Faculty
C.J. Skender, MBA
Adjunct Professor of Accounting
Kenan-Flagler Business School
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Accounting professor C. J. Skender has educated thousands of students and executives in North Carolina and around the globe.
Professor Skender, who has taught all three of his children while they were students at UNC, was featured in a BusinessWeek Online series about business graduates’ favorite professors.
His scholarly work has been published in TAXES and Journal
of Accounting Education.
Professor Skender worked as an auditor for Deloitte Haskins and
Sells in Philadelphia. He has attained 11 professional designations
in accounting, financial planning, insurance and management:
CPA, CMA, CCA, CIA, ChFC, CLU, CFP, AIAF, CFE, CFM and CBM.
He has served as a training consultant on three continents for
GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, ITT Sheraton, Nortel Networks, Siemens
and Wells Fargo. He has developed and delivered numerous executive
education seminars as well as CPA, CMA and CIA review courses.
For six years, he lectured simultaneously in CPA preparatory
classes at UNC Kenan-Flagler, North Carolina State University
and Duke University. For seven years, he taught a variety of
accounting courses on cable television.
Professor Skender has received multiple teaching awards at UNC
Kenan-Flagler, N.C. State and Duke. He was presented the 1995
Outstanding Educator Award by the North Carolina Association
of Certified Public Accountants. He was inducted into the Wells
Fargo Hall of Fame in 2003.
He received his MBA from Duke and his BS from Lehigh University.
He attended Lehigh on a basketball scholarship and graduated
magna cum laude.