Faculty Profiles
The Master of Accounting faculty aren’t just teaching accounting fundamentals to our students – they’re transforming the industry with innovative research and new ideas that will shape the future of accounting. Our professors have a wide variety of backgrounds, including academic pursuits and real-world, industry experience. Students gain multiple perspectives while in the classroom, join a network of well-known professionals and learn in a hands-on environment developed from both academic and industry points of view.
Faculty Profile: Tom Eldredge
Tom Eldredge is an associate professor at the University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business in the School of Accounting. He teaches principally master’s level audit and undergraduate accounting information systems, and he has also instructed computer security and financial accounting courses.
Tom has more than 20 years of professional experience and currently works for Grant Thornton as a professional standards partner in the West region. His role involves ensuring and monitoring quality in audit engagements. He assists engagement teams to successfully deliver audit and internal control services in seven offices across the West.
During his class discussions, Tom incorporates his expertise through real-world examples, and he has also designed interactive case studies from his professional experiences. He has contributed audit and internal control information to college textbook authors, and has written and reviewed technology- and control-related questions for the CPA exam. Tom enjoys running half-marathons in the great outdoors during the spring and summer months.
Faculty Profile: Steve Stubben
Steve Stubben is an associate professor of accounting as well as the accounting Ph.D. program coordinator at the David Eccles School of Business. He primarily teaches courses related to financial accounting and reporting. Recently, Steve received two teaching awards from the Eccles School, recognizing his outstanding contributions to the classroom.
Steve’s involvement and influence in the accounting world reaches outside the classroom in myriad of ways. Not only has Steve worked closely with FASB board members to lead discussions and conferences around financial reporting issues, but, for the past few years, he has been invited to speak at the American Accounting Association’s annual New Faculty Consortium and Deloitte Doctoral Consortium to provide career advice to both new and future accounting faculty.
Further, Steve’s accounting-related research has lead him to publish at least 11 research papers in various academic journals as well as to become an editorial board member for four academic journals. Steve has presented his research in eight countries and at various universities around the U.S.
