Both the undergraduate and graduate programs of the School of Accounting at the David Eccles School of Business were named in the top 25 best programs in rankings released by the Public Accounting Report. The Master of Accounting (MAcc) graduate program moved up one spot to No. 21 this year. The undergraduate program landed at No. 22, where it was ranked last year. Among mid-sized accounting schools, the results speak even more highly of the programs. The undergraduate program was ranked No. 7 and the MAcc program was ranked No. 8. For the past 10 years, our MAcc program has boasted a 95 percent placement rate for students upon graduation.
The mission of the School of Accounting is to prepare graduates for positions of leadership in business.
To achieve our mission, we strive to:
- Create a learning environment that emphasizes scholarship, social responsibility, and a commitment to the accounting profession, and prepare our students for further education or productive careers by establishing the foundations for lifelong learning.
- Create a research environment for faculty and doctoral students that is productive, collegial, and intellectually stimulating, resulting in significant intellectual contributions in basic and applied scholarship and in instructional development and doctoral graduates who become innovators and leaders in accounting research.
- Provide significant service and leadership to the accounting profession, the David Eccles School of Business, the University of Utah, the community and academic organizations.
To achieve our mission, we strive to:
- Create a learning environment that emphasizes scholarship, social responsibility, and a commitment to the accounting profession, and prepare our students for further education or productive careers by establishing the foundations for lifelong learning.
- Create a research environment for faculty and doctoral students that is productive, collegial, and intellectually stimulating, resulting in significant intellectual contributions in basic and applied scholarship and in instructional development and doctoral graduates who become innovators and leaders in accounting research.
- Provide significant service and leadership to the accounting profession, the David Eccles School of Business, the University of Utah, the community and academic organizations.
Degrees in Accounting
Respected as some of the best in their field, Eccles School faculty are skilled teachers, innovative researchers, and global thought leaders who are shaping the strategic pioneers of the future and transforming business practices worldwide.
Accounting Workshops
The School of Accounting Workshops bring top scholars in accounting and related fields to the University to share their cutting edge research with faculty and doctoral students.
Workshop Archive
- Jan. 7, 2019
Title: Does Fiscal Monitoring Make Better Governments? Evidence from US Municipalities
Speaker: Anya Nakhmurina, University of Chicago - Jan. 16, 2019
Title: Changing the channel: The relation between information complexity and disclosure channel richness
Speaker: A. Nicole Skinner, University of Colorado - Jan. 23, 2019
Title: Accounting Quality Benefits of Regulatory Spillover: Evidence from the Banking Industry
Speaker: Hailey Ballew, Ohio State
- March 22, 2019
Title: A Tale of Two Courts: Determinants and Consequences of the SEC’s Choice of Enforcement Venue After the Dodd-Frank Act
Speaker: Xin Zheng, University of British Columbia - March 29, 2019
Speaker: Lindsey Gallo, University of Michigan
- Sept. 21, 2018
Speaker: Roman Chychla, University of Miami - Sept. 25, 2018
Title: Initial Coin Offerings: Early Evidence on the Role of Disclosure in the Unregulated Crypto Market
Speaker: Daniele Macciochi, University of Utah - Nov. 9, 2018
Speaker: Sara Toynbee, UT Austin - Nov. 13, 2018
Speaker: Judson Caskey, UCLA - Nov. 16, 2018
Speaker: Judson Caskey, UCLA - Nov. 30, 2018
Speaker: Gerardo Perez Cavazos, Harvard - Dec. 12, 2018
Title: Inside Debt and Agency Conflicts: Evidence from the Financial Crisis
Speaker: Peter Demerjian, Washington University - Dec. 14, 2018
Title: Industry Tournament Incentives and Debt Contracting
Speaker: Tom Kubick, University of Kansas
- Aug. 25, 2017
Title: CFO Co-Option, Earning Targets, and CEO Compensation
Speaker: Shane S. Dikolli, Duke University - Sept. 1, 2017
Title: The Federal Reserve’s Reliance on SEC Filings
Speaker: K. Ramesh - March 9, 2018
Title: The Effect of Investor Inattention on Voluntary Disclosure
Speaker: Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado - March 30, 2018
Title: Trade Secrets and Cost Structure
Speaker: Xue Wang, Professor, The Ohio State University - April 3, 2018
Title: A Growing Disparity in Earnings Disclosure Mechanisms: The Rise of Concurrently
Released Earnings Announcements and 10-Ks
Speaker: Salman Arif, Assistant Professor, Indiana University - April 6, 2018
Title: Ghost in the Machine: Using Machine Learning to Uncover Hidden Misstatements, with E. Cheynel, E. Floyd and T. Pan
Speaker: Jeremy Bertomeu, Associate Professor of Accounting, Rady of School Management, UCSD - April 13, 2018
Title: Responsibility Centers, Decision Rights, and Synergies
Speaker: Assistant Professor, UCLA - April 27, 2018
Title: Bank Transparency and Deposit Flows
Speaker: Rahul Vashishtha, Associate Professor of Accounting, Duke University
- April 14, 2017
Title: Dark Trading Volume at Earnings Announcements
Speaker: Wayne R. Landsman, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina - April 7, 2017
Title: The Effects of Charge-Price Transparency Regulation on Prices in the Healthcare Industry
Speaker: Hans Christensen, Associate Professor of Accounting, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business - Feb. 9, 2017
Title: Customer monitoring of internal information processes and firms’ external reporting
Speaker: Delphine Samuels – CV, Job Candidate, Wharton - Feb. 6, 2017
Title: International Corporate Access Events and Foreign Investors’ Portfolio Decisions
Speaker: Tathagat Mukhopadhyay – CV, Job Candidate, London Business School - Jan. 25, 2017
Speaker: Mario Schabus, Job Candidate, University of Amsterdam/University of Michigan - Jan. 23, 2017
Title: Monitoring, Incentive Contracting, and Accounting Manipulation
Speaker: Prasart Jongjaroenkamol – CV, Job Candidate, University of Texas Austin - Jan. 19, 2017
Title: Risk Fact or Fiction: The information content of risk factor disclosures
Speaker: Maclean (Mac) Gaulin – CV, Job Candidate, Rice University - Jan. 10, 2017
Title: The Economics of Bank Cross-Firm Selling: The Value of Borrower Board Connectedness and Opacity
Speaker: Jianxin (Donny) Zhao – CV, Job Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Dec. 9, 2016
Speaker: Jennifer Blouin, Wharton
- Nov. 18, 2016
Speaker: Francis Tice, University of Colorado
- Oct. 28, 2016
Title: Political Bias of Corporate News: Role of Conglomeration Reform in China
Speaker: T.J. Wong, USC
- Oct. 21, 2016
Speaker: Carlo Gallimberti, Boston College
- Sep. 30, 2016
Title: Do dividends convey information about future earnings?
Speaker: Zachary Kaplan, Washington University St. Louis
- Sep. 16, 2016
Title: EBITDA and Overinvestment in Capital
Speaker: Oded Rozenbaum, George Washington University
- Sep. 9, 2016
Speaker: Rajiv Banker, Temple
- May 2, 2016
Title: The Consistency of Mandatory and Voluntary Management Earning Forecasts and Implications for Analyst and Investor Information Processing
Speaker: Xiaoli Tian, Ohio State University - April 1, 2016
Speaker: Dan Taylor, Wharton - Feb. 24, 2016
Title: Inter-Firm Information Demand*
Speaker: Darren Bernard – CV, Job Candidate, University of Washington - Feb. 3, 2016
Title: Unconditional Litigation Risk and Non-GAAP Reporting
Speaker: John S. Treu – CV, Career-line Job Candidate
- Feb. 2, 2016
Title: The Role of Accounting Information in Equity Crowdfunding
Speaker: John Donovan – CV, Job Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis
- Jan. 20, 2016
Title: The effect of family ownership on firms’ disclosure policies
Speaker: Daniele Macciocchi – CV, Job Candidate, LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome
- Jan. 13, 2016
Title: Financial Reporting Quality and Dual-Holding of Debt and Equity
Speaker: Leila Peyravan – CV, University of Toronto
- Jan. 12, 2016
Title: Information disclosure and insider trading around board meetings
Speaker: Seil Kim – CV, New York University
- Dec. 16, 2015
Title: MITIGATING POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY
Speaker: Laura A. Wellman – CV, Kellogg School of Management
- Dec. 11, 2015
Title: The Ever-Expanding 10-K: Why are 10-Ks Getting So Much Longer (and does it matter)?
Speaker: Mark Lang, UNC
- Nove. 13, 2015
Title: Do Weather-Induced Moods Affect the Processing of Earnings News?
Speaker: Ed deHaan, Stanford
- Nov. 6, 2015
Title: Voluntary Disclosure and Corporate Investment
Speaker: Shira Cohen, Temple University
- Oct. 23, 2015
Title: Can We Automate Earnings Forecasts and Beat Analysts at Short Horizons?
Speaker: Ryan Ball, University of Michigan
- Oct. 9, 2015
Title: The relationship between R&D, growth, and operating leverage
Speaker: Robert Resutek
- Sep. 18, 2015
Title: What are the costs of admitting mistakes for foreign firms?
Speaker: Jenny (Li) Zhang, University of British Columbia
- April 20, 2015
Title: Direct evidence on the informational properties of earning in loan contracts
Speaker: Scott Dyreng, Duke University
- March 17, 2015
Title: Direct evidence on the informational properties of earning in loan contracts
Speaker: Atif Ellahie, London Business School
- March 13, 2015
Title: Why do CEOs hold so much unconstrained equity?
Speaker: Christopher S. Armstrong, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Feb. 10, 2015
Title: The Flow of Earnings Information to the Market
Speaker: Nathan Marshall – CV
- Feb. 9, 2015
Speaker: Jie Zhou
- Feb. 4, 2015
Title: Managerial Career Concerns and Earnings Forecasts
Speaker: Sarah Shaikh – CV
- Feb. 2, 2015
Title: Can the Bond Price Reaction to Earnings Announcements Predict Future Stock Returns?
Speaker: Omri Tov – CV
- Jan. 23, 2015
Title: Job Market Paper
Speaker: Ciao-Wei Chen – CV
- Jan. 20, 2015
Title: Job Market Paper
Speaker: Ben Lourie – CV
- Jan. 14, 2015
Speaker: Jordan Schoenfeld
- Jan. 12, 2015
Title: Limited Investor Attention and the Earnings Announcement Premium
Speaker: Kimball Chapman
- Dec. 12, 2014
Title: Financial Statement Errors: Evidence from the Distributional Properties of Financial Statement Numbers
Speaker: Dan Amiram, Columbia University
- Nov. 21, 2014
Title: Taste, information, and asset prices: Implications for the valuation of CSR
Speaker: Henry Friedman, University of California, Los Angeles
- Oct. 10, 2014
Title: The JOBS Act and Information Uncertainty in IPO Firms
Speaker: Mary Barth, Stanford University
- Sep. 12, 2014
Title: The Effect of Short-Sale Constraints on Default Prediction Around the World
Speaker: Edward Owens, Emory University
- Sep. 9, 2014
Title: Competing Reporting Objectives and Financial Reporting Quality
Speaker: Melissa Western, University of Utah
- Sep. 5, 2014
Title: Health-Insurer Bargaining Power and Firms’ Incentives to Manage Earnings
Speaker: Francesco Bova, University of Toronto
Beyond the Classroom
The David Eccles School of Business offers Accounting students many opportunities to become involved in opportunities beyond the classroom.
Beta Alpha Psi is a national accounting honor society and a scholastic and professional accounting co-ed fraternity. Its purpose is to recognize academic achievements in the field of accounting, to promote the study and practice of accounting, and to provide opportunities for self-development and association among members and practicing accountants.
As an IMA student member, you can learn about the accounting and financial management profession, explore your future career options and build your resume and professional network. The IMA offers student members access to many IMA membership benefits.
The Utah Winter Accounting Conference gathers accounting scholars from across the country for two days of academic presentations and outdoor recreation. Held annually in Salt Lake City, the conference begins the first Thursday after Presidents’ Day. The 2018 event is scheduled for Feb. 22 through 24.