Monday, April 28, 2008
YOUNGSTOWN — The chairman of Youngstown State University’s Department of Accounting and FInance said he didn’t mean to deceive anyone with false claims that he’s a certified public accountant.
“I made a mistake,” said Joseph Antenucci, a YSU professor for 15 years. “I shouldn’t have done it.”
Since becoming the head of the accounting and finance department this past fall, Antenucci has included “CPA” immediately after his name on emails. He also called himself a CPA on an academic paper.
While Antenucci passed the CPA test in May 2001 — his score of 382 was the highest in the state among 1,351 who took the exam at the time — he’s not a CPA; something he acknowledges.
Among the requirements to be a CPA is submitting a few documents and a registration fee as little as $36 to the Accountancy Board of Ohio. Antenucci didn’t do that until Wednesday, a day after Betty Jo Licata, dean of the Williamson College of Business Administration, asked about the “CPA” on his emails and the academic paper. Being a CPA is not a requirement for Antenucci’s job, Licata said.
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