Roby Sawyers
Professor
Education: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1990
Office Location: 3106 Nelson
Phone: 919.515.4443
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rsawyers/webpage/index.htm
Curriculum Vita
Department / Affiliations
Department of Accounting
Research Specialties
Federal estate tax issues, North Carolina’s tax structure, behavioral aspects of income tax decision-making, tax patents
Selected Research Publications
ACCT (Managerial), 1st edition, with Steve Jackson (University of Southern Mississippi) and Greg Jenkins (Virginia Tech University), Cengage Publishing, February 2010.
“Patents Gone Wild: An Ethical Examination and Legal Analysis of Tax-Related and Tax Strategy Patents,” with Wade Chumney (Georgia Tech University) and David Baumer (NC State), American Business Law Journal, Volume 46 Number 3, pp. 343-406, Fall 2009.
“When Worlds Collide: Applying the Nonobviousness and Novelty Requirements of Patent Law to Tax Strategy Patents,” with David Baumer and Wade Chumney, ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research, Volume 7, 2009.
Study Guide to accompany South Western Federal Taxation Comprehensive Volume – 2010 Edition, with Kristina Zvinakis (University of Texas at Austin), May 2009
“Strategic Cost Management,” Chapter 20 in The Global Business Handbook – The Eight Dimensions of International Management, edited by David J. Newlands and Mark J. Hooper , January 2009, pp. 325-336, Gower Publishing.
Managerial Accounting – A Focus on Ethical Decision Making, 5th edition, with Steve Jackson and Greg Jenkins, Cengage Publishing, October 2008.