Fred Phillips

I am a Professor of Accounting at the University of Saskatchewan. I hold a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Manitoba. Before entering academe, I worked as an auditor with KPMG. My teaching and research focuses on undergraduate Financial Accounting. I am a co-author of Fundamentals of Financial Accounting, 3e, with Bob and Pat Libby, and Managerial Accounting, 1e, with Stacey Whitecotton and Bob Libby. I also write accounting education articles and instructional cases. My current projects include an ambitious instructional case for the first financial accounting course, and field and laboratory experiments examining how variations in instructor feedback affect the quality of revisions in student reports and how variations in textbook illustrations affect students’ retention and transfer of knowledge. I have had the good fortune of winning a bunch of teaching awards over the years, at both the University of Texas and the University of Saskatchewan. The highlight of these has to be the 3M National Teaching Fellowship, which I will officially receive in June 2011.

My wife (a Professor of Marketing and Rawlco Scholar of Advertising) and I have been married 22 years, and we have two fun-loving boys (ages 11 and 13). When I’m not with my family or at work, I can usually be found in the gym or relaxing with a Starbucks frappuccino.