Charles Davis

Charles Davis

Adjunct Professor, Business and Accounting

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Charles Davis is currently Adjunct Professor at Furman University and Professor of Accounting at the Hankamer School of Business of Baylor. He has taught undergraduate, graduate and executive courses in managerial accounting, accounting information systems, and information systems auditing, and he has developed and taught online as well as traditional courses. While at Baylor, Dr. Davis served as Department Chair for ten years and Director of Graduate Accounting Programs. He has also served as an adjunct professor in the Clemson University MBA program.

Dr. Davis earned his Ph.D. in accounting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also holds an MBA from University of Richmond and a BBA in accounting from The College of William and Mary, and is a CPA (Virginia). Prior to pursing his Ph.D., Dr. Davis worked in various accounting and consulting roles for Reynolds Metals Company, Coopers & Lybrand, and Investors Savings Bank, all in Richmond, Virginia.

Dr. Davis is co-author of Managerial Accounting, an innovative textbook now in its third edition published by John Wiley & Sons, and his research has been published in a number of journals including Accounting Horizons, Advances in Accounting, Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, Advances in Accounting Education, The CPA Journal, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accountancy, Journal of Information Systems, and Today’s CPA. He has received The Institute of Management Accountants’ Lybrand Gold Medal and three Certificates of Merit for his publications in Management Accounting and Strategic Finance. Professor Davis currently serves on the Editorial Board of Strategic Finance and is a former member of the Editorial Board of Issues in Accounting Education. ​

Honors

  • Institute of Management Accountants Certificate of Merit, 2003, 2004, 2013
  • American Accounting Association ABO Section Outstanding Service Award, 2005
  • Institute of Management Accountant Lybrand Gold Medal, 1999
  • American Accounting Association, Auditing Section Outstanding Dissertation Award, 1992
  • American Accounting Association New Faculty Consortium Fellow, 1992
  • American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 1990
  • AICPA Doctoral Dissertation Grant, 1990
  • Maurice W. Lee Award for Teaching Excellence by a Ph.D. Student (UNC-CH), 1990

Education

  • Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • M.B.A., University of Richmond
  • B.B.A., The College of William and Mary

