John Bennett
Professor: Financial Management II & Saving Money, Saving Lives
John Bennett is a former ARMY Airborne Ranger and CPA by trade who
has spent time working for CPA firms, as an Internal Auditor with
CIGNA auditing healthcare operations, and as a regional and corporate
CFO for various healthcare delivery organizations. He has used his
industry and entrepreneurial experience to host financial workshops
for the Portland Development Commission’s Portland Challenge. John
currently runs a business that makes weapons delivery systems for
military high altitude jumps (HALO).
He has been teaching
in higher education since 2004 with DeVry University and Keller
Graduate School of Management. Courses taught include financial
accounting, managerial cost accounting, managerial finance, auditing
and governmental/NPO accounting. Additionally, John teaches CPA exam
prep courses for Becker, healthcare accounting, economics and
financial accounting for undergraduate and MBA students at Concordia
University, and auditing and accounting classes at Eastern Oregon
University. John is currently a doctoral student at George Fox
University where he is pursuing a Doctorate in Business
Administration. His dissertation is focused on aligning professionally
licensed staffing recruiting and retention practices at Rural Critical
Access Hospitals (CAH) with their financial performance.