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Monte Swain to deliver BYU devotional address May 27

Monte Swain, a faculty member in the School of Accountancy at Brigham Young University, will discuss "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God?" during a university devotional on Tuesday, May 27, at 11:05 a.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall.

The devotional will be broadcast live on BYU Television, KBYU TV, KBYU FM and byubroadcasting.org. For rebroadcast information, visit byubroadcasting.org.

Currently the Deloitte Professor of Accountancy, Swain has won the Ernst and Young BYU Outstanding Educator Award, the Marriott School of Management Outstanding Teacher Award and the BYU Marriott Alumni Board Teaching Excellence Award, which he has earned three times.

He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from BYU and his doctorate from Michigan State University, where he taught before coming to BYU in 1991. His research interests include accounting and the Theory of Constraints, the impact of the Balanced Scorecard framework on decision processes and accounting and ebusiness.

His professional experience includes service on the editorial board of Issues in Accounting Education, the board of directors for QSI Corporation and CFO of Authorize.net, a subsidiary of InfoSpace.com.

Writer: Marissa Ballantyne

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Photo by Kaitlyn Pieper/BYU Photo

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