Charles Skender, Instructor in the Fuqua School of Business

Please note: Charles has left the "Economics" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

C.J. Skender was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1954. He captained three sports at Susquehanna Township High School. C.J. holds academic degrees from Lehigh University and Duke University. He attended Lehigh on a basketball scholarship and graduated magna cum laude. C.J. worked as an auditor for Deloitte Haskins and Sells in Philadelphia. He has attained eleven professional designations in accounting, financial planning, insurance, and management: CPA (Certified Public Accountant), CMA (Certified Management Accountant), CCA (Certified Cost Analyst), CIA (Certified Internal Auditor), ChFC (Chartered Financial Consultant), CLU (Chartered Life Underwriter), CFP (Certified Financial Planner), AIAF (Associate in Insurance Accounting and Finance), CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner), CFM (Certified in Financial Management), and CBM (Certified Business Manager).

C. J. has served as a training consultant on three continents for IBM, Nortel, Siemens, Starwood and Wells Fargo. He has developed and delivered various executive education seminars as well as CPA, CMA, and CIA review courses. For six years, he lectured simultaneously in the State, Carolina and Duke CPA preparatory classes. For seven years, C. J. taught Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting on cable television in the Research Triangle area. His scholarly work has been published in TAXES and Journal of Accounting Education.

C. J. has received multiple teaching awards at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School (13), at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business (5), and at North Carolina State University (5). He has been included among the outstanding Fuqua faculty in four editions of the Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools. Thirty former students have earned medals on the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination. C. J. has taught more than 450 sections of college courses and 20,000 students during his academic career. He was tapped into the Golden Chain at NCSU in 1985 and was named Alumni Distinguished Professor there in 1992. C. J. was presented the Outstanding Educator Award by the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants in 1995. He was inducted into the Wells Fargo Hall of Fame in 2003 for lifetime achievement. At the University of North Carolina, C. J. has received three Weatherspoons (2000, 2004 and 2007) as well as the James M. Johnston Teaching Excellence Award in 2005. His classes were highlighted in businessweek.com, sportsillustrated.com andcnn.com in 2006 and he was featured in "The Last Word" in the April 2008 Journal of Accountancy.

C. J. and his wife Mary Anne are the parents of two sons and one daughter: Charles (1979), Timothy (1983), and Corey (1987). They reside in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	A224 Fuqua Sch of Bus, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:
Web Pages:	http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/charles-skender http://law.duke.edu/fac/skender/

Teaching (Spring 2025):

• ECON 174.01, FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING Synopsis

  Social Sciences 139, TuTh 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

• ECON 274.01, ADV FIN AND MGRL ACCOUNTING Synopsis

  Allen 326, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• EGRMGMT 530.02, FINANCE IN HIGH TECH IND Synopsis

  Teer 115, W 08:30 AM-11:15 AM

• EGRMGMT 530.03, FINANCE IN HIGH TECH IND Synopsis

  Teer 115, W 11:45 AM-02:30 PM

• EGRMGMT 532.01, ADV CORP FINAN TECH COMPANIES Synopsis

  Teer 115, Tu 06:15 PM-09:00 PM

• EGRMGMT 532.02, ADV CORP FINAN TECH COMPANIES Synopsis

  TBA, -

Education:

M.B.A.

Duke University

1981

Research Interests: Auditing, Corporate Financial Reporting, Financial Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis, Managerial Accounting

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications

1. Paquette, LR; Skender, CJ, Using a bankruptcy model in the auditing course: The evaluation of a company as a going concern, Journal of Accounting Education, vol. 14 no. 3 (January, 1996), pp. 319-329, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0748-5751 [doi]  [abs]