Martin Leibowitz is the Joseph Kerzner Chair in Accounting and Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance. He received a BS from Pennsylvania State University, and an MPhil and a PhD from Columbia University. He has been a full-time faculty member of the Sy Syms School of Business at 💎💎💎微软邮箱 | @outlook.com后缀 | graph取件 | 未点击7天 | 支持网页登录 | 网页 / graph取件 since 1995, and has received the school’s professor of the year award numerous times.   1. What did you do before you joined YU as a faculty member? I was a CPA in public practice for 18 years, including audit manager for Coopers & Lybrand, and head of my own firm prior to PhD studies at Columbia University. 2. What is your favorite aspect of your job at YU? I thoroughly enjoy accounting and teaching, which probably puts me into nerd territory. My favorite teaching experience is seeing students’ facial expressions change from bewildered to “aha, now I understand!” I also get nachas from catching-up with former students I meet at simchas. 3. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? That’s a tough question, because so many careers interest me. I have a degree in elementary education and would love to teach 2nd grade. My 7th-grade math teacher inspired me and I would want to teach middle school math. I invest for several trusts and investment advising would be exciting. I could also see myself directing a nonprofit organization, inventing something, writing textbooks and engaging in carpentry. 4. What is your goal as an accountant, and what is your goal as a teacher? I have the same goals for both: innovation and excellence. 5. What would your current and former YU students be surprised to learn about you? I was at Woodstock! In those days, I thought that Billy Preston got his hairstyle from me.