Norlin G. Rueschhoff (Professor)

Norlin is a 1955 graduate of Creighton University, where he was treasurer of the Beta Alpha Psi chapter, honored as an outstanding chapter alumnus, and, in 1996, received its College of Business Administration Alumni merit award. His Master's and Doctorate degrees are from the University of Nebraska. He teaches in the areas of financial, nonprofit, and international accounting. He has practical experience as a bank accountant, small business controller, international operations auditor, multinational management accountant, and international accounting research consultant. Norlin has authored articles in the Accounting Historians Journal, The Accounting Horizons, The Accounting Review, Advances in International Accounting, CA Magazine, the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Contemporary Issues in Accounting Research, the C.P.A. Journal, Financial Executive, the International Journal of Accounting, and the New Zealand Accountants Journal, as well as in research monographs published by the University of Illinois, the Inter-American Accounting Association, the Schleyer Foundation of Cologne, Germany and the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He has also published several books and research monographs on international accounting, accounting in development, and inter-cultural business values. He was Department Chairman from 1979 to 1983, Director of the International Studies Program in Innsbruck, Austria, from 1986 to 1987, and Director of the MBA program in Santiago, Chile, in the Fall of 1999. In January, 1989, he was a Thunderbird Presidential Fellow at the American Graduate School of International Management in Phoenix, Arizona. Norlin is past president of the International Section and of the Midwest Region of the American Accounting Association, and was the Secretary-Treasurer of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research from 1988 to 1992. In October 1992 he was recognized for his outstanding efforts as inaugural editor of the semi-annual Cosmos Accountancy Chronicle, in 1994, for his twenty-five years of service to Notre Dame, and in 2000, for his extraordinary service for the International Association for Accounting Education and Research. His daughter, Sandra, a Notre Dame accounting graduate, has three children.