Thomas D. Fields

Senior Lecturer in Accounting

Areas of Expertise:

Accounting - Financial Reporting

Research interests:

Accounting - Financial Reporting

Selected Publications:

"Empirical Research on Accounting Choice," Journal of Accounting & Economics, Issue 11(1-3), 225, with T. Lys, and L. Vincent, 2001
"An Empirical Evaluation of the Usefulness of Non-GAAP Accounting Measures in the Real Estate Investment Trust Industry," Review of Accounting Studies, Issue 3(1-2), 103, with S. Rangan, and S. Thiagarajan, 1998
"Voting Rules for the FASB," Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, Issue 11(1), 99, with R. King, 1996

Academic/professional activities:

Member: American Insitute of Certified Public Accountants; American Accounting Association

Awards/honors:

University Scholar in The Graduate School, Northwestern University, 1998-99
State Farm Companies Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award in Business, 1998
Coopers & Lybrand Fellow, 1996-97 and 1997-98

Personal interests:

Professor Fields enjoys fatherhood, bicycling, and science fiction.

Professor Fields joined the Olin faculty in 2006. Prior to that, he taught at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Northwestern University), Harvard Business School, and the Johnson Graduate School of Management (Cornell University). Before returning to graduate school, Tom worked as a C.P.A. for Price Waterhouse in St. Louis, performing audit services for a range of clients including Anheuser Busch, Union Electric (now Ameren Corporation), SSM Health Care, and a number of small manufacturers and non-profit organizations. Professor Fields' research interests involve the role of accounting information in contracting---particularly in the setting of accounting-based covenants in debt contracts.

Email: tfields@wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-6113

Ph.D. (Accounting) 2004, Kellogg Graduate School of Management
M.S. (Accounting) 1997, Kellogg Graduate School of Management
B.A. (Mathematics) 1991, Washington University in St. Louis
B.S. (Business Administration-summa cum laude) 1991, Washington University in St. Louis