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机构臃肿3. 威廉一句话形容春天儿时回忆·安德鲁·佩顿（William Andrew Paton，1875-1961）
威廉·安德鲁·佩顿 安德鲁与玛丽·诺林·佩顿之子，1889年7月19小学大队委竞选稿日出生于密歇根卡柳梅特近郊。他的父亲是当时的本地学校监，他的母亲也是一位经验丰富的教师。 1897年，家庭定居在密歇根州南部的一个农场。
The son of Andrew and Mary Nowlin Paton, he was born on July 19, 1889, near Calumet, Michigan. His father was then superintendent of the local school system; his mother was also an experienced teacher. In 1897, the family ttled on a farm in southern Michigan.
After some delay becau of the pressure of farm work, he finally started college study at Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University), and in the fall of 1912 he enrolled at the University of Michigan. He pursued a graduate program after graduating with an AB degree, and received the Ph.D. in economics in 1917. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his nior year at Michigan and later became a member of Beta Alpha Psi and Beta Gamma Sigma. During his career he has received a number of honorary degrees, including the Litt. D. (LeHigh University) and the LLD (Eastern Michigan University).
虎滩乐园In 1914 he began his long teaching career at the University of Michigan as a part-time instructor. And on the strength of this appointment, so he says, he married Mary K. Sleator, a U of M graduate, then teaching mathematics in the Battle Creek (Mich.) school system. For the school year 1916-17 he rved as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, and then returned to his alma mater. He was promoted to full professor in 1921, and retired in 1958 with the title "professor emeritus of accounting and of economics."
While on leave from the University of Michigan he taught at the University of California (Berkeley) for the school year 1937-38. Since retiring at Michigan he has done part-time teaching at universities in ten states, beginning with the University of Chicago (1959-60) and ending with University of Kentucky (1968-69).
That his family is addicted to the teaching profession, it should be noted, is further evidenced by the fact that his son and namesake, William A., Jr., also holds the University of Michigan Ph.D. and taught accounting at the university level for more than thirty years, and his daughter Margaret, a Michigan alumnus with a master's degree, was a teacher before her marriage, including veral years at Michigan State University.
During the academic year 1939-40 he was the Dickinson Lecturer at Harvard, the first academician to be lected for that honor, and over the years he has rved as a special lecturer at a number of universities. He has been in demand as a speaker, and has given many talks to professional associations, business organizations, academic societies, and other groups. He takes pride in never missing a class becau of such engagements, though this has meant a lot of night flying.
He helped found what is now the AAA in 1916, and was elected president in 1922. He was largely responsible for the launching of The Accounting Review, in 1926, and rved as both editor and production manager the first three years. In 1940 the AAA published An Introduction to Corporate Accounting Standards, prepared by himlf and A. C. Littleton. He also rved the AICPA in veral capacities, notably as a member of the Committee on Accounting Procedure (1939-50). He has long been a member of the Michigan Association of CPAs.
He became a CPA (Michigan) in 1927, but his practical experience in the field of accounting has been largely confined to special consulting engagements during vacation periods. He has frequently appeared as an expert witness before courts, federal and state commissions, arbitration hearings, Congressional committees, and other official bodies. During the academic year 1918-19, he was on leave in Washington, first with the Bureau of Rearch and Statistics, War Trade Board, and later as Chief of Special Assignments, Income Tax Unit, Bureau of Internal Revenue (old name). He was director of the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Co. and, later KVP Sutherland Paper Co., 1952-
63, and was for many years a trustee of Barhart Foundation of the Foundation of Economic Education, Inc. Among many special assignments was his membership on the Education Consultant Committee, U. S. General Accounting Office, 1959-63.
Among the many honors bestowed upon him are the AICPA's Gold Medal Award (1944), Alpha Kappa Psi Foundation Accounting Award (1953), and the Michigan Association of CPAs' first Distinguished Service Award. In 1961 the Michigan Association of CPAs established the William A. Paton Award, which honors the candidate with the highest score on the mi-annual CPA examination (in Michigan). In 1955 the William A. Paton Fund for Accounting Scholarships and Fellowships was established at the University of Michigan. On June 11, 1976, a new building was dedicated at the University of Michigan, named the William A. Pedon Center for Accounting Education and Rearch. This structure was financed entirely by former students and other friends. In 1987 the AICPA designated him the Outstanding Educator of the Century. This special, one-time award was given at the AICPA's 100th annual meeting in 1987.
