WAYNE B. THOMAS

John T. Steed Chair and Professor of Accounting

PhD (Oklahoma State), CPA (Oklahoma). Professor Thomas completed his BS in Accounting from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 1991 and received his MS and PhD in Accounting from Oklahoma State University in 1995. He first served on the accounting faculty of the University of Utah from 1996 to 2000 and then joined the University of Oklahoma.

His research interests are in market-based accounting research, earnings management, time-series properties of earnings and earnings components, segment disclosures, financial statement analysis and international accounting issues. He has published papers in several journals, including the Journal of Accounting and Economics,The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting Horizons. Research awards include the AAA Competitive Manuscript Award, AAA Outstanding International Accounting Dissertation, Deloitte &Touche Doctoral Fellowship, and others. He currently serves as an editor for The Accounting Review.

His teaching interests are in financial and international accounting. He particularly enjoys teaching introductory financial accounting, where he currently instructs more than 600 students per year. He has received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Oklahoma Society of CPAs, along with many other teaching honors at the university, college, and departmental level. He recently completed a textbook for the course he teaches titled Financial Accounting, with David Spiceland and Don Herrmann.

Professor Thomas was married to Julee in 1990 and has four children (born): Olivia (September 30, 1995), Jake (July 28, 1997), Eli (July 4, 2000), and Luke (May 18, 2004). He enjoys basketball, tennis, golf, ping pong, crossword puzzles, scuba diving, and coaching little league sports.

OU Price College of Business

John T. Steed School of Accounting

307 W. Brooks, suite 212B

Norman, Oklahoma 73019

(405) 325-5789

wthomas@ou.edu