Award-Winning Lecturer Bids Farewell to the Fowler College of Business

Known for her innovative teaching and accounting information systems expertise, Nancy Jones will retire from San Diego State University’s Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy at the end of the 2022- 23 academic year.

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Jones joined SDSU’s faculty as a lecturer in the fall of 2013, and she became an integral part of Fowler’s efforts to make students proficient in the use of business analytics systems through instruction in SAP software and other accounting information systems that are currently used in organizational settings throughout the globe. 

“Nancy has been a key component in our efforts to provide students with the education and knowledge base to master the most current business technologies available,” said Jeff Wang, the director of the Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy. “Employers already know that our graduates have the plug-and-play skills needed to seamlessly fit into their existing accounting network systems and Nancy has been a critical part of that effort.” 

But she said her most significant achievement was her work with the overhaul of a course that impacts all Fowler students. 

“The accomplishment that I am most proud of during my SDSU teaching career is the redesign of the Managerial Accounting Fundamentals course (ACCT 202),” she said. “The course is required for all business majors and in the past was dreaded by many. In 2020, I and four students developed integrated case studies, added analytics in Excel, and a business simulation component to the course. The changes made the course  more interactive and interesting to the students, and it introduced them to technologies they will likely see in their business careers.”

It was Jones who fostered the university’s participation in the SAP University Alliances, and she will continue to coordinate that effort, as well as several other academic activities at SDSU during her retirement.

“I will miss teaching and working with our wonderfully diverse and inspiring students. Watching them succeed made it easy to go to ‘work’ every day,” said Jones. “I don’t think I will ever be able to truly retire in a traditional sense — I will still be involved with our faculty and initiatives within the university and look forward to spending more time working on my publication, curriculum development, and volunteering in the community.”