Carol Vance, J.D., Macc., CPA
Instructor - Accounting

Phone 941-359-4575
Fax: 941-359-4367
Office: SMC-C228
Email:  cvance@sar.usf.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Focus: Quality teaching with an emphasis on ethics and integrating the accounting, tax and law education to ensure that students can successfully complete their professional requirements and pursue a lucrative career while maintaining their personal integrity.
Research Areas:
   Regulatory compliance placed on the CPA’s tax practice, ethics in the accounting profession, quality education and consumer advocacy. Carol Vance has co-authored two recent articles with School of Accountancy faculty including one with Professor Gary Laursen in Florida CPA Today (2010), “Circular 230 and Internal Revenue Code § 6694--The U.S. Treasury v. Congress: Conflicts and Inconsistencies”  (more...)
and one with Professor Emeritus Bill Stephens appearing in the November 2010 issue of the CPA Journal, “The New Generation of Accounting Majors: Observations from the Ivory Tower.” The January 2012 issue of this journal featured the “Embracing Ethics and Morality” article Carol co-authored with Professor Stephens and Professor Pettegrew.
Carol Vance received her Bachelors of Science degree in Accounting and her Masters of Accountancy from the University of South Florida.  She received her Juris Doctor at Stetson University College of Law with an emphasis in taxation and business law where she graduated fourth in her class. She is licensed to practice both law and accounting in the states of Florida and California.

Carol began her professional accounting career with Coopers & Lybrand. She founded her own tax law and accounting firm that serves the legal and tax needs of closely held businesses and their owners with a focus on high net worth entrepreneurs from cradle to grave. Carol has developed on-line business law courses at the graduate and undergraduate level for the School of Accountancy at the University of South Florida and teaches tax and business law courses including BUL 3320, 5332, Tax 5015 and Tax 4001.  She has been teaching in the School of Accountancy since 1983 and was awarded the Most Outstanding Instructor in Spring 2010 at the USF Tampa campus.

Carol holds memberships in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the California Society of Certified Public Accountants, the American Bar Association, the California Bar Association, and the Florida Bar Association. She is also a Certified Seniors Adviser and a Florida Certified Family Law Mediator and volunteers with the Elder Justice Center at the Administrative Offices of the Hillsborough County Probate Court.

She is an avid reader, international traveler, dabbles with gourmet cooking and enjoys fine wine. She has scuba dove most of the great dive spots in the world and skies Utah and Colorado in the winter and surfs and boogie boards Southern California waves in the summer.
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Publications


Pettegrew, Loyd S. & Vance, Carol A. “The Seven Rules of Bureaucracy.” The von Mises Institute,
     March 01, 2012, pp. 1-18. [This article led to invitations to be featured on a radio talk show,
     “Free Markets,Free People,” to be excerpted in a business strategy McGraw-Hill text book by
     Professor Greg Dess, and over 25 emails from around the world by free market economists.]

Vance, Carol A., Stephens, William & Pettegrew, Loyd S. (2012). “Embracing Ethics and Morality: An
     Analytic Essay for the Accounting Profession.” The CPA Journal, (82) 1, pp. 16-21.[This was the
     lead and cover article in this journal and I was invited to make a presentation to the American
     Association of Accountants Annual Meeting, August 2012.]

Laursen, Gary & Vance, Carol (2010). “Circular 230 and Internal Revenue Code § 6694: The U.S.
     Treasury versus Congress: Conflicts and Inconsistencies.” Florida CPA Today, (26) 1, pp. 34-37.

Vance, Carol & Stephens, William (November 2010). “The New Generation of Accounting Majors:
     Observations from the Ivory Tower.” The CPA Journal, January, 2010. 

For additional publications by Prof. Vance, please go to the Faculty Publications website.

Teaching

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Courses for Summer 2013
Ref # 51261 BUL 3320  Section: 591    Law And Business I,
   Info: Web-based with 3 hour mandatory orientation on 5/13. M 05:30pm-08:30pm 
Ref # 58076 TAX 5015  Section: 521   Fed Taxation of Bus Entities
   Info: 100% Online

Courses for Spring 2013
Ref # 11215    BUL 3320 Section: 521    Law And Business I ,   R                9:00am-11:50am  
     Info: Web-based w/Mandatory meeting dates: 01/10; 02/07; 04/04; 05/02.
Ref # 12242    TAX 4001 Section: 521    Concpts of Fed Income Taxation - 100% Online
Ref # 21749    TAX 5015 Section: 521    Fed Taxation of Bus Entities - 100% online

Courses for Fall 2012
Ref # 81632  BUL 3320 Section: 591,  Law And Business I,  M 6:00pm-8:50pm
  Location:  Selby Auditorium
Ref # 92408  BUL 5332 Section: 591,  Law and the Accountant,
  Info: 100% online course.
Ref # 81633  TAX 4001 Section: 521,  Concpts of Fed Income Taxation W 3:00pm-5:50pm