Billie M. Cunningham
Teaching Professor and Ernst & Young Teaching Scholar
School of Accountancy
Office Hours:
W: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, and by appointment
Phone: (573) 882-5665
E-Mail: cunningham@missouri.edu
Teaching Professor and Ernst & Young Teaching Scholar. B.B.A. (1968), M.B.A. (1975), and Ph.D. (1980) from the University of North Texas. Professor Cunningham has received numerous awards for outstanding teaching, most recently the 2010-2011 Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business Faculty Member of the Year, the 2009-2010 Teacher of the Year awarded by the Kansas City Alumni of the Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business, the 2008-2009 Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business Faculty Member of the Year, a 2009 Grant-Thornton Teaching Excellence Award, a 2007 Williams-Keepers LLC Teaching Excellence Award in Accountancy, and the 2005-06 Raymond F. and Mary A. O'Brien Excellence in Teaching Award. Professor Cunningham is the lead author (with Professor Loren Nikolai) of Accounting: Information for Business Decisions (Third Edition textbook: Cengage Learning). In addition to conducting numerous workshops around the country on the use of writing exercises in accounting classes and on incorporating creative and critical thinking strategies into the accounting classroom, Professor Cunningham has published articles in professional journals, including Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting Education, Accounting Education: A Journal of Theory, Practice and Research, The CPA Journal, Research in Accounting Regulation, Management Accounting, Essays in Economic and Business History, and The Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice. She recently received the 2010 Outstanding Accounting Education Research Award from the Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Section of the American Accounting Association. She serves on the Editorial Board of Issues in Accounting Education and the Editorial Advisory Board of Accounting Education: An International Journal. Professor Cunningham is a member of the American Accounting Association (AAA), in which she has served as Vice-President and member of the Executive Committee, as well as Chair of both the Teaching & Curriculum Section and the Two-Year College Section. She currently serves on the AAA Accounting Education Advisory Committee. In 2011, Professor Cunningham was inducted into the Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Hall of Honor. She also serves as Vice-President of the Missouri Association of Accounting Educators. Professor Cunningham has chaired or served on numerous Federation of Schools of Accountancy committees. She chaired the AICPA Core Competency Best Practices Task Force and served on the AICPA Pre-Certification Education Executive Committee. Professor Cunningham is an aerobics enthusiast and avid and slowly-improving golfer.
Publications
Introductory Accounting as Theatre: A Look behind the Scenes of Large-Lecture Production, Issues in Accounting Education, Vol. 26, No. 4, November 2011.
Accounting Information for Business Decisions by Billie Cunningham, Loren Nikolai, and John Bazley (South-Western Publishing Company, 3rd ed., 2010), Textbook.
Using Action Research to Improve Learning and the Classroom Learning Environment, Issues in Accounting Education, Vol. 23, No. 1, February 2008.
Critical Thought on Critical Thinking Research, with S.K. Wolcott, C.P. Baril, D.R. Fordham, and K. St. Pierre, Journal of Accounting Education, Vol. 20, 2002, pp. 85 - 103.
Energizing Your Teaching: A View from Deep in the Trenches, Issues in Accounting Education, May, 1999.
Critical Thinking in the Public Accounting Profession: Aptitudes and Attitudes, with C.P. Baril, D.R. Fordham, R.L. Gardner, and S.K. Wolcott, Journal of Accounting Education, Vol. 16, No. 3, October 1998.
Using an Electronic Tutorial to Support Team Learning in Advanced Tax Accounting, with J. Parker, Issues in Accounting Education, Vol. May, 1998.
How to Restructure an Accounting Course to Enhance Critical Thinking, Accounting Education: A Journal of Theory, Practice & Research, Vol. 1, 1996.
Independent, Creative, & Critical Thinking 101, Accounting: A Newsletter for Educators, Vol. Vol. 2, No. 1, 1992.
The Impact of Writing in Learning Accounting, The Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, Special Edition on College Teaching and Learning: Part I, July-Sept. 1991.
The Write Addition to Principles of Accounting Classes, Prentice Hall Accounting Forum, November 1991.
Trust or Antitrust for the Profession of Accountancy?, with Rasoul H. Tondkar and Edward Coffman, Research in Accounting Regulation, 1990.
The Telecourse as an Alternative to a Traditional In-Class Accounting Course, Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1988.
New Developments in Summary Annual Reports, with Rasoul H. Tondkar and Edward Coffman, The CPA Journal, September 1988.
Blind Faith or Antitrust: A History of the Relationship Between the Learned Professions and Federal Antitrust Regulation, Essays in Economic and Business History, l986.
Accounting: Principles and Applications, Fifth Edition with Horace Brock and Charles Palmer (McGraw-Hill, l986), Textbook.
Financial Accounting: Principles and Applications, Fifth Edition; Horace Brock, Charles Palmer, and Billie Cunningham; (McGraw-Hill, l986), Textbook.
Accounting: Basic Principles, Fifth Edition; Horace Brock, Charles Palmer, and Billie Cunningham; (McGraw-Hill, l986), Textbook.
Users of Financial Reporting: An Investigation, with Duane R. Milano, Management Accounting, December 1983.