Patrick Hopkins Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA

Patrick E. Hopkins is the Glaubinger Chair for Undergraduate Leadership and Chair of the Undergraduate Program at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. Prior to his current appointment, Professor Hopkins served as Chair of Graduate Accounting Programs at the Kelley School of Business. Professor Hopkins received his BS and MAcc from the University of Florida and his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to entering the accounting doctoral program, Professor Hopkins served as a senior consultant with the Emerging Business Services practice of Deloitte, Haskins and Sells in Miami, Florida. Professor Hopkins has been at IU since 1995, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on financial reporting for mergers, acquisitions, and changes in corporate structure. He also served as a Visiting Professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he taught courses on global financial reporting and on accounting for mergers, acquisitions, and changes in corporate structure. During his career, Professor Hopkins won each of the top teaching awards in the Kelley School of Business, including the Trustees Teaching Award, the Schuyler F. Otteson Award, and the Sauvain Award. He also teaches in international and online executive MBA programs at Indiana University, and in the doctoral program at HHL University in Leipzig, Germany. Professor Hopkins is also a widely respected research scholar in the area of financial reporting, and investor and analyst judgment and decision making. His work has appeared in top accounting journals, including The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting Organizations and Society, and has been discussed in business press publications, including Barron’s, CFO, and The Deal. He is the past winner of the American Accounting Association’s Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award, American Accounting Association’s Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award, the American Accounting Association’s Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Best Research Paper Award, the Indiana University Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, and Kelley School of Business Outstanding Research Award. Professor Hopkins also served on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council and is currently the Vice President of Research for the International Association for Accounting Education and research.