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The Undergraduate Business Advising Center (UBAC) is an advising center specific to current and prospective students.
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Graduate Programs
The College of Business Administration offers 4 graduate degree programs and one Certificate Program for new students.
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Business Student Services
We offer a wide range of student services and programs designed to help both undergraduate and graduate students achieve success.
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Our Faculty
Faculty in the College of Business Administration are committed to providing the highest quality of education to our students.
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Companies & Recruiters
The College of Business is best known for delivering the highest quality and prepared graduates to the workforce.
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Institutes & Centers
Institutes to satisfy research and business consulting needs of the greater Sacramento region.
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Partner With Us
There are numerous ways to participate in and support the College of Business Administration.
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Alumni
With about 30,000 alumni in the region, we work in the private sector, public sector, not-for profit, and civic leadership positions.
MSA Faculty - Hugh Pforsich
Dr. Hugh D. Pforsich is an Associate Professor of Accounting in the College of Business at California State University, Sacramento. He received his Ph.D. in Accounting from Washington State University in 1995. After teaching at CSU-San Marcos and the University of Idaho, he decided to return to CSUS, his alma mater where he earned his MBA.
Dr. Pforsich’s teaching emphasis began with taxation and has shifted to accounting information systems and managerial/cost accounting over the last several years. His research to this point has focused on decision making under risk and the information systems and new technologies that influence those decisions. He has published numerous articles in such journals as Strategic Finance, New Perspectives on Healthcare Auditing, Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies, Journal of Accounting and Finance Research, Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, Financial Planning, Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, The Tax Adviser, and Taxation for Accountants.
Dr. Pforsich has worked in a consulting capacity with a number of public, private, and not-for-profit organizations. As a management consultant, he coordinated investment financing, manufacturing, distribution networks, and retail markets. He also developed business plans for entrepreneurial start-up companies. On a strategic level, he helps clients design and implement Balanced Scorecards for business units as small as a project group or as large as the entire organization.
As a risk management consultant, Dr. Pforsich helped to design a forensic accounting model to aid in the prediction, assessment, and management of financial information risk. Risk management strategies were developed in several projects for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), NSA (National Security Agency), and NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to provide security for distributed information systems. In a separate project at Mayo Clinic, control-self assessment workshops were conducted to mitigate the risks resulting from the implementation of a new claims management computer system throughout the Mayo Clinic network.
In the area of change management, Dr. Pforsich, in conjunction with another member of the CSUS-CBA faculty, is presently designing and implementing a Continuous Improvement accounting information system that will prioritize problem identification, aid in root-cause analysis, perform timely incremental assessments, maximize constraint capacity, and increase an organization’s overall efficiency and profitability.
He and his wife, Susan, have three children and live in Fair Oaks.
