Ryan Seay
Associate Professor of Accounting
Jack C. Massey College of Business
Biography
Dr. Ryan Seay is an Assistant Professor of Accounting in the Jack C. Massey College of Business at Belmont University. He joined Belmont in August 2019 after serving for four years as an Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University and one year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University. Ryan received his Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Mississippi, where he received the Patterson School of Accountancy Doctoral Student Teaching Award. He also holds a Master of Professional Accountancy and a Bachelor of Arts in Business from Murray State University.
Prior to his doctoral studies, Ryan worked in Nashville as an auditor for Ernst & Young and as an accountant for Diversified Specialty Institutes. He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) in the state of Tennessee. Ryan is actively involved in the Nashville community as a member at Judson Baptist Church and as a coach for various youth sports teams. Most recently, he served in a variety of volunteer roles for the baseball team at Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet High School (“MLK”), where he established the MLK Baseball Booster Club to financially support the team and its players.
- PhD – University of Mississippi, Accounting
- MPAcc – Murray State University
- BAB – Murray State University, Accounting
- Assistant Professor – Accounting, Mississippi State University
- Visiting Assistant Professor – Accounting, Texas Tech University
- PhD Student Instructor – Accounting, University of Mississippi
- Senior Accountant – Diversified Specialty Institutes, Inc.
- Audit Senior – Ernst & Young, LLP
- House, K., Seay, R. and Wooten, T. (2023). Accounting Controls: A Bank Reconciliation Case for Principles of Accounting. Journal of Business Cases and Applications, 40.
- Howard, M., Seay, R.and Seay, R. (2019). Experimental Evidence on the Efficacy of Current Approaches to Increase Use Tax Compliance. Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, 22, 21-41.
- Chaney Distinguished Professor Award Nomination (2023), Belmont University
- Athletics Most Valuable Professor (2023), Belmont University
- Don & Peggy Whitmire Fellowship Recipient (2017-2019), Mississippi State University
- AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow (2013), University of Mississippi
- Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award (2012), University of Mississippi
- Outstanding Doctoral Student in Accountancy (2012), University of Mississippi
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