Faculty Profiles

• Department: Accounting and Finance
• Office Location:  Bldg 76 Room 232

Dr. Gregory Prescott, Assistant Professor of Accounting, has taught courses in Intermediate Accounting and Managerial Accounting while at UWF

• Department: Accounting and Finance
• Office Location:  Bldg 76A Room 341

Dr. Eric D. Bostwick has a broad, active research agenda with publications related to financial accounting standards such as goodwill, lease capitalization and fair value; ethics, ethical blind spots, and professional affiliation bias; assurance of learning; and the review

• Department: Accounting and Finance
• Office Location:  Bldg 76 Room 236

Dr. Patience Constance joined the UWF accounting faculty in the fall of 2023 and currently teaches auditing and financial accounting.

• Department: Accounting and Finance
• Office Location:  Bldg 76 Room 217

Dr. Bruce L. Davidson researches judgment and decision-making in accounting and auditing. He teaches Cost/Managerial Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis.

• Department: Accounting and Finance
• Office Location:  Bldg 76 Room 240

Brian Elzweig’s research focuses on various aspects of business law. He has published many articles on securities law, general business law, and management issues that impact members of Generation X and subsequent generations.

• Department: Accounting and Finance
• Office Location:  Bldg 76A

Dr. Richard Fountain is the Dean of the College of Business of University of West Florida and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance.

• Department: Accounting and Finance
• Office Location:  Bldg 76 Room 222

Mr. Bruce Gockerman is an experienced lawyer, researcher, consultant, educator, and practitioner scholar in the Department of Accounting and Finance.

• Department: Accounting and Finance
• Office Location:  Bldg 76 Room 201

Dr. Micah Grant has worked professionally in corporate accounting, public accounting, governmental accounting, and real estate/construction. He teaches courses such as Cost Accounting, Accounting Theory, and Seminar in Financial Accounting.

• Department: Accounting and Finance
• Office Location:  Bldg 76 Room 202

Dr. Chula King is a frequent researcher of issues involving technology. Her research interests include ethics, privacy and technological changes in education, cheating in online exams, student attitudes towards intellectual honesty, and the professor’s role in accounting education.

• Department: Accounting and Finance
• Office Location:  Bldg 76 Room 224

Dr. Kevin Krieger teaches courses in Financial Management, Investments, and Quantitative Methods. He was a 2015 recipient of UWF’s (university-wide) Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2020 he was named one of UWF’s Student Government Association’s Distinguished Teaching Award winners.

• Department: Accounting and Finance
• Office Location:  Bldg 76 Room 232

Lambert’s research includes Accounting System Education, Accounting Information System, Financial Accounting and Reporting, and Financial Analysis. Lambert is a CPA with a background in information systems and has worked for several firms.

• Department: Accounting and Finance
• Office Location:  Bldg 76 Room 238

Dr. Patrick Lucas has taught courses in the Legal Environment of Business, Partnership Taxation, the Taxation of Pass Through Entities, Corporate Tax, Estate, Gift and Trust Taxation, and Tax Databases, Research and Procedure while at UWF.

• Department: Accounting and Finance
• Office Location:  Bldg 76 Room 222

K.C. Ma received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Ma has extensive academic research/teaching and professional experience in developing, implementing, and executing quantitative trading strategies in both long-only and hedge fund environments.

• Department: Accounting and Finance
• Office Location:  Bldg 76 Room 216

Dr. Tim O'Keefe's research and writing have been published in a wide variety of professional journals, including IMA Cases from Management Accounting Practice; Business Horizons; Financial Executive; The Tax Executive; Accounting Horizons; Management Accounting; and Cost and Management.

• Department: Accounting and Finance
• Office Location:  Bldg 76 Room 236

Dr. Doug Waggle teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Investments, Managerial Finance, Personal Financial Planning and other subjects. Waggle’s research interests include asset allocations and individual portfolio decisions.

• Department: Accounting and Finance
• Office Location:  Bldg 76 Room 218

Dr. Barbara S. White, who teaches Accounting, can often summon teaching examples from her previous career in industry and banking. She was a corporate tax manager, bank acquisition coordinator, budget director, financial analyst and accounting manager.