Prof wins Outstanding Ohio Accounting Educator Award

Karin Petruska, associate professor of Accounting in the Lariccia School of Accounting and Finance at Youngstown State University, has been awarded the 2018 Outstanding Ohio Accounting Educator Award.

Petruska received the award at the American Accounting Association Ohio Region Meeting. The award is sponsored jointly by the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants and the AAA and is presented to a professor who has made outstanding contributions to the education of accounting students. Contributions include the areas of teaching, scholarship, and service to the academic and professional communities.

The Ohio Society of CPAs, established in 1908, represents 25,000 CPAs and accounting professionals who are the strategic financial advisors to Ohio’s leading businesses including public, private, and not-for-profit organizations.

Petruska earned a PhD in accounting from Kent State University in 2008 and began teaching at YSU that same year. Her teaching interests include Intermediate Accounting II, Fraud Examination, Financial Accounting, and the Master of Accountancy course Financial Accounting Regulation. Petruska has also received the 2014 Ohio Magazine Excellence in Education Honoree Award, a 2014 YSU Distinguished Professor Award for Excellence in Scholarship, and a 2018 YSU Distinguished Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is also the recipient of several YSU Research Professorships.

The YSU Williamson College of Business Administration is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

For more information about the Lariccia School of Accounting and Finance, visit /williamson-college-business-administration.