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Sheila Bedford Senior Professorial Lecturer Accounting

Contact
Sheila Bedford
(202) 885-3910
KSB | Accounting/Tax
Kogod School of Business T02
Fall 2024: Virtual Office Hours Mondays 9-11 am, Tuesdays 9-11am, Wednesdays 3-5 pm and other days/times by appointment.
Zoom link posted in Canvas for students
Additional Positions at AU
MSA Program Director
Degrees
M.B.A, George Mason University; B.S. Accounting, Oklahoma Christian University

Bio
Professor Bedford teaches financial accounting, managerial accounting, intermediate accounting, corporate financial reporting at the undergraduate and graduate level. She has extensive industry accounting experience in the real estate business, and served in financial management roles with Marriott International and as the controller for a golf course developer. Her responsibilities in industry have included financial reporting and analysis, strategic planning and budgeting, implementation of accounting policies and controls, and the valuation of acquisition opportunities and financing programs. She began her career in public accounting with Ernst & Whinney.

Professor Bedford is currently serving on the Kogod Educational Policy Committee and has served on the KSB Curriculum & Assessment Committee (CAC) and as a member of the University Committee on Learning Assessment (COLA). She has served as the Chair of COLA, Chair of KSB CAC and is serving as the Kogod School of Business Representative on the Faculty Senate. She is also a member of the KSB Term Faculty Review Committee.

Professor Bedford served as the Faculty Co-Chair of the American University Middle States Commission on High Education Self-Study and is a Peer Evaluator with MSCHE.

She is a Certified Public Accountant and is a member of the Greater Washington Society of CPAs and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

She is currently serving on the GWSCPA Board of Governors Executive Committee and as an item reviewer for the AICPA FAR/BAR Content Subcommittee.

She has previously served served on the AICPA Financial Accounting & Reporting (FAR) CPA Exam subcommittee and as an item writer for the CPA Exam and a member of the AICPA National Awards Committee.

Professor Bedford is also a Registered Parliamentarian with the National Association of Parliamentarians. In addiiton, she is a lifetime member of the Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital and serves on the Virginia FBLA Foundation Board.
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Teaching

Spring 2024

  • ACCT-340 Intermediate Accounting I

  • ACCT-396 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Acctg for Global Business Ops

  • ACCT-641 Corp Fin Reprtng: Operations

Fall 2024

  • ACCT-340 Intermediate Accounting I

  • ACCT-641 Corp Fin Reprtng: Operations

2024 Term 3

  • KSB-630 Business Capitals Immersion: London: Glbl Fin Reprtng/Anlys