Teri Lombardi Yohn Named Accounting Horizons Editor

Teri Lombardi Yohn, Professor of Accounting and PwC Faculty Fellow at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University Bloomington, has been named the next editor of Accounting Horizons.

Prior to joining Indiana University, Yohn served on the faculty of Georgetown University for 15 years.  She also served as the Academic Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the SEC in 2005-2006 and on the faculty of University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2006-2007. Yohn received her Ph.D. in Accounting from Indiana University. She researches the effects of corporate disclosures on the stock market and the systematic relations between current financial information and future profitability, as well as restatement causes and disclosure choices and the effects of IFRS adoption on the capital markets.

Professor Yohn has published across a number of journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organization and Society, and Review of Accounting Studies. She has served on the editorial board of The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies and Accounting Horizons. Yohn has testified before the Senate on IFRS issues and served as a member of the Blue Ribbon Panel for Private Company Financial Reporting. She also served as the President of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association.  She teaches financial accounting to undergraduate students and a doctoral seminar on capital markets research. Yohn has received teaching awards from Indiana University and Georgetown University.

Professor Yohn will assume the duties of Accounting Horizons editor in late spring 2015 when co-editors Paul A. Griffin and Arnold M. Wright complete their three year terms.

Terry Shevlin
Chair, Publications Committee
tshevlin@uci.edu