Positions

Overview

  • Jim Byrd is an Assistant Professor of Accounting and Finance in the Collat School of Business. He holds a PhD in Administration - Healthcare from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Prior to joining UAB, Jim had 30 years of accounting experience including both public and corporate. His scholarly interests include financial accounting, corporate governance, and healthcare finance. Recently my interest has been piqued by using text mining approaches to analyze accounting research to develop in-depth meta-analyses and categorical topic insights.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title Altmetric
    2022 Implementing a service learning Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program: Recruiting college student participants and understanding the benefits to all stakeholders.  Industry and Higher Education.  36:659-666. 2022
    2021 Organizational Characteristics and Environmental Factors Associated with Hospitals Identified as Consolidation Targets.  Journal of health care finance.  47. 2021
    2021 The role of organizational slack in buffering financially distressed hospitals from market exits 2021
    2020 Exploring Corporate Governance Research in A and A* Accounting Journals through Latent Semantic and Topic Analysis (2020/2021) 2020
    2019 Financial Distress and Bankruptcy Prediction: A Comparison of Three Financial Distress Prediction Models in Acute Care Hospitals.  Journal of health care finance.  46. 2019
    2019 A case study: Organizational and environmental factors associated with Alabama rural hospitals' reported levels of financial distress.  Journal of health care finance.  45. 2019
    2019 Accounting Practice Partnership with Academia to Provide Students Practical Tax Experience While Benefiting the Community (2019/2020) 2019
    2019 Exploring Corporate Governance Research in Accounting Journals through Latent Semantic and Topic Analyses 2019
    2019 Financial Distress and Bankruptcy Prediction: A Comparison of Three Financial Distress Prediction Models in Acute Care Hospital (2019/2020).  Journal of health care finance.  2019
    2016 Dashboards: Useful Management Reporting Tools for Cooperatives 2016
    2015 Hospital quality of care: Evaluation of resulting financial risk for disclosure in annual reports.  Journal of health care finance.  42. 2015
    2015 Healthcare Billing: Time for a Cure? 2015
    2015 Hospital Quality of Care: Evaluation of Resulting Financial Risk for Disclosure in Annual Reports.  Journal of health care finance.  41:1-25. 2015
    2015 Looking at history to reduce current healthcare costs 2015
    2013 HEALTH CARE FRAUD: An Introduction to a Major Cost Issue 2013
    2013 Health care fraud: An introduction to a major cost issue.  Journal of Accounting, Ethics and Public Policy.  14:521-539. 2013
    2012 Distinguishing community benefits: Tax exemption versus organizational legitimacy 2012
    2012 Navigating Accounting Functions During Tough Economic Times 2012

