Governor Appoints Maggie Houston to State Accountancy Board

M. A. “Maggie” Houston, CPA, a lecturer in the Department of Accountancy at Wright State University, has been appointed to the state’s Accountancy Board of Ohio by Governor Ted Strickland.

The nine-member Accountancy Board is responsible for examining and licensing certified public accountants (CPAs), licensing public accountants (PAs), registering public accounting firms, and enforcing the applicable provisions of the Ohio Revised Code. The board’s mission is to ensure that the services received by Ohio’s citizens and businesses from CPAs and PAs licensed by the board will be performed in an ethical and professional manner and to strictly and fairly enforce Ohio’s statutes and rules.

The recipient of the 2001 Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence, Houston is an expert in accounting information systems, a key component of the increasingly technology-oriented business environment. Along with using technology in her classroom presentations, Houston also shows students how to use technology to learn and to boost their career prospects.

A member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Ohio Society of CPAs, and the Institute of Management Accountants, Houston is also a member of the Government Finance Officers Association’s Special Review Committee for the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting Program. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Ohio CPA Foundation and the Finance Committee of Artemis Center in Dayton, Ohio.