Jacob Shortt, CPA

Jacob Shortt is an instructor in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Virginia Tech and is a licensed CPA in the state of North Carolina. Jacob graduated from Virginia Tech with both his Bachelors and Masters in Accounting and Information Systems. After graduation he joined PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in the core audit group specializing in manufacturing clients. He has also worked as a lead consultant in the risk advisory consulting practice of Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP within their banking practice, as the Cash and Investment Manager at Carolinas Healthcare System, and as a VP Regulatory Advisor at Bank of America. Jacob has been teaching at Virginia Tech since the Fall of 2016 and has taught Intermediate Financial Accounting Parts 1 and 2, Accountings Systems and Controls, and most recently created and taught Accounting Analytics.