    Teaching Activities

  • AC200 - Principles of Accounting I (Fall Term 2012)
  • AC200 - Principles of Accounting I (Fall Term 2013)
  • AC200 - Principles of Accounting I (Fall Term 2014)
  • AC200 - Principles of Accounting I (Fall Term 2020)
  • AC200 - Principles of Accounting I (Spring Term 2013)
  • AC200 - Principles of Accounting I (Spring Term 2013)
  • AC200 - Principles of Accounting I (Spring Term 2014)
  • AC200 - Principles of Accounting I (Spring Term 2014)
  • AC200 - Principles of Accounting I (Summer Term 2014)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Fall Term 2012)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Fall Term 2012)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Fall Term 2013)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Fall Term 2013)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Fall Term 2014)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Fall Term 2014)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Fall Term 2015)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Fall Term 2022)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Spring Term 2013)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Spring Term 2013)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Spring Term 2014)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Spring Term 2014)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Spring Term 2015)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Spring Term 2016)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Spring Term 2021)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Spring Term 2022)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Spring Term 2022)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Summer Term 2013)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Summer Term 2014)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Summer Term 2015)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Summer Term 2015)
  • AC201 - Principles of Accounting II (Summer Term 2016)
  • AC300 - Financial Accounting I (Fall Term 2013)
  • AC300 - Financial Accounting I (Fall Term 2015)
  • AC300 - Financial Accounting I (Fall Term 2016)
  • AC300 - Financial Accounting I (Fall Term 2016)
  • AC300 - Financial Accounting I (Fall Term 2018)
  • AC300 - Financial Accounting I (Spring Term 2016)
  • AC300 - Financial Accounting I (Spring Term 2016)
  • AC300 - Financial Accounting I (Spring Term 2017)
  • AC300 - Financial Accounting I (Spring Term 2021)
  • AC401 - Cost Accounting (Spring Term 2018)
  • AC401 - Cost Accounting (Spring Term 2021)
  • AC401 - Cost Accounting (Spring Term 2022)
  • AC423 - External Auditing (Fall Term 2012)
  • AC473 - Fraud Examination (Spring Term 2015)
  • AC500 - Financial Accounting I (Spring Term 2017)
  • AC523 - External Auditing (Fall Term 2012)
  • AC573 - Fraud Examination (Spring Term 2015)
  • AC600 - Current Topics Fin. Acct. (Spring Term 2015)
  • AC612 - Corporate Governance (Summer Term 2018)
  • AC612 - Governance and Business Envmnt (Fall Term 2018)
  • AC612 - Governance and Business Envmnt (Fall Term 2019)
  • AC612 - Governance and Business Envmnt (Fall Term 2020)
  • AC612 - Governance and Business Envmnt (Fall Term 2021)
  • AC612 - Governance and Business Envmnt (Spring Term 2019)
  • AC612 - Governance and Business Envmnt (Summer Term 2019)
  • AC612 - Governance and Business Envmnt (Summer Term 2019)
  • AC612 - Governance and Business Envmnt (Summer Term 2020)
  • AC612 - Governance and Business Envmnt (Summer Term 2020)
  • AC612 - Governance and Business Envmnt (Summer Term 2021)
  • AC612 - Governance and Business Envmnt (Summer Term 2021)
  • AC612 - Governance and Business Envmnt (Summer Term 2022)
  • AC612 - Governance and Business Envmnt (Summer Term 2022)
  • FN360 - Fdmtls of Healthcare Fin Mgmt (Spring Term 2018)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Fall Term 2015)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Fall Term 2016)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Fall Term 2017)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Fall Term 2017)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Fall Term 2017)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Fall Term 2018)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Fall Term 2019)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Fall Term 2020)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Fall Term 2021)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Fall Term 2022)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Spring Term 2017)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Spring Term 2017)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Spring Term 2018)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Spring Term 2019)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Spring Term 2019)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Spring Term 2020)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Spring Term 2021)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Spring Term 2022)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Summer Term 2016)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Summer Term 2017)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Summer Term 2018)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Summer Term 2019)
  • MBA601 - Accounting / Finance for Mgrs (Summer Term 2022)
  • MBA608 - Cost Analysis and Dec. Making (Fall Term 2019)
  • MBA608 - Cost Analysis and Dec. Making (Spring Term 2019)
  • MBA608 - Cost Analysis and Dec. Making (Spring Term 2020)
  • MBA608 - Cost Analysis and Dec. Making (Summer Term 2017)
  • MBA691 - MBA Independent Study (Fall Term 2017)
  • MBA691 - MBA Independent Study (Fall Term 2021)
  • MBA691 - MBA Independent Study (Spring Term 2018)
  • MBA691 - MBA Independent Study (Spring Term 2020)

    • Education And Training

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Health / Health Care Administration / Management, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2013
  • Master of Accounting in Accounting and Related Services, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2009
  • Master of Business Administration in Business / Commerce, Georgia State University 1990
  • Bachelor of Science or Mathematics in Accounting and Related Services, Auburn University 1977

    • Awards And Honors

    Full Name

  • James Byrd