Adrian Fitzsimons

Professor of Accounting and Taxation

Professor Adrian P. Fitzsimons, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research and is currently registered as a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Certified Management Accountant. He has served as Chair of the Department of Accounting and Taxation since 1998. Professor Fitzsimons has published 110 articles in such peer-reviewed journals as: The CPA Journal, Bank Accounting & Finance, Commercial Lending Review, The Practical Accountant, Review of Business, National Public Accountant, The Journal of Accounting, Finance and Taxation for Business, and The Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance.  He has authored a book on auditing and has written ten chapters in various books and two monographs. He has presented his research at various international and regional conferences and has been published in the proceedings of those forums.

 

Professor Fitzsimons obtained his audit experience at Touche Ross & Company (now Deloitte & Touche) and the firm of Robert Irving, CPA.  He was engaged by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) as a consultant to assist the Stockbrokerage and Investment Banking Committee in writing the Audit and Accounting Guide: Brokers and Dealers in Securities.  He was also a member of the Commodity Guide Task Force of the Stockbrokerage and Investment Banking Committee where he assisted in the preparation of the Practice Aid: For Audits of Future Commission Merchants, Introducing Brokers, and Commodity Pools (i.e., level "d" GAAP).  He was a member of the Stockbrokerage and Investment Banking Committee from 1998 until the AICPA reorganized its committee structure in 2000.  He was a member of several committees of the New York State Society of CPAs including the Commodities Committee, the Securities Industry Committee, and the SEC Committee and is President-elect of the Queens Chapter of the NYSSCPAs. 

Professor Fitzsimons was retained as a consultant by Deloitte & Touche between 1986 and 2004 where he served  in their financial services audit practice in various consulting capacities.  He serves on the board of the New York Metropolitan area chapter of ISACA and as a member of the Finance Committee of Notre Dame Parish since 1997 and has been the recipient of the University's Faculty Achievement Award, annual Faculty Merit Awards (from 1991 up to and including 2002) and annual Faculty Research Awards (from 1997 up to and including 2005).

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E-mail: fitzsima@stjohns.edu