FASB In Depth Faculty

Faculty

Larry P. Schumann, CPA
Larry P. Schumann, CPA, joined the faculty of Westminster College in July 2007. Larry retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in June 2007 after 20 years as an audit partner. Larry was the head of the firm's Salt Lake City Audit Practice. Previously, Larry was the Managing Partner of Coopers & Lybrand's offices in Houston and Salt Lake City. He also served as the Vice President, Finance of a large manufacturing company. Throughout his career, Larry has authored and taught various FASB/APB review and update courses. His entertaining style and insight has consistently impressed participants in both the Colorado Society of CPAs and SEC Institute conferences where he has been voted "best speaker." Our original and highly-acclaimed FASB/GAAP In Depth Workshop is Larry's creation as well as our FIN46(R), SFAS 123(R) and SFAS 109 workshops. Larry is a graduate of Duke University and has been an Adjunct Professor of Accounting at the University of Utah and Seattle University. Larry also provides accounting advisory services through The Cadence Group, which is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Herschel Mann, PhD, CPA is the KPMG Professor of Accounting at Texas Tech University. Professor Mann is the co-author of an intermediate accounting text and of PassMatrix’s (formerly MicroMash's) CPA Review Reference manual. He is the co-author of the continuing professional education (CPE) manual, Accounting and Auditing Update. He also is the author of MicroMash's software CPE courses, Accounting for Income Taxes, and the co-author of six other software CPE courses: FASB Update, Accounting for Derivatives and Hedging Activities, Accounting for Derivatives and Activities, Accounting for Share-Based Compensation Plans, Analyzing and Interpreting Financial Statements, and Business Combinations. He also has published articles in several journals. Herschel has received a number of teaching awards. In 1994 he was the Texas Society of CPAs' nominee for the AICPA Outstanding Educator Award. He also has received at Texas Tech University the university-wide Amoco Outstanding Teacher Award, the President's Distinguished Teaching Award, the College of Business Administration's Outstanding Teacher Award, and the Area of Accounting's Outstanding Professor Award. In addition, he has twice been selected by Mortar Board and Omicron Delta Kappa as one of the five Outstanding Professors at Texas Tech.

George M. Wilson, CPA, is Vice President and Principal of the SEC Institute, where he teaches courses in SEC reporting and related areas. He is the author of the Institute’s Advanced SEC Reporting Skills, Implementing SOX 404 Internal Control Reporting, SOX 404: Climbing the Learning Curve!, Understanding SFAS 133, Applying SFAS 109: Accounting for Income Taxes and Accounting for Business Combinations and Goodwill courses. Before joining the SEC Institute George was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Accounting at the University of Saint Thomas, in Saint Paul, MN. He was director of the University's Accounting MBA program and also taught in the undergraduate accounting department. He has received the AICPA’s Outstanding Discussion Leader Award and the Minnesota State Society’s R. Glenn Berryman Award. George also served as Senior Vice President, Operations of Security Financial, where he managed the organization’s initial public offering, and as a senior manager with KPMG.