James E. Sorensen, Ph.D., CPA
Professor of Accountancy, School of Accountancy, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver
Piccinati Endowed Professor, John J. Gilbert Endowed Professor of Accountancy, University Scholar and Teacher
Expertise
Management accounting (including strategic cost management), governmental accounting, nonprofit accounting, financial management of nonprofit organizations, cost determination and rate-setting and cost-effectiveness for human service (including behavioral health) organizations, survey research skills.
Biography At-a-Glance
James E. Sorensen is professor of accountancy in the School of Accountancy in the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver, a position he has held since 1972. His behavioral health research and publications includes cost-determination and rate-setting as well as cost-outcome and cost-effectiveness of human service programs. Sorensen's work is often cited in the cost assessments of human service agencies. His clients include federal, state and local behavioral health agencies and providers in every state in the United States as well as Puerto Rico, Guam and the Republic of Palau.
His management accounting research and publications includes the development and teaching of management accounting curricula and the analysis of careers in public and management accounting. He has worked closely with the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) He has received the IMA?s Bulloch Innovations in Management Accounting Education Award and the Brummet Distinguished Academicians Service Award.
Sorensen has published more than 100 articles and over a dozen chapters and texts. His research has appears in over 20 leading journals.
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Education
- Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Accounting, Economics, Sociology
- MBA, University of Denver, Accounting
- BSBA, University of Denver, Business
