James L. Chan

    601 S. Morgan St. (M/C 006)
    Chicago, IL 60607
    Phone: 312-996-2529
    Fax : 312-996-4520
    jimchan@uic.edu

B.S. (1971), Master of Accounting Science (1973),
Ph.D. in Accountancy (1976),
all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joined UIC in 1985

Government accounting and budgeting; management accounting

Co-winner of the "Notable Contribution to the Literature Award" AAA Public Sector Section (1984)
Member of the U.S. Comptroller General's Research and Education Advisory Panel (1990-2000).

Professor of Accounting, UIC (since 1981)
Department Head and Ernst & Young Professor (1987-1991, UIC
Director of the Office for Government Accounting (1984-91),UIC
Visiting Professor at Tsinghua Univ. China (2001), Bocconi Univ. Italy (2000)
Dedmon Visiting Professor and Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago (1993-2000)

Edited nine volumes of Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting (RIGNA).

"The Role of Information in a Democracy and In Government Operations" RIGNA (1987), w/ M. Rubin, pp. 3-27.

"Budget Accounting in China: Continuity and Change," RIGNA (1996), pp. 1-19.

"A Sino-American Comparison of Budgeting and Accounting Coverage," Comparative Issues in Local Government Accounting, ed. by E. Caperchione and R. Mussari (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, pp. 11-34.

"The Effects of Reform on China's Public Budgeting and Accounting System," in Comparative International Government Accounting Research, ed. by A.D. Bac, (Boston: Kluwer, 2001), pp. 297-314, with Cong Shuhai and Zhao Jianyong.

"Modeling Governmental Accounting Innovations: An Assessment and Future Research Directions," Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting, Vol. 9 (1996), pp. 147-174, with R. H. Jones and K.G. Lüder.

"Global Government Accounting Principles," in Public Management, Accounting Standards and Evaluation Models, ed. by P. Einhorn and D. Braunig (Badden-Badden: Nomos Verlag, forthcoming).

"Major Federal Budget Acts," Global Budget Deficits, ed. By S. Shojai (Praeger, 1999), pp. 17-25.

"The Bases of Accounting for Budgeting and Financial Reporting," Handbook of Government Budgeting, ed. by R.T. Meyers (Jossey-Bass, 1998), pp. 357-380.

"Reforming American Government Accounting in the 20th Century," in Handbook of Public Management Practice and Reform, ed. K.T. Liou (NY: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2001), pp. 97-121.

"La reforme de la compatabilite locale aux Etats-Unis: La norme 34 du GASB," in Revue Francaise de Compatabilite (February 2001), pp. 27-29.

"The Impact of GASB Statement No. 34 on Public Budgeting," Public Budgeting & Finance (Summer, 2001), pp. 79-87.