Robert Kuhn Mautz (Bob), formerly of Salt Lake City, died on 2 June 2002 in Oakton, Virginia where he had resided for 14 months.
He was born on 12 April 1915 in Fort William, Ontario, Canada, to William Frederick and Caroline Barbara Kuhn Mautz, the youngest of seven children. All predeceased him. He married Ruth Sylvia Sundby on September 9, 1939.
He is survived by their three children: Robert Kuhn Mautz II, Wilmette, Illinois; Carl David Mautz, Oakton, Virginia; and Kristin Barbara Mautz Center, Dover, Ohio; 14 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Robert received a BS in Accounting from the University of North Dakota, and a Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois where he subsequently taught. He later became a partner with the Accounting firm of Ernst & Ernst in Cleveland, Ohio before completing his academic career at the University of Michigan where he taught and directed the Paton Center of Accounting Research.
Subsequent professional attainments included membership on the Public Oversight Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, service on the Federal Government's Cost Accounting Standards Board and President of the American Accounting Association.
Bob was a Naval Veteran of World War II where he served as a bomb disposal officer in London and Europe.
As an academic, he directed studies for the Financial Executives Institute, the Institute of Internal Auditors, and the General Accounting Office. His articles appeared in the Journal of Accountancy, the Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons (for which he also served as the initial editor) Financial Executive and the Harvard Business Review.
Professional awards included the AICPA's Gold Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service in 1979, election to the Accounting Hall of Fame in 1978, designation as an Outstanding Educator in the American Accounting Association in 1984 and the United States General Accounting Office Award for Public Service in 1976.
Membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints blessed his life as full time missionaries taught him and his beloved Ruth in 1950. Opportunities for service in the Church followed in the Champaign Branch, the Central Illinois Stake Presidency, the Westlake, Ohio Stake High Council and the Ann Arbor, Michigan Ward. Later he served as a volunteer in the Church Auditing Department in Salt Lake City as well as the Executive Secretary to the Audit Committee of Deseret Management Corporation.
His children remember his active, inventive mind, his generosity in assisting those in need and his high expectations for his progeny. Most of all, we remember his devotion to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to his dear wife.
Funeral services will be held Friday, June 7, 2002, 1:30 p.m. at the Millcreek 1st Ward, 606 E. 3900 So., where friends may call from 12:00- 1:15 p.m. Entombment-Wasatch Lawn. Directors Jenkins-Soffe Mortuary.