Michael Kraten

- Director of Accounting Program Initiatives

Bio

Michael Kraten, PhD, CPA is the Director of Accounting Program Initiatives at the University of Houston. He designs and teaches the graduate elective courses in sustainability accounting and entrepreneurship accounting, and is also developing innovations for financial accounting courses that apply Artificial Intelligence capabilities to remote learning activities. He serves on the Board of Directors of TXCPA Houston, the Leadership Council of the TXCPA, the Editorial Advisory Board of the CPA Journal, and the Advisory Board of the Center for Professional Accounting Practices at Fordham University. He is deeply involved with several development initiatives that address the "pipeline" challenge of attracting students to the Accounting profession. He is also a management consultant who maintains specialties in valuation, risk management, business modeling, decision analysis, forensic analysis, educational gaming, and strategic planning. He began his career in the assurance and consulting practices of Deloitte. After serving as a Consulting Partner at BDO, then the sixth largest global accounting firm, he co-founded a series of boutique consulting practices. In academia, he previously served as Professor of Accounting and Chair of Accounting, Economics, and Finance programs at Houston Baptist University. Earlier in his career, he taught for the Universities of Connecticut and Massachusetts in the U.S., Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and elsewhere. He has also presented his work at Dartmouth College, Deloitte University, Harvard Law School, Johns Hopkins University, and Yale University.
 He has authored or co-authored more than thirty peer reviewed articles in the Journal of Banking and Finance, the International Journal of Accounting, Research in Accounting Regulation, the CPA Journal, the Journal of Financial Planning, and elsewhere. In addition, he has authored numerous book chapters, newsletters, and podcasts for Wiley, Routledge, Henry Stewart, Kaplan, and others. He also authored a book on Business Planning and Entrepreneurship for Business Expert Press.
 From 2014 to 2023, the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) ranked him in the All-Time Top 10% of global researchers. His top-ranked article, entitled "Libor Manipulation," was published several months before the global banking scandal exploded in the public business press.
 He earned a PhD in Behavioral Accounting from the University of Connecticut and a MPPM in Public and Private Management from Yale University. He also earned a BBA in Public Accounting from Baruch College, CUNY.

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