Dr. Myrna L. Fischman received a Special Award for 40 Years of Service to the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program from the Internal Revenue Service. Backed by more than 60 years of professional experience, Dr. Fischman serves as the director of the Center for Accounting & Tax Education, the director of the School of Professional Accountancy and a professor of accounting taxation and law at Long Island University. Since 1960, she has also excelled as a self-employed accountant in New York. Prior to her current position at Long Island University, she worked for the aforementioned university as a coordinator for graduate capstone courses from 1982 to 1986 and an adviser and a professor between 1970 and 1979.
Dr. Fischman became an expertise as a community fellowship coordinator and the Chief Accountant Investigator (CAI) for the Queens District Attorney’s Office. She’s also an accounting instructor at Manhattan Community College and the vice adviser at Center Commercial High School. Dr. Fischman created a new business machine project and curriculum at Manhattan Community College, she introduced the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance IRS program at Long Island University.
Devoted to her community, Dr. Fischman contributes to those in need through the business education and the accounting department advisory board at the Manhattan Community College. Dr. Fischman dedicated her free time to the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Astoria Medical Center, the New York County Democratic Committee, Young Democrats of America, and the Institute for the Advancement of Criminal Justice, among other organizations. Dr. Fischman intends to continue parlaying her knowledge to others at Long Island University and Bernard Baruch College.
Dr. Myrna L. Fischman
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