W. Steve Albrecht is the Andersen Alumni Professor at the

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(BYU). He is a former president of the

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and was previously president of the

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. He was also formerly an associate dean of the Marriott School of Management. Albrecht served as the

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for

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, Japan. Albrecht has a bachelor's degree from BYU and a Ph.D. in accounting and an M.B.A. from the

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. He was a professor at the

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before he joined the BYU faculty in 1977. He was also previously an employee of

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. Albrecht is a certified public accountant, a Certified Internal Auditor and a Certified Fraud Examiner. From 1990 to 1998 Albrecht was the director of BYU's School of Accounting. Albrecht was president of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners from 1989 to 1992 and the president of the American Accounting Association from 1997 to 1998. Albrecht has served on the boards of directors of

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, ICON Health & Fitness and

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. Albrecht is married to the former LeAnn Christiansen. They are the parents of six children.

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