Walker College of Business Associate Professor of Accounting Dwayne McSwain is one of four co-authors of the eleventh edition of Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting: Theory and Practice.
McSwain's co-authors are Robert Freeman, Craig Shoulders and Robert Scott.
The text, long viewed as the most comprehensive in the field, is the latest version of the first-ever governmental accounting textbook. The book is being used in courses throughout the U.S. and internationally.
First published by Prentice-Hall in 1940, Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting was initially co-authored by Carl H. Chatters and Irving Tenner, prominent leaders in the practice and development of governmental accounting at that time.
McSwain first joined the accounting faculty at Appalachian in 2009. His research has been published in Internal Auditing, Journal of Accounting Literature, Journal of Government Financial Management and The CPA Journal, among others. He has been teaching governmental and nonprofit accounting since 1999 and has more than 14 years of governmental accounting experience in practice.