Francis J. Farina, attorney at law and certified public accountant, was named assistant professor of business administration and accounting at Saint Michael’s College starting this fall semester. He was visiting assistant professor of accounting at Albright College in Reading, Pa., last year and has been a sole practitioner—attorney and CPA—since 1999.
He will be teaching auditing, federal taxation, and, in the spring term, accounting seminar, and in other terms, financial accounting and perhaps commercial law.
Mr. Farina was a senior accountant with Ernst & Young in Washington, DC, from 1975-1978; and director of internal audit and management analysis for Georgetown University in Washington from 1978 to 1986; deputy auditor, subsidiaries, Goldome Federal Savings Bank, Buffalo, N.Y., 1984-86; attorney at law, Chimicles, Jacobsen & Tikellis, Haverford, Pa., from 1986 to 1997, and Of Counsel Attorney with Berman, DeValerio & Pease, LLP, in Boston from 1997 to 1999.
Mr. Farina earned a bachelor of science in business administration from Suffolk University in 1973, an MBA degree from George Washington University, Washington, DC, in 1974, and a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington in 1983. He has been admitted to the bar in New York, Pennsylvania and various federal bars, is a certified public accountant in Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania, and a certified bank auditor.
