Stephen Addam Zeff (born July 26, 1933) is an American accounting historian, and Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Accounting at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States.
[1] Zeff was born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father ran a small industrial advertising agency.
After his graduation from Highland Park High School in 1951, he went to the University of Colorado Boulder, where he obtained his BS in 1955 with a major in accountancy and his MA in 1957.
He then moved to the University of Michigan, where he received his Master of Business Administration in 1960 and his PhD in 1962.
During his undergraduate years, Zeff worked as an editor for the Colorado Daily, the student newspaper.