{"id":34705,"date":"2020-08-12T10:45:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T14:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=34705"},"modified":"2020-08-17T15:14:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T19:14:47","slug":"fiu-business-professor-antoinette-smith-receives-mbaf-professorship-in-accounting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2020\/08\/fiu-business-professor-antoinette-smith-receives-mbaf-professorship-in-accounting\/","title":{"rendered":"FIU Business professor Antoinette Smith receives MBAF Professorship in Accounting."},"content":{"rendered":"

Antoinette Smith<\/a>, professor in the\u00a0School of Accounting<\/a>, has been awarded the Morrison, Brown, Argiz & Farra (MBAF) Professorship in Accounting at FIU Business. She\u2019s the first woman professor at FIU Business to hold this professorship and recognition for her research productivity.\u00a0In 2019, Smith became the first Black woman to receive\u00a0full professorship in the School of Accounting at FIU Business.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs a woman of color, I believe professor Smith\u2019s recognition as the MBAF professor is a new beginning for many,\u201d said Joanne Li, dean of FIU Business. \u201cFIU Business, along with its faculty, is committed to embracing diversity and inclusiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n

The accounting firm established the MBAF Professorship, via two gifts totaling $250,000 in 2007, to support one School of Accounting professor\u2019s research and educational initiatives. MBAF is one of the nation\u2019s top 40 accounting firms and the largest Florida-based firm, and several of its top executives are FIU Business alumni.<\/p>\n

Smith, whose background includes four years as senior auditor and fraud detector at the U.S. Air Force Audit Agency, joined FIU Business in 2006 and\u00a0has taught information systems audit, forensic accounting and accounting information systems.<\/p>\n

Her research has been published\u00a0in journals such as\u00a0The Accounting Review, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Internal Auditor.<\/em><\/p>\n

Currently, Smith is the faculty advisor of the\u00a0FIU Chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) and in 2017, became one of the first AWED Faculty<\/p>\n

Fellows in the\u00a0Office to Advance Women, Equity, and Diversity (AWED)\u00a0where she was instrumental on teams that improved the lives of women and people of color.<\/p>\n

Li noted that bringing diversity to the accounting profession has been a forefront priority for many firms.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Dr. Smith being recognized as our MBAF professor, I hope that FIU Business will have an opportunity to inspire many who will come after her, students and scholars, to pursue careers in accounting or business,\u201d said Li.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Antoinette Smith, professor in the\u00a0School of Accounting, has been awarded the Morrison, Brown, Argiz & Farra (MBAF) Professorship in Accounting at FIU Business. She\u2019s the first woman professor at FIU Business to hold this professorship and recognition for her research productivity.\u00a0In 2019, Smith became the first Black woman to receive\u00a0full professorship in the School of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":34707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[158,4147,4641,2388],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34709,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34705\/revisions\/34709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}