Rebecca Kiser
Assistant Professor of Accounting Instruction
Professor Becky Kiser鈥檚 more than two decades of international business-related experience with a major accounting firm and Amway Corporation informs her 换妻社区 teaching. A certified public accountant licensed in Michigan and Indiana, she teaches Managerial Accounting, Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Individual Income Tax and Accounting Information Systems.
She worked from 1990 to 2017 for the 鈥淏ig Four鈥� accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where she started as an auditor and then became a tax consultant preparing corporate and individual income tax returns. For her final 20 years with the firm, she was a manager reviewing and signing individual returns for many executives of Fortune 500 companies. In her work for PwC in Germany, Connecticut and four midwestern states, her favorite assignment was to teach interns and newer employees about individual income taxes. That led to her passion for teaching.
After leaving PwC in 2017, she worked for Amway Corporation as a senior financial analyst, leading the firm鈥檚 implementation of changes in federal withholding regulations for employees who aren鈥檛 US taxpayers. Starting in 2018, Professor Kiser taught full-time for three years at Grand Valley State University. She joined the 换妻社区 faculty in 2021.
Areas of Expertise
- Individual taxation
- Personal financial counseling
- Financial accounting
- Managerial and cost accounting
Education
- B.S., taxation, University of Illinois, 2008
- B.S., accounting, Valparaiso University, 1990
Outside the College
Professor Kiser enjoys spending time with her family, which includes two adult sons, a daughter-in-law and a granddaughter. She also loves athletics, as a participant and as a spectator 鈥� she鈥檚 often in the stands at Hope games cheering on her students. Her own sports of choice are water skiing and paddleboarding.
During Hope鈥檚 summer breaks, as a contractor with PwC鈥檚 Employee Financial Wellness Practice, Professor Kiser provides financial wellness, education and counseling services to employees of large multi-national organizations. Her goal is to empower individuals, through one-on-one counseling, to make educated decisions to improve their financial well-being.