Joel S. Demski

Who is Joel S. Demski?

Joel Demski is an American accounting researcher and educator.

Currently the Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar at University of Florida, he has also been a professor at Stanford University and Yale University as well as at University of Florida. He is a past president of the American Accounting Association.

He is author of numerous articles and of books including:

Information Analysis, 1980.

Managerial Uses of Accounting Information, 1994.

Managerial Uses of Accounting Information: Second Edition, 2008.

Cost Determination: A Conceptual Approach, with Gerald A. Feltham, 1976.

In 1994, along with co-author Gerald A. Feltham, he was awarded the Seminal Contributions in Accounting Literature Award for their article "Economic Incentives in Budgetary Control Systems" published in The Accounting Review in April, 1978.

He received the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award of the American Accounting Association in 1986.

In 2000, Demski was one of three inductees to the Accounting Hall of Fame, a program hosted by Ohio State University which honors top academics and practitioners nation- and world-wide.

An excerpt from the Hall of Fame biography comments on his research contributions: