Hank Alewine, Ph.D., CPA

Associate Professor of Accounting,
UAH College of Business

Contact

301 Sparkman Drive
Huntsville, AL 35899
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Biography

Hank C. Alewine, Ph.D., CPA, is an associate professor of accounting at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). He has been a pioneer in the space accounting field since 2020 when he published Space Accounting, an article exploring accounting’s upcoming role in the expanding space economy in the “Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal.” Since then, he has published eight additional articles on the topic in various prestigious journals and introduced a new course on space accounting at UAH.

Dr. Alewine’s early research focused on behavioral effects on management decisions involving nontraditional accounting information, with a focus on environmental accounting settings. He published six articles based on his research findings. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Alewine worked as an auditor for a South Carolina accounting firm, where he gained valuable practical experience that strengthened his ability to connect theory with real-world application.

Throughout his career, Dr. Alewine has been recognized for his outstanding contributions. He received the UAH College of Business “2023 Outstanding Faculty Member Award” and was honored as the “Highly Commended Award Winner” at the 2013 Literati Awards for Excellence.

He holds a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Kentucky’s Von Allmen School of Accountancy, a graduate certificate in environmental systems, a master’s in accountancy from the University of South Carolina and a bachelor’s in biology from Coker University.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D., Accounting, University of Kentucky, 2010
  • M.Acc., University of South Carolina, 2004
  • B.A., Biology, Coker College, 2002

Honors & Awards

  • 2023 UAH College of Business Outstanding Faculty Member
  • Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2013 for the article, “How does environmental accounting information influence attention and investment?” published in the International Journal of Accounting and Information Management.

Expertise

  • Space Accounting
  • Environmental & Ecological Accounting
  • Management Judgment & Decision Making

Recent Publications

  • Tucker, B. P., and H. C. Alewine. Like a phoenix from the ashes: Management control and organizational resilience during NASA’s Apollo and Space Shuttle programs. Abacus, forthcoming.

  • Tucker, B. P., and H. C. Alewine. 2024. Not because it is easy…accounting research enters the space age. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 37 (5): 1245-1257. (commissioned paper)

  • Tucker, B. P., and H. C. Alewine. 2024. Solutions looking for problems? How the humanities, arts and social sciences can inform the space sector. Space Policy 67, 101595.

  • Tucker, B. P., and H. C. Alewine. 2023. Everybody’s business to know about space: cross-disciplinarity and the challenges of the new space age. Space Policy, 101573.

  • Tucker, B. P., and H. C. Alewine. 2023. The roles of management control: lessons from the apollo program. Contemporary Accounting Research 40 (2): 1046–1081.

  • Tucker, B. P., and H. C. Alewine. 2022. It's not rocket science: humanities, arts and social sciences in the space sector. Journal of Behavioural Economics and Social Systems 4 (2): 41-54. (commissioned paper)

  • Tucker, B. P., and H. C. Alewine. 2022. Space for accounting and accountability: realising potential management accounting research contributions to the space sector. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 35 (6): 1353-74. (commissioned paper)

  • Tucker, B. P., and H. C. Alewine. 2021. The sunk cost fallacy and throwing the baby out with the bathwater: a little like rocket science. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 34 (4): 1016-7.

  • Alewine, H. C. 2020. Space accounting. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 33 (5): 991-1018.

  • Alewine, H. C., and D. Stone. 2017. Accounting systems’ design matters: evaluability and mode influence environmental performance judgments. Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research 20: 23-62.