James O. McKinsey

James O. McKinsey was an academic who specialised in corporate accounting and finance. He wrote early textbooks on managerial accounting before he founded his firm.

James O. McKinsey was an American accounting professor at the University of Chicago and the founder of McKinsey & Company. He saw that large companies managed their finances inefficiently, and in 1926 he opened his firm in Chicago. He applied accounting principles and data to questions of corporate strategy, an approach that helped define management consulting as a profession.

James O. McKinsey was born in 1889 in Gamma. Education: University of Arkansas; University of Central Missouri; Saint Louis University.