AccountingAccounting, Business, Economics & Finance

Ellen Rackas

Associate Professor, Accounting
AccountingAccounting, Business, Economics & Finance

Ellen Rackas

Associate Professor, Accounting

Education

  • M.B.A., University of Maryland
  • B.A., American University
  • C.P.A., licensed in Pennsylvania and Maryland

Teaching Interests

Having dedicated my career to accounting, I like to impart my passion for accounting to my students.  Accounting is the language of business and is, therefore, integral to communicating business information.  I strongly believe that accounting can unlock many doors for students, regardless of career choice, and I intend to provide the key!

Research and Scholarship

My research interests include exploring taxation and public policy as well as teaching accounting at the college level.

  • Accounting Independent Study/Research: CPA Tax Research
  • Accounting Internship: Deloitte
  • Accounting Internship: Price Waterhouse Coopers
  • Accounting Internship: PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Concepts of Federal Taxation
  • Cost/Managerial Accounting
  • Financial Accounting

Cybercurrency and Blockchain in the College Accounting Classroom, co-authored with Ermira Mazziotta, presented October 2019 at the Asian-Pacific Conference on International Accounting

Regulation, Surgent CPA Review, 2019, contributing editor

  • Outstanding Academic Advisor 2023-2024
  • Rising Scholar Award, Spring 2022

Accounting

Accounting, Business, Economics & Finance