Robert Jay Swieringa (born 1942) was the ninth

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and is a

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of the

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. He also served as an elected member to

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. Swieringa earned his BA from Augustana College in 1964. He then attended the

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and earned his

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in 1965. He concluded his studies with a PhD in

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from the

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in 1969. Swieringa had a distinguished teaching career, holding

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or tenure track positions at the

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, the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, and

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. as well as visiting positions at

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. He served on the

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, from 1986 to 1996. Swieringa also played a governing role in graduate business school admissions as a chair of the board of directors of the

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, which provides the

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Selected works

*''Toward Reporting Comprehensive Income'' (with L. Todd Johnson and Cheri L. Reither),

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(1995). *''Management Accounting and Action'' (with

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), in Readings in Accounting for Management Control (1983). *''An Assessment of Laboratory Experiments in Accounting'' (with Karl E. Weick),

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(1982). *''Organizational Views of Transfer Pricing'' (with John H. Waterhouse), Accounting, Organizations and Society (1982). *''An Accounting Change and Information Processing Changes'' (with Thomas R. Dyckman and Robert E. Hoskin), Accounting, Organizations and Society (1982). *''The Relationship between Managers' Budget-Oriented Behavior and Selected Attitude, Position, Size, and Performance Measures'' (with Robert H. Moncur), Journal of Accounting Research (1972).

References

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