Thomas L. Albright

Specialty Areas:

Managerial and cost accounting, strategic cost management.

Education:

University of North Carolina at Greensboro (B.F.A.), California State University, Stanislaus (M.B.A.), University of Tennessee (Ph.D.).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations:

Tom Albright is the J. Reese Phifer Faculty Fellow and Professor of Accounting at the Culverhouse School of Accountancy. His teaching and research interests are in the area of cost management.

Dr. Albright has published 26 articles in scholarly and applied journals including: the Journal of Managerial Research (JMAR), Accounting Horizons, Behavioral Research in Accounting (BRIA), Management Accounting Research, Journal of Cost Management, Journal of Managerial Issues, Management Accounting, and The Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance.

Dr. Albright also has published a variety of teaching cases based on his work with industry. Two teaching cases were published as part of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Professor/Practitioner Case Development Program. Two additional teaching cases were published by the Institute of Management Accounting (IMA) and used by the organization for its National Student Case Competition. The IMA also awarded Dr. Albright the Certificate of Merit for his work in the area of quality costs in a manufacturing environment.

Together with Rob Ingram at The University of Alabama, Bruce Baldwin from Arizona State West, and John Hill from Indiana University, he has authored textbooks titled, Managerial Accounting: Information for Decisions and Accounting: Information for Decisions, Financial Accounting: Information for Decisions and Accounting: Managing Business Information. He was presented the MBA or Executive MBA Professor of the Year Award on nine occasions since joining the faculty in 1990. In 2005, The University of Alabama National Alumni Association presented him with the Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award.

Dr. Albright has served on the board of directors for the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA) and has co-chaired the Management Accounting Section mid-year conference. He has received grants, public and private, to support his work in the area of cost management, including federal support of his research efforts to determine the economic viability of high-speed vessel capable of servicing the middle market between air cargo and conventional ocean freighters. He also has consulted with a variety of manufacturing firms in the United States and Mexico in the area of Activity-based Costing.