Vernon J. Richardson

Vernon J. Richardson is Distinguished Professor of Accounting and the W. Glezen Chair in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. He received his BA, MAcc, and MBA from Brigham Young University and a PhD in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has taught at the University of Arkansas, Aarhus University, Baruch College, Brigham Young University, Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, Baruch College, University of Kansas, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University and China Europe International Business School (Shanghai). He was formerly editor at the Accounting Review and is currently an editor at Accounting Horizons. He also served as associate editor at MIS Quarterly, Journal of Information Systems and the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems. He has published articles in the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Operations Management, and the Journal of Marketing. Dr. Richardson has authored the six textbooks emphasizing data analytics with McGraw Hill titled “Introduction to Business Analytics (with Marcia Weidenmier Watson), “Data Analytics for Accounting” (with Katie Terrell and Ryan Teeter), “Introduction to Data Analytics for Accounting” (with Katie Terrell and Ryan Teeter) and “Accounting Information Systems” textbook (with Janie Chang and Rod Smith), “Cost Accounting: A Data Analytics Approach” (with Margaret Christ and D. Kip Holderness) and “Financial Statement Analysis: A Data Analytics Approach (with Robert Resutek). But he is proudest of all of his wife and 12 children.