Professor of Accounting
Phone: 903.566.7433
Email: mfischer@uttyler.edu
Building: COB 350.19
Department: Accounting
Mary Fischer
Degrees
- Ph.D. University of Connecticut
- M.A. University of Connecticut
- B.B.A. University of Connecticut
Biography
Mary L. Fischer currently serves as a full professor in Accounting for the Soules
College of Business. Dr. Fischer has published over eighty research papers regarding
cash flow recognition, financial accounting, accounting education, auditing and financial
management of not-for-profit organizations, sustainability reporting, and oil and
gas sector financial management, and is a frequent local and national seminar speaker
regarding accounting pedagogy, and GAAP updates for FASB and GASB reporting. She
is the co-author of an advanced accounting text published by Wiley Publication.
Her research has appeared in Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting, Critical
Perspectives on Accounting, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accounting and Public
Policy, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, Internal Auditing,
Oil, Gas & Energy Quarterly, the Journal of Accounting Education, and the Government
Accounting Journal, among other national and international journals. She has presented
papers at numerous conferences, including the American Accounting Association, Decision
Science Institute, and Association for Research on (/) Get to Know UT Tyler Nonprofit
Organizations and Voluntary Action.
Dr. Fischer is the past president of Southwest Decision Science Institute, Southwest
American Accounting Association, and the American Accounting Association Government
and Nonprofit Section. She is also the past president of the Federation of Business
Disciplines, an organization of business school faculty with over 5,000 members throughout
the Southwestern United States. Dr. Fischer serves as an advisor to the Financial
Accounting Standards Board, Government Accounting Standards Board, and an array of
not-for-profit organizations nationwide.
Dr. Fischer was awarded the UT Tyler President’s Scholarly Achievement. She was named
the outstanding accounting educator by the East Texas Society of Certified Public
Accountants as well as the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants and the
Southwestern American Accounting Association. She was awarded the Daniel D. Robinson
and the Professional Development and Scholarship awards by the National Association
of College and University Business Officers for her outstanding contributions to the
college and university national sector. She recently received the American Accounting
Association Government and Nonprofit Section Lifetime Achievement Award for her GNP
contribution and scholarship. She is a Certified Government Financial Manager and
a member of the East Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Teaching and Research Interests
- Financial accounting recognition and reporting
- Nonprofit organization financial management
- Non-financial operating measures