JayÌýBallantine
- Senior Instructor of Accounting 1994-2020
- EMERITUS
BiographyÌý
Jay Ballantine was a senior instructor of accounting and business law at the Leeds School of Business at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado at Boulder. He is a lawyer and CPA, and worked at the international CPA firm, KPMG, as well as a large general corporate law firm. He holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from Purdue ³Ô¹ÏÍø, an MBA from Indiana ³Ô¹ÏÍø at Bloomington, and JD from the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado.
In 25 years in higher education, he taught in Montana, Indiana, Kentucky, Colorado, Korea and Singapore. He received several teaching awards including the Frascona Teaching Excellence Award at the Leeds School of Business. He taught traditional university accounting and business law courses at all levels from freshmen to graduate level. Beyond traditional college courses, he taught professional education courses to practicing CPAs; other groups taught include international executives, recent liberal arts graduates with no business experience, and government officials from several of the former Soviet republics. He has authored several textbook supplements, including a guide for the business law coverage on the CPA exam.
He served as an advisor to several student organizations and works closely with students in planning a preparing for the Uniform CPA Examination.
Education
- JD, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado
- MBA, Accounting, Indiana ³Ô¹ÏÍø
- BS, Economics, Purdue ³Ô¹ÏÍø