Dr. Brian Trout
Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance
Office Hours
M: 9:00-11:00am
T: 10:45-11:45am
W: 8:00-10:00am (online)
Comments: For online appointments, email Brian.Trout@millersville.edu for the Zoom link.
spring 2025 schedule
| ACCT | 361 | 01 | 17482 | Intermediate Accounting I | TR | 9:25 | 10:40 | MCCOM | 300 |
| ACCT | 364 | 01 | 17484 | Cost Accounting | MW | 12:00 | 1:15 | MCCOM | 300 |
| ACCT | 368 | 50A | 18226 | Business Applications: Excel | ONLINE | ONLINE | |||
| BUAD | 162 | 0 | 18547 | Intro to Managerial Accounting | TR | 1:10 | 2:25 | MCCOM | 300 |
| BUAD | 162 | 01 | 8426 | Intro to Managerial Accounting | TR | 2:35 | 3:50 | MCCOM | 300 |
ABOUT DR. TROUT
Dr. Trout brings more than 15 years of professional experience to the Lombardo College of Business. He is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, Chartered Global Management Accountant, and member of numerous professional organizations. He is a proud Millersville University alumnus who earned a B.S. in Business Administration, Master’s in Accounting from Stetson University and Doctor of Business Administration from Wilmington University.
Dr. Trout is faculty advisor for the Student Business Association and mentor for students pursuing professional certifications such as the CPA, CMA, and Microsoft’s Excel Expert Certification. Classes taught include Introduction to Financial Accounting, Introduction to Managerial Accounting, Personal Financial Planning, Intermediate Accounting I, Intermediate Accounting II, Cost Accounting, Auditing, Data Analysis & Microsoft Excel, Business Ethics, and Freshman First Year Experience.
Dr. Trout serves as thesis advisor to business students and enjoys helping them seize opportunities to present their work. Dr. Trout’s research interests center on accounting pedagogy and business students’ career aspirations. Past pedagogical studies have empirically tested teaching strategies related to presenting material from the first-person perspective, video instruction formats, and accounting instruction through a semester-long common frame of reference which was recognized by Millersville’s Center for Academic Excellence for innovative classroom practices. Research on career choices among college students includes investigating the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on students’ choice of college major and a study comprised of 13 Pennsylvania universities and colleges to examine factors that impact a Pennsylvania accounting student’s intention to pursue the CPA. Dr. Trout’s work has been published in Pennsylvania CPA Journal, Journal of Accounting and Finance, Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, Journal of Finance and Accountancy, The Quarterly Review of Distance Education, and Journal of Education for Business.