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Accounting Professor Paul Williams Awarded Ernst & Young Faculty Research Fellowship

The Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University announces that Dr. Paul Williams, professor in the college’s Department of Accounting, has been awarded the first Ernst & Young Faculty Research Fellows Award.

The Ernst & Young Faculty Research Fellows Program was established in Poole College’s accounting department in spring 2012. The fellowship provides summer support for selected accounting faculty who have demonstrated excellent research performance over at least the past five years while at N.C. State University. This includes research publications, service on the editorial boards of scholarly journals, and other research activities. The fellowship is awarded for an initial period of three years.

“The college very much appreciates the support of Ernst & Young over the years, and especially this new commitment of support for faculty research,” said Dr. Frank Buckless, KPMG Professor and head of the Department of Accounting.

Ernst & Young’s relationship with N.C. State dates back to the late 1970s, when the Department of Accounting was established at NC State. In 1990, Ernst & Young created the Ernst & Young Development Fund to provide financial resources for student scholarships, student organizations, and faculty development. Ernst & Young currently employs approximately 100 N.C. State alumni.

“We believe that great accounting programs promote scholarship and research related to emerging accounting issues,” said Mike Constantino, office managing partner at Ernst & Young in Raleigh, N.C..

“The Poole College of Management at NC State is doing an outstanding job of educating the next generation of accounting practitioners,” Constantino said. “In addition to strong technical skills, they are very good problem solvers and understand the importance of community engagement.”

Williams joined NC State’s accounting faculty in 1985, and has focused his research in the area of accounting ethics, epistemology, and the sociology of accounting knowledge, and his research has been published in leading accounting research and practitioner journals. He teaches in the college’s undergraduate and Jenkins Master of Accounting programs. In 1999, he received the Ernst & Young Outstanding Teacher Award.

Williams resides in Cary, N.C.