Henri Akono
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Henri Akono, Ph.D., is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Accounting at the Maine Business School (MBS). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research interests include capital market audits, executive compensation, analyst forecasts and recommendations, and others. His papers have been published in accounting and finance journals such as Accounting Horizons, Accounting and Business Research, Review of Accounting and Finance, Advances in Accounting, Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance, American Journal of Accounting and Finance, Journal of Accounting and Finance, and Internal Auditing. His teaching interests include Auditing, Managerial Accounting, and Financial Reporting. He has also co-authored a chapter on audit fees and production models in the Routledge Companion to Auditing. Dr. Akono previously held several roles in the University of Maine Faculty Senate, including chair, president, and vice president.
Awards
Maine Business School – Online Course Development Award, Summer 2019
Maine Business School – Research Funds, Summer 2019
Maine Business School – Salgo Research Funds, Summer 2018
Maine Business School – Research Award, Spring 2017
AAA Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Lake Tahoe, CA. 2009
Beta Gamma Sigma, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2006
Graduate Merit Award, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2005
Service Work / Consulting
Peer reviewer for academic journals
- Review of Accounting and Finance
- Applied Economics
- Accounting Horizons
- Accounting Research Journal
- Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research
American Accounting Association (AAA)
- Reviewer, AAA Northeast meetings, 2017-2019
- Backup moderator, AAA Northeast meeting, 2019
- Discussant, AAA Northeast meetings 2017-2018
- Member of engagement subcommittee, AAA Northeast meeting, 2017
- Reviewer, AAA annual meetings, 2011-present
Maine Business School
- Current member: Undergraduate Curriculum and Learning Committee
- Current member: Tenure & Reappointment Committee
- Current member: Policy & Advisory Committee
- Member: Ad Hoc Committee on Three weeks MBS classes, Spring 2020
- Acting Chair: Assurance of Learning Committee, Spring 2020
- Search Committee Chair: HAF Accounting Faculty, Spring 2019
- Search Committee Chair: undergraduate Accounting Faculty, Spring 2019
- Member: Executive Committee, Spring 2019
- Member: Student Alumni and Affairs Committee, Fall 2018
- Member: Ad Hoc Ethics Committee, Fall 2018
- Member: Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Fall 2016 – Summer 2018
- Member: Information Technology Committee (MBS), Fall 2014 – Summer 2016
University of Maine
- Current: Faculty Senate MBS representative, 1st term until Spring 2023
- Reviewer: UMaine Concept papers, November 2019
- Member: University Research Council, Fall 2017 – Spring 2019
- Member: Executive Committee of University Research Council, Spring 2017
Areas of Expertise
Auditing
Capital Market Audits
Corporate Governance
Cost Accounting
Executive Compensation
Financial Accounting
Managerial Accounting
Education
M.S., Finance, Rochester Institute of Technology (2006)
M.S., Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics, North Dakota State University (2005)
B.S., Banking and Finance, University of Buea, Cameroon (2003)
