New Faculty: Dr. Peter Johnson
The School welcomes Peter Johnson to our faculty.
Johnson m
oved from Utah to join us, bringing his extensive knowledge and experience in financial reporting and firm valuation and a delightful personality.
Johnson has been appointed The Ernst & Young Fellow of Accounting. Johnson explains why he came to The University: “Great faculty, great resources for faculty development and research, and great students...and of course the best football in the country.”
He has been pleasantly surprised by the exceptional friendliness of the faculty and staff, and he has also enjoyed the respect the students show for the faculty.
Johnson completed his bachelors and masters degrees at Southern Utah University where he also played NCAA Division I basketball, and received his PhD from Arizona State University. He worked in public accounting for Grant Thornton LLP and in his own CPA practice. He was a member of the faculty at Brigham Young University for 8 years.
He hopes to “continue to enhance the reputation of the UA accounting program through research publications and student support.” His greatest desire is “to assist and prepare students for their careers within the accounting profession.” He also plans to work closely with doctoral students to produce quality academic research. His research interest revolves around how earnings and expectation management used by firms meet or beat analysts’ expectations and how these activities affect investors’ assessment of firm value.
Other aspirations including the continual improvement of his classroom teaching skills and the development of min-case projects to provide students with more “real world” examples that will stimulate active participation. Johnson explains that “teaching and working with students is what I enjoy most about my job.” “It is exciting to learn with the students to solve problems and to research important topics that affect the accounting profession and the business community.”
Johnson plans to be actively involved in the community through service as he and his family have “always been involved in one form or another of service.” He and his wife Stephanie Lyn are proud parents of four children.