Associate Professor
Melvin A. Lamboy-Ruiz is an Associate Professor who joined Georgia Southern University in 2019. He comes from Iowa State University where he taught intermediate accounting and was the faculty advisor of the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Iowa State Student Chapter. Currently, he teaches Intermediate Accounting III and Principles of Accounting I. Melvin has a Ph.D. in Management (Accounting) from Purdue University and is a Certified Public Accountant (Puerto Rico). As a result of his experience in the healthcare industry as a hospital administrator, his primary research interest is the impact of accounting information quality on socially significant outcomes in the healthcare industry. Melvin likes to open every lecture with “Let’s talk about accounting.”
Research: accounting information quality; healthcare reporting; ethics
Teaching: financial accounting
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About Melvin Lamboy-Ruiz
Melvin A. Lamboy-Ruiz is an Associate Professor who joined Georgia Southern University in 2019. He comes from Iowa State University where he taught intermediate accounting and was the faculty advisor of the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Iowa State Student Chapter. Currently, he teaches Intermediate Accounting III and Principles of Accounting I. Melvin has a Ph.D. in Management (Accounting) from Purdue University and is a Certified Public Accountant (Puerto Rico). As a result of his experience in the healthcare industry as a hospital administrator, his primary research interest is the impact of accounting information quality on socially significant outcomes in the healthcare industry. Melvin likes to open every lecture with “Let’s talk about accounting.”
Research: accounting information quality; healthcare reporting; ethics
Teaching: financial accounting
| Present | Faculty Member, Georgia Southern University ‐ School of Accountancy | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
| 2015 | Accessibility of State Data Repositories of Hospital Audited Financial Statements |
| Iowa State University | |
| Role: PI | |
| Colleague(s): Megan Elliot | |
| $750 | |
| 2015 | Effect of Flipped-Team-Based Learning Teaching Model in Intermediate Accounting Students Engagement and Learning Outcomes |
| Iowa State University, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning | |
| Colleague(s): Abhijit Rao | |
| $1,790 | |
| 2012 | ISU-HRI Workshop Proposal: Establishing a Research Team to Investigate the Potential for Personal Health Records to Support and Promote Patient-Centered Outcomes |
| Iowa State University | |
| Role: Co-investigator | |
| Colleague(s): Joey F. George, Emily J. Kohnke, and Gary E. Rosenthal | |
| $7,980 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2019 - 2020 | Reviewer, Journal of Accounting Education | 2019 | Reviewer, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems | 2017 - 2019 | Reviewer, Journal of Information Systems | 2016 - 2019 | Reviewer, AAA Annual Meeting – Government and Nonprofit Section | 2016 - 2019 | Editor, AAA Diversity Section Newsletter | 2018 | Participant, AAA Accounting Information Systems Section Meeting | 2018 | Reviewer, AAA Annual Meeting – Accounting Information Systems Section | 2018 | Discussant, AAA Annual Meeting – Accounting Information Systems Section | 2017 - 2018 | Discussant, AAA Annual Meeting – Government and Nonprofit Section | 2017 | Reviewer, AAA Managerial Accounting Section Meeting | 2016 | Reviewer, AAA Midwest Region Meeting | 2016 | Reviewer, AAA Western Region Meeting | 2015 | Discussant, AAA Midwest Region Meeting | 2015 | Participant, National Association of Black Accountants Annual Convention | 2014 | Reviewer, AAA Annual Meeting – Public Interest Section | 2014 | Reviewer, Midwest Region Meeting | 2013 - 2014 | Reviewer, AAA Annual Meeting – Government and Nonprofit Section | 2013 | Reviewer, AAA Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Midyear Meeting | 2011 | Participant, University of Texas – Austin Spring Accounting Research Conference | 2010 | Participant, AAA Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Midyear Meeting |
Honors and Awards
- ISU Ivy College of Business Research Mini-Grant, 2017, 2018
- Faculty Consortium Fellow, AAA New Faculty Consortium, 2012
- Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Texas – Austin Accounting Research Conference, 2011
- Doctoral Consortium Fellow, AAA FARS Midyear Meeting, 2010
- AICPA Minority Doctoral Fellowship, 2007 - 2011
- KPMG Minority Accounting Doctoral Scholarship, 2006 - 2011
- Purdue Doctoral Fellowship, 2006 - 2008
Courses
- Intermediate Accounting III (Undergraduate)
| 2011 | Ph.D. in Management, Purdue University | |
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| 2009 | Graduate Certificate in Applied Statistics, Purdue University | |
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| 2001 | M. in Health Services Administration, University of Puerto Rico - Medical Sciences Campus | |
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| 1996 | B.S.B.A. Accounting, Inter American University of Puerto Rico | |
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Contact Information
Parker College of Business
Georgia Southern University
PO Box 8141
Statesboro, GA 30460-8141
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