Nitin Bhojraj

Nitin Bhojraj

School of Continuing and Professional StudiesDriehaus College of BusinessAccountancy and MISInstructorFacultyPart Time
DegreesDoctorate in Business Administration, (DePaul University, 2024), Diploma in Cartooning (London Art College, 2018), MS in Accountancy (Loyola University Chicago, 2009), BS in Business Administration (Washington University in St. Louis, 2003)
Contact
nbhojraj@depaul.edu
Office
1 E. Jackson Blvd. DePaul Center Chicago, IL 60604

BIO

Professional Certifications:

Certified Public Accountant
Certified Fraud Examiner

Courses Taught:

ACC 102: Introduction to Accounting II
ACC 502: Financial Accounting for Managerial Decision Making
GSB 610: Accounting for Managerial Decision Making (MBA)
CCH 220: Fraud in Real World Organizations
FA/BADM 223: Accounting and Finance Principles

About:

Nitin Bhojraj, DBA, CPA, CFE has taught at DePaul University since Spring 2020. He previously taught at Loyola University Chicago and for the Becker CPA Review.  He works full-time within the federal government.  Bhojraj regularly presents on various accounting topics to professional organizations and has done so to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Institute of Internal Auditors, Association of Government Accountants, American Accounting Association, International Society of Caricature Artists, and state CPA societies.  

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In addition to accounting, Bhojraj is a regularly published cartoonist.  He is the creator, writer, and illustrator of “Incremental Maturity,” an accounting-based cartoon that has been printed in 11 different accounting publications reaching approximately 140,000 accounting professionals.  Bhojraj is also a caricaturist.  He competes annually in the “World’s Fastest Caricaturist” competition.  He has never won, but there’s always next year.​

Bhojraj is passionate about personal finance education.  In addition to his teaching work at the Driehaus College of Business, he teaches for DePaul’s Rising Sophomore Success Program (RSSP).  In the RSSP, Bhojraj instructs incoming sophomores on topics like managing student loans, investments, budgets, credit cards, and avoiding scams.  He also gives talks on personal finance to investment clubs in local high schools.  If your DePaul student group would like a guest speaker to discuss financial issues relevant to students, contact Dr. Bhojraj.  ​

Finally, Bhojraj is an avid Star Wars fan. He is a contributor about the intersection of business, economics, and A Galaxy Far, Far Away for “Into A Larger World,” a Star Wars fan magazine.  He also runs StarWarsEconomic.com, a website that aims to chronicle every instance of economic concepts and transactions within the Star Wars universe.