Who we are

Teachers of Accounting at Two-Year Colleges (TACTYC) was founded in 1974 by a group of innovative educators from the New York area. The first TACTYC meeting took place on March 2, 1974, at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York. Under the direction of organizer and founding president, Professor Florence Cogan of Nassau Community College, a group of 21 attendees representing eight two-year colleges from the New York Metropolitan area met. These founding members saw a pressing need for an organization that was sensitive to the needs of two-year college accounting faculty.

Since its creation, TACTYC’s primary objective is the advancement of accounting education. It emphasizes the development of creative and innovative teaching and curriculum. TACTYC is organized to encourage networking on issues of significance to accounting education and serves as a forum for sharing innovative ideas in curriculum, teaching techniques, and methodology.

TACTYC champions causes important to accounting education, including:

• In New York State, TACTYC was instrumental in preventing the curtailment of accounting transfer credit to upper-division institutions.

• TACTYC officers testified at the American Assembly of College Schools of Business (AACSB) hearings questioning the continued accreditation of AACSB and successfully lobbied the AACSB to soften its stand on lower-division accounting education. From its original position as an adversary of two-year colleges, AACSB eventually became a supporter through TACTYC’s lobbying efforts. The AACSB even embraced the need for two-year programs and the importance of the service that two-year colleges provided to accounting education.

• TACTYC members are actively involved in American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA-CIMA), American Accounting Association (AAA), and many other national accounting organizations. They continually further the cause of two-year accounting education.

Since its inception, TACTYC offers conferences as a forum for discussing issues of importance to accounting education. These conferences have taken place in numerous cities throughout the country. Over time, TACTYC’s reputation and stature grow, and it currently boasts individual members from all 50 states while welcoming members from across the world. While TACTYC focuses on two-year colleges, the issues it supports are important to all participants in accounting education. It encourages the involvement of all individuals and institutions who share its interest in improving accounting education.

TACTYC remains committed to providing a welcoming, supportive, and inclusive environment for all accounting educators. While members may not share the same perspective, they value, honor, respect, and seek to understand one another.