Mary Ann Merryman

Professor of Accounting and Chair

Contact Information:
Department of Business Administration and Economics
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 284-4501
merryman@saintmarys.edu

Teaching Interests:
My primary interests are in the areas of Auditing, Fraud Examination, Financial Accounting, and Governmental and Not-For-Profit Accounting.  During the 2006-07 academic year, I taught the following courses:

• Fraud Examination (elective course for accounting majors and business administration majors and minors)
• Intermediate Accounting II (second course in the "nuts and bolts" of financial accounting and reporting)
• Governmental and Not-For-Profit Accounting (emphasizes the differences between accounting for nonprofit organizations and accounting for business entities)
• Auditing (principles, standards, and procedures underlying the audit of financial statements)

Research and Scholarly Activities:
Elected to the Board of Trustees of Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana for a five year term, 2007-2011.

Interviewed and featured in an article in South Bend Tribune Business Weekly, November 6, 2006, titled "It's Not Your Father's Business School".

Chaired Auditing session at the Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Accounting Association in St. Louis, Missouri, April 13, 2007.

Attended the Indiana Certified Public Accountants Society Educators' Conference in Indianapolis, May 18, 2007.

Attended an Institute of Internal Auditors seminar entitled "Fraud Issues and Answers for Internal Auditors" in South Bend, May 23, 2007.

Interviewed and featured in Spotlight article in the Saint Mary's College Belles Varsity Club Newsletter recognizing my role as academic advisor to the Saint Mary's tennis team.

Attended the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association in Chicago, August 6-8, 2007.

Memberships:
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Indiana Certified Public Accountants Society

American Accounting Association

Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

Last update October, 2007