Board of Advisors
IAAER Past President

Belverd E. Needles, Jr., Ph.D. CPA, CMA
Wicklander Fellow in Business Ethics
Ernst & Young Distinguished Professor of Accounting
DePaul University
School of Accountancy & MIS
1 E Jackson Blvd Ste 6000
Chicago, Illinois 60604-2287
USA
E-mail: bneedles@depaul.edu

Belverd E. Needles, Jr. received BBA and MBA degrees from Texas Tech University and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. He teaches financial accounting and auditing at DePaul University, where he is an internationally recognized expert in international accounting and education. He has published in leading journals and is the author or editor of more than 20 books and monographs. His current research relates to international financial reporting, performance measurement, and corporate governance of high performance companies in the US, Europe, India, and Australia. His textbooks, most recently Financial Accounting (11^th ed.) and International Financial Reporting Standards: an Introduction (2^nd ed.) are used throughout the world and received many awards, including the McGuffey Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association.

Active in many academic and professional organizations, he is vice-chair of the IAAER Board of Advisors, Vice-President-Education of the American Accounting Association and President of the CPA Endowment Fund of Illinois.  He serves on the Consultative Group to the United Nations Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards on Accounting and Reporting (ISAR). He also serves on the Board of Directors and Chair of the Audit Committee of Ziegler Companies, Inc., a boutique capital markets and financial services company.

 

He is the past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Illinois CPA Society and past-president of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER). He served as the elected U.S. representative to the European Accounting Association, chair of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association, director of continuing education for the American Accounting Association, and president of the Federation of Schools of Accountancy. He served as chair of the Academic and Career Development Executive Committee and on the Information Technology Executive Committee of the American Institute of CPAs. He served as the United States representative on the Education Committee of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and on the Consultative Group of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC).

He has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Texas Tech University, the Illinois CPA Society Outstanding Educator Award and its Life-Time Achievement Award, the Joseph A. Silvoso Faculty Award of Merit from the Federation of Schools of Accountancy, the Ledger & Quill Award of Merit, and the Ledger & Quill Teaching Excellence Award. He was named Educator of the Year by the American Institute of CPAs, Accountant of the Year for Education by the national honorary society Beta Alpha Psi, and Outstanding International Accounting Educator by the American Accounting Association. He has received the Excellence in Teaching Award from DePaul University.