Clinton E. (Skip) White, Jr.
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Professor and Area Head of MIS 208 Purnell Hall Newark, DE 19716 Campus Phone: 302-831-6902 Email: skipw |
Education and Certificates:
- D.B.A., Accounting & MIS, Indiana University
- M.B.A., Finance & Economics, University of Louisville, KY
- B.A., History & Government, Western Kentucky University
Honors and Activities:
- The American Accounting Association XBRL Teaching Workshop (Newark, DE 2006, Chicago 2007, Los Angeles 2008, New York 2009, San Francisco 2010)
- Introductory and Advanced XBRL Workshops (Regional Meetings of The American Accounting Association 2005 to 2010)
- Outstanding Educator Award (Strategic & Emerging Technologies, American Accounting Association, August 2009).
- AIS Educators Best Paper Award (AIS Educators’ Conference, June 2008)
- Institute of Management Accountants Best Paper Award (AIS Educator's Conference, June 2006)
- XBRL Academic Competition 2001-2002 - Grand prize winner (with Guido Geerts, Luke Brown, and Jeremy Liebman)
- American Accounting Association Outstanding Service Award (1998)
- American Accounting Association Webmaster (1995 - 1998)
Teaching Interests:
- XML technologies
- The Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)
- Current issues in MIS
- IT auditing
- Accounting information systems
- The application of IT to solve business problems
Research Interests:
- XML, XBRL
Publications:
- The Guide & Workbook for Understanding XBRL (4th edition), SkipWhite.com, 2010
- The Accountant’s Guide to XBRL (4th edition), SkipWhite.com, 2009
- “Assurance on XBRL Instance Documents: A Theoretical Framework of Assertions-A Discussion and Extension,” International Journal of Accounting Information Systems (Spring 2010).
- “Jims Sporting Goods: The Move to XBRL Reporting,” Issues in Accounting Education (October, 2010)
- "Introducing XBRL Instance Documents and Their Validation," The AIS Educators Conference (June 2010)
- “Introducing XBRL Using An Instance Document Shell,” The AIS Educator Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2007).
- Clinton E. White, Jr. "Introducing XBRL Using an Instance Document Shell," AIS Educator's Conference - IMA Best Paper Award, Estes Park, CO, June 2006
- Clinton E. White, Jr. The Accountant's Guide to XBRL SkipWhite.com (May 2006)
- Geerts, Guido and Clinton E. White, Jr. "SportsStuff.com: A Case Study on XML Technologies, E-Business Processes, and Accounting Information Systems," The Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 18, No. 2, Fall 2004
- Clinton E. White, Jr. "Discussion of CAWS Model for XML based Accounting Systems," International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Fall 2004
- Geerts, Guido, Robert Paretta and Clinton E. White, Jr. "An Introduction to Web Services," The CPA Journal, Vol. LXXIV, No. 8, August 2004



