Faculty

Dr. Debra Snyder, CPA
debra.snyder@mvnu.edu
(740) 392-6868 Ext. 3303

Education:

• Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, Accounting
• Master of Health Administration (MHA), The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Health Administration
• Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA), The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Accounting

Professional Experience:

• Professor of Accounting, Jetter School of Business, Mount Vernon Nazarene University (MVNU)
• Financial Analyst, Grant Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio
• Healthcare Consultant, The Raleigh Group, Beachwood, Ohio

Professional Organizations:

• American Accounting Association (AAA)
• Christian Business Faculty Association (CBFA), conference paper reviewer
• Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Beta Alpha Psi, National Honorary Accounting Fraternity

Awards and Recognition:

• Best Practices Award, CBFA
• Free Enterprise Fellow Award
• Arthur Andersen Award for Scholarship

Published Works & Presentations:

• Snyder, D.L. (2011). Using an Enron Video to Teach Accounting Ethics. Presented at the Christian Business Faculty Association annual conference.
• Snyder, D.L. (2003). The Organizational Lifecycle Theory: A Study of R&D in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Unpublished dissertation.

Favorite Subject-Related Links:

• SEC EDGAR
• American Accounting Association (AAA)
• Acton Institute
• Christian Business Faculty Association (CBFA)

Favorite Scripture Verse:

Psalm 139

¹ You have searched me, LORD, and you know me. ² You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. ³ You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. ⁴ Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely. ⁵ You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. ⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? ⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. ⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, ¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. ¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” ¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

¹³ For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. ¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. ¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. ¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. ¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! ¹⁸ Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you. ¹⁹ If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty! ²⁰ They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. ²¹ Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you? ²² I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. ²³ Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. ²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.