Husband accounting lecture to feature Christine Botosan
The Mike Ilitch School of Business Department of Accounting will present the George R. Husband Distinguished Lecture, delivered by Christine Botosan, on Friday, April 3, at 2 p.m. in the Ilitch School’s Lear Auditorium. Botosan, a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, will give a lecture titled "Path to a Conceptual Framework."
Botosan is a member of the Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB). Previously, she was the Dolores Dore Eccles Presidential Endowed Chair in Ethical Financial Reporting at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business, where she also served as the associate dean of graduate affairs. Prior to joining the FASB in 2016, Botosan was a prolific researcher whose work focused on financial accounting and reporting issues, including the impact of disclosure on an entity’s cost of capital. Since joining the FASB, she has continued to work on issues related to the development of a conceptual framework for financial reporting. Botosan has been honored with the American Accounting Association Competitive Manuscript Award and the American Accounting Association Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award. She is a Certified Valuation Analyst and a Chartered Professional Accountant of Canada. Botosan holds a B.B.A. from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
The George R. Husband Lecture is convened by the Wayne State University Mike Ilitch School of Business. Husband was an accounting educator and a leader in his field. His former students and admirers thought so highly of him that they endowed a professorship, scholarship and annual Distinguished Lecture Series in his memory nearly 40 years after his untimely death in 1958.
The program is open to the public at no charge. RSVP by calling 313-577-4640.
