Dr. Rahnuma Ahsan was born and raised in Bangladesh. She received her BBA degree from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and her MBA and Ph.D. degrees in Finance from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Her areas of interests are Finance, Microfinance and Corporate Governance. Dr. Ahsan has presented research papers in several academic conferences.  

While an undergraduate student in Bangladesh Dr. Ahsan worked at Grameen Trust which is the research unit of Nobel Prize winning  microfinance organization Grameen Bank. York College has an on going collaboration with Grameen Bank where Dr. Ahsan has been instrumental in reinforcing the relationship with the bank's pilot project Grameen America. This effort has already resulted in two internship positions for York students.  

Boadnarine Bharosay is a certified public accountant (CPA) in both the States of New York and Florida. He is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of York College with a Master's degree in accounting and a Post-Master,s Certification in taxation. Professor Bharosay has extensive experience in public accounting, particularly in small business consultation, income taxes and auditing. He has authored and presented various seminars to professional groups including The NYSS CPA. He has authored articles for both The CPA journal and Community - Link. Under his leadership, grants were obtained and new curricula were developed in Aviation Management, Mortgage Finance and Computer Applications in Business. He served as Director/Consultant to several different organizations, including CPA. firms.

Gerri Chanel, CPA, MBA teaches financial accounting and income taxation. Professor Chanel has over 25 years of experience in the accounting field, including roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young and as the manager in charge of U.S. taxes for a Fortune 500 corporation. She has been widely published in business and professional publications and is a recipient of the Connecticut Society of CPAs' Distinguished Author Award. She is the program director for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program at York. Her research interests include various areas of taxation, including the effect of cultural factors, social norms, and enforcement mechanisms on tax compliance behavior as well as the history of accounting and taxation.

Robert Clovey teaches individual income taxation and all areas of financial accounting (principles through advanced accounting) at the undergraduate level.  He also teaches international accounting and advanced financial accounting theory at the graduate level.  His research interests include income tax and accounting education – teaching and learning of accounting through applied scholarship.  He is currently working on a paper on students’ perceptions of skills acquired after participating in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sponsored Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, and another one on the impact of the VITA program on students’ interest in the study of income tax.  In addition, he has published three articles in the CPA Journal on recent changes in the IRS tax code.

Expertise in trends and developments in emerging technologies and the strategic use of technology in business.
Expertise in socio-economic, business, and demographic and geopolitical trends in China, and the global interdependencies between China and the US economies. See: “Most Prolific Authors in Publication of System Articles 1984-2000”, Journal of Emerging Technologies, Efendi, Mulig and Smith, p 126, 2006. See: “China: A Demographic and Business Update”, Academic Affairs Update, Vol. 11, Issue 2, March 2008.

Dr. Hsu received his doctoral degree from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Previously, he worked in the finance department of an international airline company. Before joining York College, Dr. Hsu taught at Queens College and Hunter College since 2005, where he instructed several Finance and Economics courses, including Corporate Finance, Investment Analysis, Financial Markets and Institutions, Statistics, and Microeconomics.

Dr. Hsu’s research interest is in quantitative finance and its applications in risk management and investment. He has been acknowledged as a lifetime member of Beta Gamma Sigma, and has been awarded the Golden Key medal. He has presented his research papers at several major academic conferences, and he serves as a referee for the Journal of Future Markets, Journal of International Money and Finance,International Journal of Finance and Economics, and Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.

Mary-Jo Kranacher is a CPA and a certified fraud examiner (CFE). She is the ACFE Endowed Professor of Fraud Examination and chairman of the Department of Accounting & Finance in the School of Business & Information Systems. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of The CPA Journal, published monthly by the New York State Society of CPAs. Professor Kranacher was one of several subject matter experts who served on a project funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, which culminated in the development of a model curriculum for fraud and forensic accounting education. Professor Kranacher has conducted forensic investigations and she writes and speaks extensively on anti-fraud education, forensic accounting, fraud detection and deterrence, professional ethics, and accounting education. She was recently selected as the 2009 ACFE Educator of the Year, and co-authored Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination, a textbook published by John Wiley & Sons.

Financial statements are a major way that companies convey the value of their assets and the results of their operations.  This area has become newsworthy since banks and other financial firms value their assets using various methods.  The method that they choose will impact on their net income or loss.The accounting profession continues to strive to prepare students to meet the expectations of prospective employers and to enter an evolving profession.