Title: Lecturer
Department: Accounting and Finance
Email: mmanahan@csudh.edu
Phone: (310) 243-2701
Contact Preference: Email
Entrepreneurship, Personal Finance, Access to Capital, Start-ups, Accounting, Finance, Careers
Michael Manahan is an author, financial strategist, consultant, and professor. He has been featured and quoted on the financial websites Yahoo Finance, WalletHub, Money Geek, Money TV and The Motley Fool for his advice on personal finance and his work with the Polk Institute, and he was the host of the Biz Rap Radio show. He is the co-founder of the Polk Institute Foundation. His publications include “The Secrets to Raising Capital,” “The Key to Landing a Job – The Interview” and “The Secrets to Job Success.” Mr. Manahan served as chief financial officer for three publicly traded companies, has started and owned seven small businesses, and as an advisor has worked with more than 150 management teams. As a teacher of finance and accounting at California State University Dominguez Hills, Mr. Manahan is educating the CEOs and CFOs of the future.
Ed.D. (ABD), Organization Change, Pepperdine University
MBA, Pepperdine University
Financial Management, British Columbia Institute of Technology
CPA: Non-Active
Should You File Your Taxes With Online Software or Hire an Accountant?, MoneyGeek, 2024
Umbrella Insurance, WalletHub, 2024
Best Mortgage Refinance Lenders of August 2023, The Motley Fool, 2023
Raising Capital, MoneyTV with Donald Baillargeon, 2022
Michael Manahan, Author, Educator and Co-Founder of The Polk Institute Foundation is Providing Training and Mentorship to Minority Entrepreneurs, Yahoo! Finance, 2021
Cities in the Most Financial Distress During COVID-19, WalletHub, 2020
Biz Rap Radio, 2017