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Kyle Peterson

Director, School of Accounting | Charles E. Johnson Memorial Professor of Accounting

Affiliations: Accounting, Oregon Executive MBA, Undergraduate Programs
kylepete@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3329
Office: Lillis 379
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About

Biography:

Kyle Peterson is the director of the School of Accounting, a professor of accounting, and the Robert and Lois Braddock Research Scholar at the Lundquist College of Business. His research expertise includes financial analysts, comparability, corporate disclosure including textual analysis, and financial statement complexity, and his research has been published in The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Management Science, and Contemporary Accounting Research.

Peterson received his PhD from the University of Michigan. Before beginning his academic career, he worked as a consultant and staff auditor for Deloitte & Touche LLP.

Degree History:
  • PhD, University of Michigan, 2008
  • MAcc, Brigham Young University, 2001
  • BS, Accounting, Brigham Young University, 2001
Honors and Awards:
  • Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2023–2024
  • Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2022–2023
  • Outstanding Master of Accounting Faculty Award, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2021–2022
  • Robert and Lois Braddock Research Scholar, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2020–present
  • Thomas C. Stewart Distinguished Faculty Award, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2019
  • James F. and Shirley J. Rippey Research Scholar, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2018–2020
  • Goulet Outstanding Research Award, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2017
  • Business Advisory Council Undergraduate Teaching Award, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2014
  • Finance and Securities Analysis Center Summer Research Grant, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2012, 2013, 2015
  • Bronze Medal Award (third place honors), Massachusetts CPA Exam, 2001

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Areas of Expertise

  • Financial analysts
  • Comparability
  • Corporate disclosure
  • Textual analysis
  • Financial statement complexity

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Publications

Journal Articles:

Bradshaw, Mark, Lian Fen Lee, and Kyle Peterson. "An Examination of the Listing of Analyst Coverage on Corporate Websites." The Accounting Review, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.2308/TAR-2020-0149.

September 2023

Guenther, David A., Kyle Peterson, Jake Searcy, and Brian M. Williams. "How Useful Are Tax Disclosures in Predicting Effective Tax Rates? A Machine Learning Approach." The Accounting Review 90, no. 5: 297-322. https://doi.org/10.2308/TAR-2021-0398.

September 2023

Kim, Jaewoo, Seyoung Park, Kyle Peterson, and Ryan Wilson. "Not Ready for Primetime: Financial Reporting Quality after SPAC Mergers." Management Science 68, no. 9: 7054-7064. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4478.

September 2022

Cutler, Joshua, Angela K. Davis, Kyle Peterson. "Disclosure and the Outcome of Securities Litigation." Review of Accounting Studies 24, no. 1: 230-263. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-018-9476-9.

March 2019

Folsom, David, Paul Hribar, Richard D. Mergenthaler, and Kyle Peterson. "Principles-Based Standards and Earnings Attributes." Management Science 63, no. 8: 2592-2615. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2465.

August 2017

Bradshaw, Mark T., Lian Fen Lee, and Kyle Peterson. "The Interactive Role of Difficulty and Incentives in Explaining the Annual Earnings Forecast Walkdown." The Accounting Review 91, no. 4: 995-1021. https://doi.org/10.2308/accr-51398.

July 2016

Filzen, Joshua J., and Kyle Peterson. "Financial Statement Complexity and Meeting Analysts' Expectations." Contemporary Accounting Research 32, no. 4: 1560-1594. https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12135.

December 2015

Peterson, Kyle, Roy Schmardebeck, and T. Jeffrey Wilks. "The Earnings Quality and Information Processing Effects of Accounting Consistency." The Accounting Review 90, no. 6: 2483-2514. https://doi.org/10.2308/accr-51048.

November 2015

Caskey, Judson A., and Kyle Peterson. "Conservatism Measures That Control for the Effects of Economic Rents on Stock Returns." Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 42, no. 4: 731-756. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-013-0360-1.

May 2014

Peterson, Kyle. "Accounting Complexity, Misreporting, and the Consequences of Misreporting. "Review of Accounting Studies 17, no. 1: 72-95. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-011-9164-5.

March 2012

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