Department of Business Administration - Cedarville University

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Sarah Smith, Associate Professor of Accounting

Sarah Smith

Biography

Dr. Sarah Smith has been a professor of Accounting at Cedarville University since 1980. She has participated in the development of the DBA from a relatively small department to an ACBSP accredited department of significance within the university and the arena of Christian Business Education. Currently her main teaching area is Financial Accounting, the building block of the accounting major. A secondary interest is accounting for governments and nonprofit entities. She enjoys curriculum development and trying new technology in the classroom, such as the use of audience response devices and the introduction of QuickBooks into the classroom setting.

Dr. Smith, her husband Barry, and her two mostly grown sons, Wes and Owen, live in Cedarville and enjoy many aspects of residing in a small town. God has worked in their family in unusual ways in the last few years, including the loss of a third son, to affirm her commitment to serving God in any way He brings into her life.

 

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My Calling

God blessed me by putting me in a family committed to Christian Education at all levels. I am happy to combine this commitment to Christian education with my love of accounting by teaching at the university level. The discipline of accounting involves understanding and processing financial information, preparing reports, and then communicating the information to others for decision making purposes. Christian young people find in accounting a unique opportunity to practice servant leadership.

Christ said He was the Truth. Living a life of integrity pleases Him. Christ’s life was an example of adhering to principles rather than to a list of rules. The theory of accounting, in its conceptual framework and ethical stands, allows a Christian accountant to integrate these values. In practice, there are many opportunities to let personal testimony shine to the world as an accountant prepares reports, makes decisions, and explains recommendations to management and others. This is a main reason why I enjoy teaching accounting and why God has enabled me to continue teaching for over 30 years in the field.

Interests

  • Adoption and adoptive families
  • Students with disabilities
  • Ministering to women who struggle with unique family situations
  • Reading mysteries
  • Cats

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