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Hugh D. Pforsich, PhD, MBA

Hugh Pforsich has 20 years of experience in the areas of management accounting, information systems development, risk management, change management, and strategic planning. He has provided management consulting services to numerous public, private, and not-for-profit organizations.

Relevant Experience:

  • Accounting Professor – CSU, Sacramento, CA
  • Accounting Professor – University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
  • Accounting Professor – CSU, San Marcos, CA
  • Management Consultant – William G. Townsend Companies
  • Management Consultant – United Construction Corporation
  • Internal Auditing Consultant – Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
  • Risk Management Consultant – DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
  • Risk Management Consultant – NSA (National Security Agency)
  • Risk Management Consultant – NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
  • Senior Accountant – Harbour Pointe Properties, Highway 99 Associates, and Connwill, Inc.
  • Tax Accountant – Moss Adams LLP

Experience Highlights:

  • As an accounting professor at three universities, Dr. Pforsich has designed, developed, and taught courses at the undergraduate and MBA level in managerial/cost accounting, accounting information systems, financial accounting, corporate finance, and taxation. At CSU – Sacramento, he is presently teaching managerial/cost accounting courses for undergraduate students and will be teaching the Management Accounting for Executives course in the Executive MBA program beginning in fall 2005.
  • As a management consultant, Dr. Pforsich coordinated investment financing, manufacturing, distribution networks, and retail markets. He also developed business plans for entrepreneurial start-up companies. On a strategic level, Dr. Pforsich helps clients design and implement Balanced Scorecards for business units as small as a project group or as large as the entire organization.
  • As a risk management consultant, Dr. Pforsich helped to design a forensic accounting model to aid in the prediction, assessment, and management of financial information risk. Risk management strategies were developed in several projects for DARPA, NSA, and NASA to provide security for distributed information systems. In a separate project at Mayo Clinic, control-self assessment workshops were conducted to mitigate the risks resulting from the implementation of a new claims management computer system throughout the Mayo Clinic network.
  • As an accountant for several property management companies and a public accounting firm, Dr. Pforsich performed financial statement reviews and compilations, prepared tax returns, designed and installed financial accounting and control systems, and developed budgets and other special-purpose reports.
  • In the area of change management, Dr. Pforsich is presently designing and implementing a Continuous Improvement accounting information system that will prioritize problem identification, aid in root-cause analysis, perform timely incremental assessments, maximize constraint capacity, and increase an organization’s overall efficiency and profitability.

Education:

  • Ph.D., Accounting, 1995, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
  • M.B.A. (Finance), 1986, California State University, Sacramento, CA

Recent Publications:

  • “Does Your Scorecard Need a Workshop? BSC and CSA: Merging Mutual Complements,” Strategic Finance, February 2005, pp. 31-35.
  • “CSA @ Mayo Clinic: Assessing Risk and Facilitating Change (Part 1),” New Perspectives on Healthcare Auditing, fall 2004, pp. 6-11.
  • Reprinted: CSA Sentinel Online, Institute of Internal Auditors, February 2005.
  • “CSA @ Mayo Clinic: Assessing Risk and Facilitating Change (Part 2),” New Perspectives on Healthcare Auditing, winter 2005, pp. 7-11
  • Reprinted: CSA Sentinel Online, Institute of Internal Auditors, February 2005.
  • “Superior Foods: A Case Study in COSO Risk Assessment,” (case with teaching notes), Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies, Vol. 10, No. 5, 2004, pp. 97-109.
  • “How to Reduce Your Risk of Fraud,” Comstock’s, June, 2005, p. 20.

Affiliations:

  • Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)
  • American Accounting Association (AAA)
  • Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)
  • Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)

  
 

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