Meet Our Business Faculty

Cathy M. Littlefield, Ed.D.

Cathy Littlefield,

Cathy M. Littlefield

Professor and Dean of Graduate Education and Business

Ed.D.Widener University
M.B.A West Chester University
B.S. Widener University

Subject Areas: Business

Dr. Cathy Littlefield currently serves as Professor and Dean of Graduate Education and Business. Dr. Littlefield joined Peirce in 2012.

As Dean of Graduate Education and Business, Dr. Littlefield oversees the College’s Graduate programs, as well as all of the programs in the Business Division. Her responsibilities include the organization, administration, continuous program review, planning, development and general effectiveness of the Division.

As a business professional with more than 26 years of experience in hospitality, human resources, business ownership and higher education, Dr. Littlefield combines practice with scholarship. She has been teaching graduate and undergraduate students at the university level since 2009, and, while at Peirce, was hired as the first full-time faculty member of the graduate division.

She holds a Master's in Business Administration and a Doctorate in Education, and her research interests include organic collaboration, collaborative learning and work environments, team development, course design and technology integration within the scope of teaching and learning. Dr. Littlefield is a published author of scholarly work and has presented at numerous professional conferences.

Dr. Littlefield's professional goals are always focused on student success and doing whatever it takes to impart knowledge, support and commitment to those around her. As an adult-learner herself, she understands the challenges of balancing work, family, civic engagement, community responsibilities and professional demands and helps others achieve that balance as well.

Contact Cathy M. Littlefield, Ed.D.: clittlefield@peirce.edu

    Peirce College's full-time Business faculty teach courses both online and on-campus in Center City, Philadelphia. Our professors will teach you both theoretical and real-life application lessons on major accounting principles and procedures. You'll learn all of the skills and competencies needed to make informed and sound decisions based on hard financial data. Our faculty members teach students how to analyze balance sheets, cash, inventories, investments, tangible fixed assets, liabilities, intangible assets, and more.

    After you've learned these core accounting skills, you'll then glean more advanced principles such as intensive study of financial statements, including the income statement, statement of cash flow and balance sheet and their interrelationship. You'll also study the individual components of balance sheets: fixed assets, liabilities, investments in debt, and equity securities.

    After you've learned about taxation, cost accounting, computerized accounting, auditing, and managerial accounting you'll move toward the final lessons of our Accounting degree program. In your capstone class, our faculty will task you with reviewing, analyzing and integrating all of the work you've completed for them to date and demonstrating your mastery of accounting principles.

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