Keith G. Stanga is the Andersen Professor of Accounting. He served as Department Head for ten years, ending in August 2003. He received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 1974 and is a CPA. He taught for three years at Texas A&M University prior to joining The University of Tennessee faculty in 1977. His primary teaching interests are in financial accounting and reporting. His primary research interests are information needs for making decisions, accounting methods, professional ethics, and teaching and learning issues in accounting. His research has been published in numerous academic and professional journals, and he has also co-authored a textbook. He is a past recipient of the College's John B. Ross Outstanding Teacher Award and the College's Outstanding Research Award. From 1998 until 2000, he served as president of the Accounting Programs Leadership Group (APLG) of the American Accounting Association. The APLG is the national organization of accounting program leaders. In 2005, he received the Lifetime Achievement in Accounting Education Award from the Tennessee Society of CPAs. In 2006, he received the Beta Alpha Psi Excellence in Teaching Award.