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Timothy Eaton

Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor & Professor

Accountancy


Timothy Eaton

Contact Information

Office Hours

  • T/R 7:45-8:30 (FSB 2030)
  • T/R 9:50-10:05 (FSB 0026)
  • T/R 11:25-12:00 (FSB 2030)
  • Plus flexible hours each week - see Canvas.

Links

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Profile

Academic Background

  • Ph.D. The University of Tennessee, Business Administration
  • M.Acc. The University of Tennessee

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor, Miami University (2022-present)
  • Professor of Accountancy, Miami University (2015-present).
  • Associate Professor of Accountancy, Miami University.
  • Associate Professor of Accounting, Marquette University.

Recent Publications

  • EATON, T. (2024). The Accounting Supply Chain Challenge: Understanding Its Root Causes and Identifying Factors and Themes for a Plan of Action. Accounting Horizons.
  • CHURYK, N. T., EATON, T., MATUSZEWSKI, L. J. (2024). Accounting education literature review (2023). Journal of Accounting Education, 67, 100901. doi:10.1016/j.jaccedu.2024.100901.
  • EATON, T., HAZEL, M., PYZOHA, J., ZHANG, J. (2024). How Does the Accounting Profession and Higher Education Currently Approach Ethics Training. Issues in Accounting Education.
  • BRINK, W., EATON, T., HEITGER, D., ZHANG, J. (2024). The Accounting Supply Chain Challenge: Understanding Its Root Causes and Identifying Factors and Themes for a Plan for Action. Accounting Horizons.
  • EATON, T., SCHABER, B. (2024). Accountants Driving Sustainable Change: Where are we now and where are we going? Strategic Finance.
  • EATON, T., BRINK, W., HEITGER, D. (2023). How Students View the Accounting Profession. Journal of Accountancy.
  • EATON, T., SCHABER, B. (2023). ESG Reporting: What Accountants Need to Know! New Accountant.
  • BRINK, W., DE MEYST, K., EATON, T. (2022). The Impact of Human Rights Reporting and Presentation Formats on Non-Professional Investors’ Perceptions and Intentions to Invest. Sustainability, 14 (4), 2403. doi:10.3390/su14042403.
  • EATON, T., ZHANG, J., LARSON, A. (2022). Building a Bot. Strategic Finance.
  • WIELAND, M., EATON, T., WAHLEN, J., NICHOLS, D. C. (2021). Managers’ Investment Decisions: Incentives and Economic Consequences Arising from Leases. Journal of Risk and Financial Management (14).
  • EATON, T., SWYERS, J. (2020). 10 Tips for New Accounting Professionals in the Pandemic Enviornment. New Accountant.
  • EATON, T., ZHANG, J., PORWAL, S. (2020). An Introduction to Alteryx: A powerful new data wrangling tool for accountants. Journal of Accountancy.
  • ZHANG, J., PORWAL, S., EATON, T. (2020). Data preparation for accountants: Extract, transform, and load - With ETL processes, CPAs can prepare data for analytics and visualization.. Journal of Accountancy.
  • BURKE, Q., EATON, T., WANG, M. (2019). Trade liberalization and conditional accounting conservatism: evidence from import competition. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 53 (3), 811-844. doi:10.1007/s11156-018-0767-9.
  • BRINK, W., EATON, T., GRENIER, J., REFFETT, A. (2019). Deterring Unethical Behavior in Online Labor Markets. Journal of Business Ethics, 156 (1), 71-88. doi:10.1007/s10551-017-3570-y.
  • EATON, T., GRENIER, J., LAYMAN, D. (2019). Accounting and Cybersecurity Risk Management. Current Issues in Auditing, 13 (2), C1-C9. doi:10.2308/ciia-52419.
  • CHEN, P. C., LIAO BURKE, Q., EATON, T. (2017). An Empirical Examination of Mark-To-Market Accounting for Corporate Pension Plans. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2016.11.001.
  • EATON, T., BURKE, Q., CHEN, P.-C. (2015). Marking Pensions to Market: What Are the Implications? CPA Journal, 85 (5), 30-33.

Honors & Awards

  • 2022, Lybrand Research Award, Certificate of Merit,IMA
  • 2022, ASG Outstanding Professor
  • 2017-2023, Journal of Accounting Education, Editorial Board
  • 2018: Winner, Richard T. Farmer Teaching Excellence Award
  • 2017,2019, 2021-2023 Ernst & Young Teaching Scholar
  • 2011-2019, Commendation, Miami University, CELT Top 100 Faculty
  • 2014, 2017, 2018 FSB Summer Research Grant
  • 2010: Winner, Richard T. Farmer Teaching Excellence Award
  • National Co-Chair, Deloitte and Touche Trueblood Committee
  • Faculty Fellow, Ernst & Young, Academic Resource Center
  • Winner, The CPA Journal's Max Block Award for most outstanding article Policy Analysis category Selected as Alumni Teaching Scholar, Miami University (CELT).
  • Journal of Accountancy Citation of Excellence.

Areas of Expertise

  • Financial accounting
  • Pension
  • Whistleblowing

Biography

Tim Eaton serves as the Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor and EY Teaching Scholar at Miami University. He has been involved in case and curriculum development both in his classes and in the profession. Dr. Eaton was one of three accounting faculty from across the country appointed to the initial year of Ernst & Young's Academic Resource Center, served on the AAA Pathways Commission and been past chair of the AAA Trueblood Committee. He loves teaching and is a two-time winner of Miami University's Farmer School of Business Outstanding Professor Award as well as Miami University's Association of Student Government's Outstanding Professor Award. In addition to teaching and service responsibilities, Dr. Eaton believes in actively contributing to research in the profession. He has published over sixty articles in a wide variety of outlets such as Journal of Business Ethics, Issues in Accounting Education, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accounting & Public Policy, Advances in Accounting, and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, among others.

Courses

  • ACC 422-A 8:30-9:50 TR 0026 FSB
  • ACC 422-B 10:05-11:25 TR 0026 FSB
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