Michael Penn Jr.

Senior Lecturer

Accountancy

Gies College of Business

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Biography

Michael Penn Jr. has been a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accountancy since May 2018. He holds a BSBA and a MAcc degree from the University of Arizona and a PhD from the Pennsylvania State University. He presented teaching cases at the MSA/IMA Teaching Case Conference. In 2023, he coauthored a case published in Strategic Finance for the IMA’s 2024 International Student Case Competition. Prior to UIUC, he was an assistant professor in the College of Business Accounting Department at Florida State University.

Authored Content

Oklahoma Travel Management Program: Performing Differential Analysis Excel or with Pandas
Case StudyPublished May 1, 2026New
Learn how to merge a list of manually prepared categories with a large dataset of purchasing card transactions (400,000+) using Excel or Pandas for usein a differential analysis activity.
- Excel
- Python