Faculty/Staff Directory

Anne

Sergeant

sergeana@gvsu.edu

Professor of Accounting

3018 L. William Seidman Center

616-331-7266

• School of Accounting

• Data Management
• Managerial Accounting
• Revenue Management

Dr. Sergeant is a Professor at Grand Valley State University, where she teaches in the managerial and cost accounting areas. After receiving her PhD from the University of Arizona, she taught full-time at Iowa State and then part-time for GVSU, before returning full-time in 2008. She has published in the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance, and Wise Traditions. Her paper, Interacting Biases, Non-Normal Return Distributions and the Performance of Parametric and Bootstrap Tests for Long-Horizon Event Studies, with Arnold Cowan was one of SSRN Top-10 downloaded papers and received Best Paper Award at the Midwest Finance Association Meetings. Her recent research focuses on the costs of IT and Disaster Recovery.

• PH.D., Accounting, Finance and Econometrics, University of Arizona. "The relation between accounting earnings and stock returns: a study of firms receiving a modified audit report." (1994).
• MBA, Accounting, University of Washington. (1988).
• BS, Physical Therapy, SUNY Buffalo. (1983)

• Managerial Accounting
• Health-care Cost Accounting
• IT Cost Accounting

• Sergeant, A., Ratliff-Miller, P., Yilmaz, R. (2012). Fuzzy logic cost-volume-profit analysis to assess product life-cycle profitability under uncertainty. American Accounting Association- Midwest Region: Midwest Region Meeting.
• Sergeant, A., Ratliff-Miller, P. (2012). Alliance Healthcare Network: Using a Balanced Scorecard to Motivate Change. IMA Educational Case Journal, 5(3), TN 1-10; CS 1-6.
• Sergeant, A., Cannon, D. (2012). Auditing students learning by teaching: A cash control project. American Accounting Association, Sarasota Fl: American Accounting Association Annual Meeting

• Community, Derby Lake Association, Financial Advisor, Board Member, approximately 15 hours spent per year, Hours, elected, Regional. (January 1, 2013 - May 31, 2013).
• College, Laker Experience Day, Student Recruiter, approximately 5 hours spent per year, Hours. (March 29, 2013)