Charles Gibson is a certified public accountant who practiced with a Big Four accounting firm for four years and has had more than 30 years of teaching experience. His teaching experience encompasses a variety of accounting courses， including financial， managerial， tax， cost， and financial analysis.
　　Professor Gibson has taught seminars on financial analysis to financial executives， bank commercial loan officers， lawyers， and others. He has also taught financial reporting seminars for CPAs and review courses for both CPAs and CMAs. He has authored several problems used on the CMA exam.
　　Charles Gibson has written more than 60 articles in such journals as the Journal of Accountancy， Accounting Horizons， Journal of Commercial Bank Lending， CPA Journal， Ohio CPA， Management Accounting， Risk Management， Taxation for Accountants， Advanced Management Journal， Taxation for Lawyers， California Management Review， and Journal of Small Business Management. He is a co-author of the Financial Executives Research Foundation Study entitled， \"Discounting in Financial Accounting and Reporting.\"
　　Dr. Gibson co-authored Cases in Financial Reporting （PWS-KENT Publishing Company）. He has also co-authored two continuing education courses consisting of books and cassette tapes， published by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. These courses are entitled \"Funds Flow Evaluation\" and \"Profitability and the Quality of Earnings.\"
　　Professor Gibson is a member of the American Accounting Association， American Institute of Certified Public Accountants， Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants， and Financial Executives Institute. In the past， he has been particularly active in the American Accounting Association and the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants.
　　Dr. Gibson received the 1989 Outstanding Ohio Accounting Educator Award jointly presented by the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Ohio Regional American Accounting Association. In 1993， he received the College of Business Research Award at the University of Toledo. In 1996， Dr. Gibson was honored as an \"Accomplished Graduate\" of the College of Business at Bowling Green State University. In 1999， he was honored by the Gamma Epsilon Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi of the University of Toledo.