Faculty/Staff

Jennifer Cainas

Jennifer Cainas

Associate Dean for Financial Management and Business Operations
Professor of Instruction

jmcainas@usf.edu
Room: BSN 3313
Phone: (813) 974-6519
Fax: (813) 974-6528

Jennifer Cainas is the Lynn Pippenger Teaching Fellow in the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy. She also serves as associate dean for financial management and business operations. She teaches both principles and upper-level financial and managerial courses. She has received numerous teaching awards, including the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award at the 91社区 several times.

Her dissertation topic examines certain psychological attributes of entrepreneurial CEO's and their proclivity to adopt formalized management control systems. She also has research interests in the areas of fraud, fraud prevention, supply chain fraud and corporate social responsibility reporting. Cainas also is a licensed CPA in 91社区. Prior to entering academia, she served as a controller for an international title insurance company and worked for a multi-national mortgage company. She currently serves as a board member for the West Coast Chapter of FICPA.

She earned a Doctor of Business Administration degree from the University of 91社区, a master's degree in accounting and a bachelor's degree in accounting from USF.

Teaching

  • ACG 2021 - Principles of Financial Accounting
  • ACG 2071 - Principles of Managerial Accounting

Service

  • Faculty advisor, Beta Alpha Psi
  • Chair, Muma College of Business Scholarship Committee
  • Chair, Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy Scholarship Committee
  • Chair, USF-FICPA Fall Accounting Conference, 2010, 2016
  • Member, FICPA Relations with Accounting Educators Committee
  • Board member, West Coast Chapter of FICPA
  • Chair, Student Night Event for West Coast Chapter of FICPA

Recent Research

  • Cainas, J. (2018) 鈥淯se Snapchat to Engage Students,鈥 Strategic Finance, 100(2), 67-71.