Lakewood Ranch, FL – May 14, 2025 - The American Accounting Association (AAA) is very pleased to congratulate Gail Hoover King and Timothy J. Rupert as the recipients of the 2025 Outstanding Accounting Educator Award. This AAA award, which is sponsored by the PwC US Group LLP, consists of a unique glass art piece, citation, and a $5,000 prize. There is also an additional $5,000 donation given to the AAA on behalf of each of the recipients which will be used according to their wishes. This award will be presented at the Tuesday, August 5 plenary at the 2025 AAA Annual Meeting to be held in Chicago, IL.
Gail Hoover King is a Visiting Professor of Accounting and Data Analytics at Washburn University, where she developed the Business Data Analytics program. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The University of Kansas and her doctorate from the University of Northern Illinois School of Business. Previously, she was an Accounting Professor at Purdue University Northwest. Her research emphasizes learning, assessment, and curriculum development, earning her several awards, including AAA’s Management Accounting Section Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education and the Mark Chain Innovation in Graduate Teaching Award. She has also received the AAA’s Outstanding Service Award and the Hall of Honors Award from the Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Section. Additionally, she served as a Commissioner for the Pathways Commission and has held various positions on boards, committees, and conferences of the AAA. Her professional experience includes roles in financial and cost accounting, as well as consulting.
Timothy (Tim) J. Rupert is a Professor and the Golemme Administrative Chair in the Accounting Group of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. He also has an honorary appointment at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He currently serves as an associate editor of Advances in Accounting and previously served as an editor for The Journal of the American Taxation Association (2020-2023) and as the co-editor of Advances in Accounting Education (2011–2017). He currently serves on the editorial boards of Issues in Accounting Education, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Accounting and the Public Interest, and Advances in Taxation. He is a former editor and current contributing author for Pearson’s Federal Taxation series. He previously received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Massachusetts Society of CPAs and Northeastern University’s Excellence in Teaching Award as well as the D’Amore-McKim School of Business best teacher award multiple times.
The Outstanding Accounting Educator Award is presented to educators with sustained contributions that have significantly impacted accounting education or accounting educators, and whose career contributions include educational innovation, excellence in teaching, publications related to the awards’ intent, research guidance and mentorship to students (at any level) and impactful service to the profession and/or academic community. The award recognizes educators who excel across multiple criteria from a wide variety of academic institutions. More information about this award is available online at https://aaahq.org/About/Directories/2024-2025-AAA-Committees-Task-Forces/Award- Committees/Outstanding-Accounting-Educator-Award-Committee/Award-Criteria. For 2025, the American Accounting Association and the PwC US Group LLP are very pleased to give this award to Gail Hoover King and Timothy J. Rupert.
