Dan Schrag

Dan Schrag is an associate professor of accounting in the BW Carmel Boyer School of Business.

Schrag worked for a global public accounting firm and for publicly traded companies prior to joining Baldwin Wallace as a full-time professor. From his 20 years of corporate work, he has extensive experience in delivering internal audit services, including risk assessment, project planning, execution, audit committee reporting and direct assistance to the external audit. He has experience in information technology controls reviews, evaluating application controls, and assessing system implementations. In addition, he has led financial due diligence and acquisition integration projects, as well as serviced as a controller for a privately held company. With a career focused in manufacturing, Schrag has visited over 80 manufacturing and distribution sites in 15 countries.

He also developed and taught an accounting course on information technology and data analytics at John Carroll University as a part-time instructor.

Schrag is a certified public accountant (CPA) in the state of Ohio and a certified internal auditor (CIA). He received a bachelor of science in business administration from John Carroll University with a major in accounting, and a Master of Business Administration from Cleveland State University.

Areas of Expertise

Audit, data analysis, accounting information systems, financial accounting.

Courses

Undergraduate

• Principles of Accounting (ACC-419)
• AIS/Data Analysis for Accountants (ACC-432)
• Intro to Financial Accounting (ACC-211)
• Intermediate Accounting I (ACC-321)
• Intro to Managerial Accounting (ACC-212)
• Intro to Business (BUS-108)

Graduate

• Audit & AIS Core Capstone (ACC-691)
• Accounting for Business Decisions (ACC-548)

Scholarly Activities

Publications

"Linking data analytics to real-world business issues: The power of the pivot table," Journal of Accounting Education – Issue 57, 2021, Madeline A. Domino, Daniel Schrag, Mariah Webinger, Carmelita Troy.

Presentations

"Accounting and Audit Update from Campus," on topics related to on-campus recruiting and the updated CPA exam, Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors (April 2022).

"Technology in the Accounting Classroom," Indiana Society of CPA’s Educators Conference, May 2020 (Virtual).

Other

Faculty advisor to a team of three accounting majors who competed in the Intercollegiate Ethics Case Competition and earned second place in 2018, first place in 2019, first place in 2020 and first place in 2021.

BW Center for Innovation and Growth (CIG) – Radcliffe Growth Practice: Project manager for student consultant teams. Work on projects for Northeast Ohio business clients (2018 – Present).