William N. Kulsrud, PH.D., is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Kelley School of Business of Indiana University. He joined the faculty at I.U. in 1979 after receiving his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to his doctoral work, he worked as a C.P.A. with the national public accounting firm of Peat, Marwick and Mitchell (now KPMG). While at Peat, Marwick, he was involved in both the tax and auditing areas. In addition to his normal teaching duties, he is an editor and contributing author of three tax textbooks currently in their 24th edition, which have been used in over 300 schools across the country as well as in the training programs of several public accounting firms, the AICPA, and the Internal Revenue Service. He has also authored numerous articles appearing in such journals as the Journal of Taxation, Journal of Corporate Taxation, Tax Adviser, Taxation for Accountants and Taxes. He formerly served as an editorial adviser to the Tax Adviser, the Journal of Accountancy and the Journal of the American Taxation Association.
In addition to his contributions as an author and editor, he has excelled in teaching. Professor Kulsrud has won numerous teaching awards for his work in undergraduate and M.B.A. courses, including the distinction of the 2007 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Over the last 20 years, he has also taught many professional education programs for national and local accounting firms and developed materials used in their continuing education programs. He was recently honored to be appointed to the AICPA Individual Income Tax Technical Resource Panel. He has served as the co-director of the AICPA’s National Tax Education Program, held annually at the University of Illinois since 1986. In 1988, he was named the Peat, Marwick, Fellow of Accounting at I.U. and in 1990 he was named Educator of the Year by the Indiana C.P.A. Society. For the Kelley School of Business, he currently serves as the Chair of the Master of Science in Accounting program.