Steve Albrecht is a professor emeritus of the Marriott School of Management at BYU and is currently the Dr. Jay H. Price, Jr./Arthur Andersen Endowed Professor of Accountancy at Utah State University. A certified public accountant, certified internal auditor, and certified fraud examiner, Steve has been a professor at the University of Illinois, Stanford University, BYU and USU. Steve received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University and his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin. While a professor, Steve has been highly involved in the business world, including consulting with over 100 companies, being an expert witness in 39 major fraud cases including Enron, Adelphia, Cendant, and Tyco and serving on fourteen corporate boards of directors.
Steve has had many leadership positions in academia and the profession, including being associate dean of the Marriott School and director of the School of Accountancy at BYU, president of the American Accounting Association (the organization of accounting professors in the U.S.), president of the 100,000-member Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and a trustee for the two top accounting rule-making bodies in the U.S. Steve is the author or co-author of over 25 books and monographs and over 125 academic and professional articles, most of which are on fraud, integrity, money management, corporate governance, boards of directors, and financial and managerial accounting. One of the headquarters buildings of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners in Austin, Texas, is named after Steve.
