Office: 455 RBC Phone: 610-758-3431 Fax: 610-758-6429 Email: kps1@lehigh.edu Undergraduate: Cost Accounting Intermediate Accounting I Introduction to Managerial Accounting Intro to Financial Accounting Graduate: Management Control Systems

Department of Accounting:  Professor

Education
- University of Massachusetts, B.A., M.S., Ph.D.

Kenneth P. Sinclair began his academic career at Lehigh University in 1972.  Currently he serves as Senior Advisor to the Dean. He  served as department chair from 1988 to 2007. Sinclair has held leadership positions with professional accounting organizations and served on numerous academic and advisory committees. He has received several awards for teaching and service, including the first Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants' Outstanding Accounting Educator Award.

Professor Sinclair has researched and written on a myriad of subjects related to managerial accounting. Recently he joined the Board of Directors, serving as audit committee chair, for Lannett Company, a publicly-traded, generic drug manufacturing firm. Sinclair earned a bachelor of business administration degree in accounting, a master of science degree in accounting and a doctorate degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts.

Research Interests

• Cost management approaches in manufacturing firms
• Accounting and business education issues

Selected Awards and Honors in Teaching and Service

• Robert and Christine Staub Faculty Award, which honors a faculty member in the College of Business & Economics, who is perceived to have made a positive difference in the lives of students, the college community, or with fellow faculty members, 2006
• Coopers & Lybrand Professorship, 1994-95.
• First Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants' Outstanding Accounting Educator Award, given to an accounting educator from a Pennsylvania college or university who has distinguished him- or herself through excellence in teaching, motivation and education innovation, 1989.
• Deming Lewis Faculty Award, given by the Lehigh University Alumni Association to the person who is judged by the ten-year reunion class to have significantly influenced their members' educational experience, 1987.
• William H. Moyer Trophy, awarded by the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the Institute of Management Accounting, given to the member whose activity on behalf of the chapter is deemed most outstanding, 1988, 1984, 1982.
• Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Award, given by Lehigh University to a faculty member who demonstrates mastery of his or her field and superior ability in communicating it to others, 1982.
• Lindback Teaching Award, given by the Lehigh University Faculty to a junior faculty member who has demonstrated outstanding teaching achievement, 1975.

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Cirriculum Vitae