Publications

  • C. E. Davis (Forthcoming). Four Design Choices That Can Make or Break Your Slide Deck, Strategic Finance.
  • C. E. Davis (Forthcoming). Ten Tips to Improve your Presentation Slide Deck, Strategic Finance.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2017). Managerial Accounting (3rd ed.), Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2017). Solutions Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 3rd Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2017). Instructor's Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 3rd Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2017). PowerPoint Slides to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 3rd Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2017). Narrated PowerPoint Slides to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 3rd Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • C. E. Davis and R. K. Hurtt. (2016). Exercising Professional Skepticism: How to Behave Like a Skeptic, Today’s CPA. 44(3, November/December): 24-29.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2014). Managerial Accounting (2nd ed.), Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2014). Solutions Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 2nd Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2014). Instructor's Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 2nd Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2014). PowerPoint Slides to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 2nd Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2014). Narrated PowerPoint Slides to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 2nd Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • C. E. Davis and A. Herrera. (2014). Closing the Generation Gap: Tips for Interviewing Millennials, Today’s CPA 42(2, September/October): 32-34.
  • C. E. Davis and A. Herrera. (2013). Preparing for the Job Interview: The Interviewer’s Responsibility. Strategic Finance XCIV(9, March): 47-51. (Awarded IMA Certificate of Merit).
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2012). A Potential Resurgence of Outsourcing. The CPA Journal LXXXII(10): 56-61.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2012). Managerial Accounting (1st ed.), Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2012). Solutions Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 1st Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2012). Instructor's Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 1st Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2012). PowerPoint Slides to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 1st Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2012). Narrated PowerPoint Slides to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 1st Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • G. Chevis, C. E. Davis, and R. K. Hurtt. (2011). Backpack to Briefcase: The Transition from Student to Accounting Professional. Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations, 12: 33-52.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2011). Managerial Accounting (Preliminary ed.), Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2011). Instructor's Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting Preliminary Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2011). PowerPoint Slides to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting Preliminary Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2011). Solutions Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting Preliminary Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • D. L. Chesser, C. E. Davis, and T. S. Thomasson. (2007). To Roth or Not to Roth. Journal of Accountancy, 203(2): 64-67.
  • C. E. Davis, E. Davis, B. Anderson, and M. Twomey. (2004). How to Create an Activity Management Program That Lasts. Strategic Finance, LXXXV(8): 40-45. (Awarded IMA Certificate of Merit).
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (2003). Garden Patch Foods: Analyzing the Purchasing-through-Payables Cycle. Issues in Accounting Education, November: 369-383.
  • C. E. Davis, W. P. Keuer, C. Clements. (2003). Web-based Reporting: A View for the Future. Strategic Finance, LXXXV(3): 44-49. (Awarded IMA Certificate of Merit).
  • C. E. Davis, W. P. Keuer, C. Clements. (2002). Web-based Reporting. The CPA Journal, November: 28-34.
  • C. E. Davis. (2002). The Field of Accounting: Bridging the Distance Between the Classroom and Practice. Baylor Business Review 19(2): 12-13.
  • C. E. Davis. (2000). Electronic Evidence. AIPCA Top Ten Techs Web site, http://toptentechs.com/techsemerg/Issue4/.
  • C. E. Davis. (2000). Electronically-Based Business and Financial Reporting. AICPA Top Ten Techs Web site, http://toptentechs.com/issues/Issue3/.
  • B. Thomas, J. Baldwin, D. Chesser, C. E. Davis, D. Hollingsworth, and M. Robinson. (2000). Tearing Down the Stovepipes: One Program’s Experience in Designing an Integrated Accounting Core Curriculum, Advances in Accounting Education (3): 125-150.
  • C. E. Davis. (2000). Online Multimedia Accounting Review, Fort Worth, TX: The Dryden Press (computer-based training that teaches the mechanics of debits and credits and the accounting cycle);
  • E. Davis, C. E. Davis and B. Copeland. (1999). Delectable Deliveries, Inc., The Journal of Accounting Case Research 5(1): 32-37.
  • C. W. Thomas, C. E. Davis and S. L. Seaman. (1998). Quality Review, Continuing Professional Education, Experience and Substandard Performance: An Empirical Study, Accounting Horizons 12(4): 340-362.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (1998). Audit Task and Audit Methodology as Determinants of Auditors’ Elicitation of Alternative Knowledge Organization Structures, Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research 1: 101-121.
  • C. E. Davis, E. Davis and L. A. Moore. (1998). Outsourcing the Procurement-through-Payable Process, Management Accounting LXXX(1): 38-44 (awarded Lybrand Gold Medal for outstanding article of the year).
  • C. E. Davis. (1998). The Internet, in Management of an Accounting Practice Handbook, Chapter 212, pp. 39-50. New York: AICPA.
  • E. Blocher, R. Bouwman, and C. E. Davis. (1997). Learning from Experience in Performing Analytical Procedures, Training Research Journal 3: 59-79.
  • C. E. Davis, E. Davis and D. Murphy. (1997). An Investigation of the Impact of Market Discipline on Individuals’ Price Revisions, Advances in Accounting 15: 125-168.
  • C. E. Davis. (1997). Accounting is Like a Box of Chocolates: A Lesson in Cost Behavior, The Journal of Accounting Education 15(3): 307-318.
  • C. E. Davis. (1997). Experience and the Organization of Auditors’ Knowledge, Managerial Auditing Journal 12(8/9): 411-422.
  • C. E. Davis. (1997). Perceived Risks and Threats to Accounting Information Systems, The Review of Accounting Information Systems 1(4): 13-24.
  • C. E. Davis. (1997). An Assessment of Accounting Information System Security, The CPA Journal (March): 28-34.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (1996). Information Load and Consistency of Decisions, Psychological Reports 79: 279-288.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (1996). Computer Crime 101: What Every Accountant Should Know. Today’s CPA (July/August) 38-41.
  • C. E. Davis. (1996). Perceived Security Threats to Today's Accounting Information Systems: A Survey of CISAs, IS Audit & Control Journal III: 38-41.
  • C. E. Davis and E. Davis. (1996). Surfing the Internet: A CPA’s Guide to Riding the On-line Wave. Today’s CPA (January/February/March) 38-40 (Reprinted in MAP 1997 Selected Readings, AICPA).
  • C. E. Davis and M. A. Dunkel. (1995). Computing the Future of Client/Server Systems. Today’s CPA (July/August) 26-30.
  • C. E. Davis and K. Lonborg. (1993). X-Oil, Inc.: An Instructional Case in Internal Control for the Payables Cycle. Journal of Information Systems 7(2): 112-133.
  • C. E. Davis. (1993). Presentation Format, Information Load and Time Pressure Effects on the Consistent Application of a Decision Rule. In Collected Papers and Abstracts of the 1993 American Accounting Association Southwest Region Meeting.
  • E. Blocher and C. E. Davis. (1991). Presentation Format and Complexity Effects on Judgment and Recall in a Risk Analysis Task. In S. Moriarity (Ed.), Accounting Communication and Monitoring (pp. 138-157). Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma Center for Economic and Management Research.

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