page_title: Edward P. Moxey
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Edward P. Moxey / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Business advertisement 1912
context_page_description: Edward Preston Moxey, Jr. was an American accountant, and the first Professor of Accounting at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania. He is known for his early works on cost keeping in factories, which describe the elementary principles of cost accounting.
context_section_description: Born in Philadelphia to Edward P. and Mary Ann, Moxey was named after his father. He was banker, broker, businessman and accountant, had founded the Edward P. Moxey accountancy firm, and had published the 1881 book, entitled "Fluctuations of the New York stock market, 1870-1880." Moxey obtained his BS in Economics in 1904, his MA in 1906, and his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1909. Subsequently, he obtained his Certified Public Accountants license in 1913 for the state of Pennsylvania.
  After his graduation Moxey joined the accountancy firm Edward P. Moxey & Co, where he became partner in 1911. After his father's death in 1915, he took over the prestigious accounting firm. The firm would eventually merge into Coopers & Lybrand in 1962. Moxey had started at the University of Pennsylvania as Assistant Instructor in 1904, became Instructor in 1907, Assistant Professor in 1910 and Full Professor in 1915. At the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce he was the first to be appointed Professor of Accounting, and the first chairman of its Accounting department.
  Moxey was co-founder of the National Association of Cost Accountants, board member and co-founder of its Philadelphia chapter and its president in 1929-31.
  Moxey's son, Edward P. Moxey, III, graduated from Wharton in 1930 and followed his father's and grandfather's footsteps and became a third generation CPA. He worked for Philco-Ford Corporation, later Ford Aerospace, and taught at Temple University.
caption: Business ad, 1912
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