Professor Lois A. Ross
Associate Professor of Accounting

BA: Houghton College, 1973
MA: California State University, Los Angeles, 1976
MBA: State University of New York at Buffalo, 1998

Experience: Professor Ross graduated from Houghton College with a German major and minors in mathematics and secondary education. She and her husband, Daniel Ross (‘72), lived in California while he completed his Ph.D. in psychology. During that time, Professor Ross taught high school German and math, and finished up a MA in Education. Following her husband’s graduation in 1977, he took a position at Houghton College teaching psychology courses, while she taught part-time at Houghton Academy. In 1986, she and her husband and two children moved from Houghton to Orchard Park, NY, where Professor Ross and her husband still reside. She has taken care of the financial side of her husband’s private practice since 1989.

In 1996, Professor Ross began the 2 year MBA program with an accounting emphasis at SUNY Buffalo. Upon graduation, she began work in the tax department of Sodexho Marriott in Williamsville, NY. From 1999 through 2003, she was on the staff of Fiddler and Company, LLP, a public accounting firm in Amherst, NY. In 2003, she accepted the position as their controller. Then, on January 1, 2006, Fiddler and Company, LLP, merged with Bonadio & Company, LLP. After facilitating the successful merging of Fiddler’s financial records with Bonadio’s, Professor Ross accepted a position as Controller of a manufacturing company in Buffalo, NY. During the 2007-2008 academic year, she taught Intermediate Accounting as an adjunct professor.  Professor Ross joined Houghton's faculty full-time in the fall of 2008.

 

Professor Ross and her husband are members of Armor Bible Church, PCA, of Orchard Park, where she has worked as a youth group leader and children’s club leader. She and her husband were once avid joggers but have now replaced jogging with 3 ½ mile walks five to seven days per week.