Kei G. Gauthier, CPA, MSTax brings years of experience in accounting and business to American International College. Mr. Gauthier founded Gauthier & Sugermeyer, CPAs, a successful local CPA firm which provided tax service to individuals and businesses with complex reporting issues. The firm counted multiple hedge fund managers and large estates among its extensive client list.
Professor Gauthier is also the creator of the Orchard Study Guides, an interactive open-access educational resource which offers full-course coverage of Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Advanced Accounting, Taxation, and General Physics. In addition to writing and/or editing the course notes and every one of the over 6,000 interactive questions and answers available on the site, Mr. Gauthier also developed the software to present the material in a question and answer format over the Internet.
Education
BSBA Boston University 1980
MS Taxation University of Hartford 1983
Courses Taught at AIC
Financial Accounting I
Financial Accounting II
Managerial Accounting
Federal Income Taxation (Undergraduate)
Federal Income Taxation (Graduate)
Advanced Federal Taxation (Undergraduate)
Advanced Federal ITaxation (Graduate)
Advanced Accounting I (Undergraduate)
Advanced Accounting I (Graduate)
Advanced Accounting II (Undergraduate)
Advanced Accounting II (Graduate)
Applications of Microcomputers
Computers in Accounting
Introduction to Java Programming
Certifications and Memberships
Presentations
Awards
MERLOT, the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, completed peer reviews of the Taxation, Advanced Accounting, Financial Accounting, and Managerial Accounting sections of the Orchard Study Guides – an open-access, interactive, online resource that Kei G. Gauthier developed – and awarded the following ratings to these resources:
Resource | Date of Peer-Review | Rating |
Taxation | February 14, 2014 | 5.00 out of 5.00 |
Advanced Accounting | February 14, 2014 | 4.75 out of 5.00 |
Financial Accounting | February 14, 2014 | 4.50 out of 5.00 |
Managerial Accounting | March 30, 2021 | 4.50 out of 5.00 |
In August of 2022, MERLOT rated Kei G. Gauthier’s recently published Lecture Notes to Accompany Orchard Study Guides Financial Accounting, a new resource, an Editor Review rating of 5.00 out of 5.00. Editor Reviews serve as the first step in the MERLOT peer-review process.
In December of 2022, MERLOT rated Kei G. Gauthier’s recently published Lecture Notes to Accompany Orchard Study Guides Managerial Accounting, a new resource, an Editor Review rating of 5.00 out of 5.00. Editor Reviews serve as the first step in the MERLOT peer-review process.
Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants Letter of Achievement (1980).
Other Publications (w/ hyperlinks)
Links
The Orchard Study Guides – An open-access educational resources created by Kei G. Gauthier, CPA, MSTax – http://orchardguides.com/
MERLOT peer review of Kei G. Gauthier’s Interactive Financial Accounting Tutorial
https://merlot.org/merlot/viewCompositeReview.htm?id=785293
MERLOT peer review of Kei G. Gauthier’s Interactive Managerial Accounting Tutorial
https://merlot.org/merlot/viewCompositeReview.htm?id=1378438
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