Herbert C.Sieg

MAS, CPA
Professor Emeritus of Accounting
Illinois State University

If you can dream it, you can do it. Front page of this site, 2001
The grassy bank of the lake behind Herb Sieg's home in spring, with 'Welcome to HerbSieg.com!' set across the bottom of the photograph.
herbsieg.com, the original2001
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Twenty-two years apart

A spring photograph of the lake behind Herb Sieg's home, with the words 'If you can dream it, you can do it!' and 'Dream It — Believe It — Achieve It!' set over the grass and water.
herbsieg.com, home page2001
Cover of See It, Believe It, Achieve It by Herb Sieg — a golden eye inside a triangle, surrounded by the repeated words see it, believe it, achieve it.
His new book2023

2001 Dream It·Believe It·Achieve It

2023 See It·Believe It·Achieve It

The photograph is the lake behind his house, taken one spring and posted on the front page of this website in 2001. The book came out in 2023. In between there were fifty years of students. One word changed.

The new book

See It, Believe It, Achieve It: The Key to Living Your Dreams, by Herb Sieg.

See It, Believe It, Achieve It

The Key to Living Your Dreams

A practical guide to turning what you want into what you have — written by a man who spent his working life teaching people to read the rules, and the rest of it teaching them to look past the rules to what they actually wanted.

  • How the conscious and subconscious mind work together, and how to get them pulling in the same direction.
  • Techniques you can actually apply — not theory, but the habits that turn an aspiration into a result.
  • How to cultivate a mindset of abundance and hold onto it when things get thin.
Read it on Amazon

Paperback  ·  108 pages  ·  Published 21 November 2023
ISBN 979-8-8682-6208-1

The record

Fifty years in one department, most of it teaching tax

Herb Sieg was one of the founders of the Department of Accounting and the College of Business at Illinois State University. For most of his career he was the last of the original College of Business faculty still in a classroom.

His subject was federal income taxation. He taught it, wrote the textbooks for it, and for more than thirty years coordinated CPA review programs that put students through the exam and out the other side.

He also built the accounting internship program from nothing and ran it for seventeen years. At its peak it was one of the largest in the country.

107 Interns in a single semesterSpring 1986 — the program's high-water mark
17 Years running the internship programWhich he started himself
30+ Years of CPA reviewTaught and coordinated
6 Publishing housesCarried his textbooks

The shelf

Herb Sieg standing behind a table lined with the accounting and tax textbooks he wrote and contributed to.
H. C. Sieg publications

Writing textbooks was the other specialty

  • Essentials of Federal Income Taxation for Individuals and Business

    Sieg and Johnson  ·  CCH Incorporated

  • CPA Review Reference: Taxation

    Sieg  ·  MicroMash

  • See It, Believe It, Achieve It: The Key to Living Your Dreams

    Sieg  ·  2023

Published by

  • CCH
  • Prentice Hall
  • South-Western
  • Houghton Mifflin
  • Irwin
  • MicroMash

Still going

The Herbert Sieg Endowed Scholarship

In 2003 a former student, Gary Gemberling, class of 1963, endowed a scholarship at Illinois State in his professor's name. It is awarded each year to a fifth-year accounting graduate student.

About the scholarship