Dr. Mary Sasmaz is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and has experience in both public accounting and the family office arena. Her career includes over 15 years of experience specializing in personal financial services.
Sasmaz has a specific interest in improving financial literacy among individuals of all ages. Her research interests include taxation and personal finance, accounting/tax/wealth management issues affecting entrepreneurial families, and organizational topics of mentoring and work life balance.
Sasmaz earned both her Ph.D. and Master of Accountancy from Case Western Reserve University and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Initially Appointed: 2005
Education
Teaching Information
Teaching Interests
Courses Taught
- Foundations of Accounting I
- Essentials of Personal Finance
Awards and Honors
- Best Review Award - 2022 AAA Ohio Region Meeting2022American Accounting Association
- Best Paper Award - Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Section - 2019 Mid-Atlantic Region2019American Accounting Association
- 2016 Research Advisory Board Grant Award2016Center For Audit Quality
Publications
- Sasmaz, Mary B. and Timothy J. Fogarty. 2024. “The Company You Keep: The Influence of Peer Groups on Tax Compliance.” Advances in Taxation 32 (Forthcoming)
- Sasmaz, Mary B. and Timothy J. Fogarty. 2023. “Work-life balance in public accounting: An experimental inquiry into supervisor support for subordinate career progression.” Advances in Accounting 61 (March): 100646
- Fogarty, Timothy J., Alan Reinstein, and Mary B. Sasmaz. 2021. “Is academic performance a zero-sum game? Exploring the nexus between research and education outcomes of U.S. accounting programs.” Advances in Accounting 52 (March): 100502
- Sasmaz, M. B. 2015. “A 1904 episode in self-regulation: Arthur Lowes Dickenson and the development of the income statement.” Research in Accounting Regulation, 27, 190-192