Faculty
Al Case, Associate Professor
Accounting
Coordinator:
Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Accounting
Certificate in Business Information Systems (AIS Track)
Office: Central Hall 126
Phone: (541) 552-6556
FAX: (541) 552-6715
Email: casea@sou.edu
Website: campus.sou.edu/~casea
Education:
Masters in Accounting, Tax Emphasis, 1993, Brigham Young University
CPA, 1995, AICPA
BS, Accounting, Brigham Young University
Teaching:
BA 211 Accounting Information I
BA 213 Accounting Information II
BA 351 Financial Reporting and Analysis I
BA 352 Financial Reporting and Analysis II
BA 353 Financial Reporting and Analysis III
BA 365 Introduction to Taxation
BA 407 CPA Review
BA 454/554 Accounting Information Systems
BA 455 Auditing I
BA 456 Auditing II
BA 457 Advanced Taxation
Al Case is an Associate Professor of Business at SOU. He has a BS in Accounting, minor in Japanese, and a MAcc with emphasis in tax from BYU. (A MAcc is somewhat similar to an MBA except that tax or auditing is the emphasis. At BYU MBA degrees are generally for non-accountants and MAcc degrees are for those who already have earned a BS in accounting. Many of the classes are, however, the same.) After graduating Al worked for Deloitte & Touche in San Jose, California for a couple of years in various tax areas (mostly corporate tax) before moving into industry. After D&T he was in the tax departments of two multi-billion dollar high-tech companies for about six years. Most recently he was the International Tax Manager at SGI (Silicon Graphics). In 2000 he and his family moved to Ashland to put a bigger emphasis on life in the infamous work/LIFE balance equation. He stayed on at SGI as a part-time telecommuter until September of 2001 when he began teaching at SOU.
His hobbies include baseball, tennis, reading, astronomy, mountain biking, and hiking. He is on the Board of Directors of the Southern Oregon Chapter of the Oregon Society of CPAs and, until 2005, the Board of Directors of Ashland Little League, where he also performed the role of Treasurer. From his days growing up near the Oakland Coliseum, he acquired a collection of over 10,000 autographed baseball cards. Al also speaks, reads, and writes Japanese (or at least could a decade ago) having lived in Japan for a couple of years in the late 1980s. His favorite job to date (not counting teaching at SOU of course) was when he was a tour guide, providing tours in Japanese to Japanese tourists visiting San Francisco and the surrounding areas.
