Frank M. Messina Named to Who's Who in Birmingham Accounting

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Frank M. Messina, D.B.A, C.P.A., professor and chair of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Accounting and Information Systems (ACIS) in the UAB School of Business, recently was listed in the Birmingham Business Journal’s Who’s Who in Law and Accounting.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Frank M. Messina, D.B.A, C.P.A., professor and chair of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Accounting and Information Systems (ACIS) in the UAB School of Business, recently was listed in the Birmingham Business Journal’s Who’s Who in Law and Accounting.

Editors, reporters and industry experts selected 98 individuals – 61 lawyers and 37 accountants – as the Birmingham area’s “movers and shakers” in these fields. The honorees on the list include presidents of the area’s legal and accounting associations, managing partners of top law and accounting firms, Alabama legislators who are accountants or lawyers and others.

Messina has been chair of ACIS since 2002 and is the school’s Ernst & Young Scholar.

He received a doctorate in business administration (D.B.A.) from Mississippi State University (MSU) in 1993, a master’s in professional accountancy at MSU in 1990 and a bachelor’s in business administration at the University of West Alabama in 1986.