Professor of Accounting

Department of Accounting

Dr. David Collins

Office: Horrigan Hall 012-D
Phone: 502.272.8248
Email: dcollins@bellarmine.edu
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Degrees and Schools

  • 1993 - Ph.D., Georgia State University
  • Major: Accounting Minor: Decision Support Systems 
  • Dissertation: "An Empirical Investigation into Geographic Segment Disclosure and Its Association with Systematic Risk (Beta)"
  • 1981 - Master of Accounting, University of South Florida
  • 1980 - Bachelor of Arts (Accounting), University of South Florida

Research and Teaching Areas

  • Instructional cases in accounting and finance
  • Information technology impact on business and society
  • Financial statement analysis
  • Quantitative management and strategy

Prior Academic Positions

  • 1990 – 1994 - Assistant Professor of Accounting, Department of Accounting, College of Business, Eastern Kentucky University

Professional Experience, Leadership & Service

  • 2003 – Present - Bellarmine Representative, Louisville Chapter, Financial Executives International
  • 2002 – Present - Reviewer: American Accounting Association Annual Meeting
  • 2003 – 2006 - City Council and Treasurer, City of Strathmoor Manor
  • 1982 – 1986 - Partner, Anderson and Collins CPAs

Representative Publications

  • 2012 - Napoli Pizza Wants to Determine its Optimal Capital Structure, with Brad Stevenson, Dan Bauer, and Keith Richardson, Journal of Business Cases and Applications, Forthcoming.
  • 2011 - Jill Pelabur Learns How to Develop Her Own Estimate of a Company’s Stock Value, with Dan Bauer and Keith Richardson, Journal of Business Cases and Applications, (Vol. 3) pp. 80 – 91.
  • 2010 - The Cupboard is Bare, with Curtis A. Richards and John T. Byrd, Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies (Vol. 16, No. 7) pp. 85 – 90.