We are very pleased to share with you the wonderful news which was received recently from the American Accounting Association (AAA) that Dr. Mahendra Gujarathi has been chosen to receive the 2018 Outstanding Accounting Educator Award. This AAA award, which is sponsored by the PricewaterhouseCoopers Foundation, is presented to individuals whose career contributions include educational innovation, excellence in teaching, publications, research guidance to graduate students and significant involvement in professional and academic societies and activities. Professor Gujarathi, who is the Rae D. Anderson Professor of Accountancy, has been a member of the Bentley faculty for nearly 30 years. He has published more than 40 articles during his career and he is ranked, in a recent BYU survey, among the top five most frequent contributing authors of articles in accounting education journals. In being recognized to receive this AAA award, Mahendra Gujarathi joins a distinguished list of teacher/scholars from such R-1 institutions as Stanford University (Mary Barth - 2017 Winner), University of Rochester (Jerold Zimmerman - 2016 Winner), The University of North Carolina (Wayne Landsman - 2014 Winner), and Yale University (Shyam Sunder - 2013 Winner).
Earlier this year, Mahendra was awarded by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), and EQUIS-accrediting body, the best case prize for his case, Himachal Fertilizer Corporation, in the "Indian Management Issues and Opportunities" category. He also was awarded by EFMD the best case prize for his case study, Wells Fargo: Setting the Stagecoach Thundering Again in the "Responsible Leadership" category.