Gene Elrod
Lecturer
Phone: 369-6822
Office: BA 217B
Email: Gene.Elrod@unt.edu
Profile
Gene B. Elrod joined the UNT faculty in the Department of Accounting as a Senior Lecturer in fall 2008. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in Accounting this fall from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), where he previously obtained B.B.A. and MBA, Finance degrees. Mr. Elrod is a Texas CPA, has received the Outstanding Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants from UTA, and brings five years of university teaching experience (UTA and Southern Methodist University) to the classroom. Gene has extensive work experience in public accounting, manufacturing, and technology firms. His accounting management experience includes employment in positions as a staff accountant, controller, and CFO of both private and public firms, and it also provides a rich background for his classroom work. Gene’s research interests are in the areas of financial reporting quality and the information content of narrative financial disclosures.
Non-Academic Interests
His wife, Sharon, owns a gift and custom invitation shop in Ft. Worth. They have two married children, Kristen and Garrick, as well as three grandchildren. Outside the classroom, Gene enjoys golf, gardening, snow skiing and traveling.
