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Dr. Eric Bostwick

Biography

Dr. Eric D. Bostwick, Professor of Accounting, has a broad, active research agenda with publications related to financial accounting standards such as goodwill, lease capitalization and fair value; ethics, ethical blind spots, and professional affiliation bias; assurance of learning; and the review of the financial records of a small bank that survived the Great Depression.

He has authored or co-authored articles for publications such as “Accounting Horizons,” “Journal of Accounting,” “Auditing and Finance,” “Accounting Historians Journal,” “Journal of Business Ethics Education,” “Organization Management Journal,” “Christian Business Academy Review” and “Journal of Finance and Accounting.”

Bostwick has extensive experience in academic administration, having served as the associate dean for the UWF College of Business and as interim dean during a successful dean search. He also served as assistant dean and dean of business at his prior institution, Pensacola Christian College, and he has co-presented the AACSB Assurance of Learning I seminar.

Bostwick finds the greatest fulfillment in teaching, and his current teaching focuses are financial accounting, accounting theory and data analytics. He has also given faculty development sessions on becoming a more effective classroom teacher and on using technology in teaching. He was awarded the Teaching Excellence award at his former institution, and he has earned both the Student Government Association Distinguished Teaching Award and the University Faculty Excellence in Teaching award since joining UWF in 2010. He holds active CPA (AL) and CGMA licenses.

Keywords: leases, lease accounting, goodwill, cash flows, fair value accounting, Compustat adjustments, affiliation bias, ethics, teaching