Association of Government Accountants

Advancing Government Accountability

Pacific Emerging Issues Conference 2008 Instructor

Jeanne H. Yamamura, CPA, MIM, PhD.

BIOGRAPHY

Jeanne H. Yamamura, CPA, MIM, PhD, (licensed as a CPA in California and Nevada) is an associate professor at the University of Nevada Reno where she teaches courses in auditing and accounting information systems in the College of Business Administration. In addition to her work with the University, Ms. Yamamura presents workshops in governmental accounting and reporting and professional ethics, serves as a mentor for an online CPA review course, and has provided quality control review services for local CPA firms. Ms. Yamamura brings to her classes and workshops more than twenty years of experience in public, private, and governmental accounting. She worked as an Audit Manager for Touche Ross & Co. in the N. Marianas and as a Senior Accountant for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. in San Francisco, California. She provided internal audit services for county government and for an international financial services company. She has also worked in a variety of positions ranging from Assistant Controller to Vice President of Finance in the savings and loan industry. Ms. Yamamura is currently serving as Chairman of the Nevada Society of CPAs, the first academic to hold the position in the organization's 58-year history. Ms. Yamamura received her Bachelor in Business Administration with a concentration in accounting from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California and her Master of International Management from Thunderbird, American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Arizona. Her Ph.D. in Business Administration - Accounting was received from Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. She has written articles appearing in the Journal of Accountancy, the CPA Journal, and the Internal Auditor as well as numerous academic journals.

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