Yuji Ijiri
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Yuji Ijiri | |
Born | February 24, 1935 Kobe, Japan |
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Fields | Accounting |
Yuji Ijiri (Japanese: 井尻 雄士 Ijiri Yūji) is an accounting researcher and educator. He is the Robert M. Trueblood University Professor of Accounting and Economics at Carnegie Mellon University.[1]
He obtained his bachelor of law degree at Ritsumeikan University in 1956. That same year, he became a Certified Public Accountant in Japan at the age of 21, and remains the person having achieved that at the youngest age.
He obtained his masters degree at the University of Minnesota in 1960 and his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in 1963.
He is the author of more than 100 articles in professional journals and of several monographs including Momentum Accounting and Triple-Entry Bookkeeping.
He served as president of the American Accounting Association in 1982-83.
He was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 1989.[2]