Accounting Analytics for Value-Added Services

Paul R. Brazina, MBA, CPA, CMA, CGMA, CFF

Paul Brazina combines accounting theory and practical applications in his presentations and professional engagements. As former Dean of the School of Business and a tenured professor at La Salle University (Philadelphia), Paul teaches with specializations in financial reporting, managerial accounting, auditing, and fraud detection. He was Chief Financial Officer of New Resident Marketing Corporation (Wayne, PA), DirectAmerica (Los Angeles, CA), and National Media Corporation (NYSE). Mr. Brazina began his career working for Price Waterhouse & Co. and Coopers & Lybrand and is currently a shareholder in Rosenfelt, Siegel & Goldberg, CPA’s in Bala Cynwyd, PA. He has an MBA and BS from the Pennsylvania State University and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Pennsylvania, Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF). Mr. Brazina was an officer in the U.S. Navy with tours of duty in the South China Sea and North Atlantic.

Madjid Tavana

Madjid Tavana is Professor and Lindback Distinguished Chair of Business Analytics at La Salle University, where he serves as Chairman of the Business Systems and Analytics Department. He also holds an Honorary Professorship in Business Information Systems at the University of Paderborn in Germany. Dr. Tavana is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Kennedy Space Center, the Johnson Space Center, the Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center, and the Air Force Research Laboratory. He was recently honored with the prestigious Space Act Award by NASA. He holds an MBA, PMIS, and PhD in Management Information Systems and received his Post-Doctoral Diploma in Strategic Information Systems from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published 10 books and over 200 research papers in international scholarly academic journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Decision Analytics, International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences, International Journal of Management and Decision Making, International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining, International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences, and International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems