27 faculty and 0 courses in Accounting at Brigham Young University.
- David Wood, Professor h-index 35
- Scott Summers, Professor h-index 24
- Steve Smith, Associate Director / Professor h-index 18
Es on judgment and decision-making in accounting, with a primary emphasis on management control systems and performance evaluation. His research has been published in academic journals such as The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Stu
- Brian Spilker, Professor h-index 13
- Melissa Lewis-Western, Professor h-index 11
Earnings quality, with a particular interest in earnings management. Her research studies how institutional factors (e.g., regulation) and incentives impact executives’ decisions, and the consequences of such decisions. Her research has
- Jon Kerr, Associate Professor h-index 11
- Jeffrey Pickerd, Associate Professor h-index 10
- Ryan Sommerfeldt, Assistant Professor h-index 5
- Melissa Larson, Professor / Director h-index 4
Interventions to enhance student success in the classroom. Melissa is married to Greg Larson, who is also an alumnus of the BYU accounting program. They have four children and a daughter-in-law. In her free time, Melissa enjoys spen
- Hannah Judd, Assistant Professor h-index 1
Es primarily on how taxes and business strategies intersect with financial reporting and capital markets. Specifically, she studies firms’ tax-related disclosures as revealing information about underlying business strategies, as well as how
- Aaron Jacob, Associate Professor
- Abigail Allen, Associate Professor
Es on the political economy and economic consequences of the accounting standard setting process in both the private and governmental sectors. Specifically, her research investigates the impacts of regulator backgrounds, constituent prefere
- Amanda Pope, Associate Teaching Professor
- Bill Heninger, Associate Professor
- Bill Tayler, Professor
- Brittley Eldredge, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Cassy Budd, Associate Director / Teaching Professor
- Doug Prawitt, Distinguished Professor
- Jake Thornock, Professor
Interest in taxation, tax havens, earnings information content and information technologies. His research has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Accounting & Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting
- Jeff Wilks, Distinguished Professor
- John Barrick, Associate Professor
- Jonathan Liljegren, Associate Teaching Professor
- Josh Lee, Professor
Centered around capital markets and voluntary disclosure with an emphasis on textual analysis and machine learning. His research has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Accounting & Economics, Journal of Accounting Research
- Michael Drake, Distinguished Professor
- Spencer Pierce, Professor
- Tim Seidel, Professor
Es on auditor independence and audit quality as well as a variety of financial accounting topics such as accounting standard changes, disclosure, and earnings management behavior. Education Ph.D. Business Administration, Accounting, Univers
- Troy Lewis, Teaching Professor
Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.