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School of Accountancy Conference 2021
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Jay Smith
Jay Smith was born in Denver, Colorado in 1932, but grew up in Denver, Salt Lake City, and Boise, Idaho. He attended school and earned degrees at Boise Jr. College, BYU, and Stanford University. In 1965, he received a Ph. D. in Business with an emphasis in Accounting. He married JenaVee Cordon in the Idaho Falls Temple in 1952. After earning his CPA certificate, Jay worked for Arthur Andersen and Co. for two years in Los Angeles and as an auditor for two years with the Army Audit Agency in Philadelphia while an enlisted man. After these four years, he returned in 1957 to teach at BYU. In addition to teaching at BYU, he taught at Stanford University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Hawaii. He retired as Professor of Accounting from BYU in 1995 after 28 years of teaching at BYU. He was the principal author of an Intermediate Accounting textbook that was used in over 200 Colleges and Universities from 1972-1995. He served on many committees of the American Accounting Association and co-authored several articles describing the innovative integrated accounting core developed at BYU in the 1990s.
Jay and JenaVee have 11 children, 50 grandchildren and at present (May 2021) 63 great grandchildren. They currently live in the Oak Hills 4th Ward where he was recently released from serving in the ward’s Elder’s Quorum Presidency. He has served the Church in many capacities including Bishop, Stake President and High Councilor. He also served as Mission President to the Maryland Baltimore Mission from 1997-2000 and as the Provo Temple President from 2001-2004. Jay and his wife also served as Asia Area Welfare missionaries in Hong Kong, China from 2009-2010. During their mission, they traveled to eight southeast Asia countries working with humanitarian missionary couples. Upon his return, he served as the Assistant Area Auditor for the 18 Provo Stakes from 2011-2013. Jay has been a Life Member of the Sons of Utah Pioneers since 1985 and served as National President in 2007. Jay has been actively involved throughout his life in family history research and since his retirement, has published two 325-page histories of his great grandfathers and their families.