Creighton University

Norlin is a Professor of Accountancy at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He has been an instructor primarily in auditing, international accounting and financial accounting including non-profit accounting. His Bachelors degree in Accounting is from Creighton University where he served as an officer in the Beta Alpha Psi hononary accounting society. His Masters degree in Finance and Accounting and his Ph.D. in Business Organization and Management are from the University of Nebraska where he was inaugurated in the honorary Beta Gamma Sigma fraternity. At Notre Dame, he has served as Department Chair, as Director of the sophomore foreign studies program in Innsbruck, Austria, and as Director of the Santiago, Chile, MBA program four times. Also, at Notre Dame, he received the Dincolo Accounting Teaching Award and the Kaneb University Undergraduate Teaching Award. He has served the American Accounting Association on several committees and as President of the Midwest Region and received its Life award in 2005. He has also served the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association and received its outstanding Service award, also in 2005. Most of his published research is in the areas of financial accounting and international accounting including a Praeger Special Study in 1976, a co-authored A.I.D. Evaluation Special Study in 1985, and a co-edited Dunckler and Humblot monograph in 1989.