Accounting Faculty Position Open to Economists

Tenure-track faculty opening at the assistant professor rank in Accounting, commencing September 2025.

Recruiting applicants that have completed (or nearly completed) a PhD in accounting, economics, financial economics, or a related discipline, including new graduates, those already holding positions at the rank of assistant professor or current postdocs. We are particularly interested in candidates with strong theoretical, quantitative, and/or computational training, and doing theory-based empirical and experimental research or applied theory with empirical implications in fields relevant to accounting such as information economics, financial institutions, industrial organization and organizational economics. Candidates should have an established record of or demonstrated potential for excellence in research and teaching. Teaching assignments may span undergraduate, MBA, MSBA, and Ph.D. Programs.

The Accounting group at Tepper is interdisciplinary and collaborative. Our strengths lie in the interface of accounting, economics, and data-analytics. Methodologically we place a strong emphasis on applied theory/empirical/experimental research grounded in accounting, economic, and/or computational theories. Examples of research by current faculty include economic consequences of climate reporting, cognitive biases in processing financial reports, tax evasion and income inequality, performance pay in knowledge creation, the role of accounting in banking regulations, and AI-assisted anomaly detection of accounting records.

We are at the frontier of accounting research aiming to address changing business needs due to rapid advancements in technology and the ubiquity of data by leveraging novel research approaches. The Accounting group and the Tepper School are ideally positioned to promote this innovation thanks to the established track-record of collaborations with Carnegie Mellon faculty in economics, finance, statistics, machine learning, and computer science.

The Tepper School of Business is committed to increasing the diversity of its community on a range of intellectual and cultural dimensions. We encourage applicants who will contribute to diversity, equity and inclusion through their research, teaching and service. To assist in meeting the needs of dual-career families, Carnegie Mellon University is a member of the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC).

Applicants should submit an application cover letter, a current CV, a current research paper, a research statement, and other evidence of research excellence such as publications or working papers, if available, and three recommendation letters via Interfolio. If you have any questions about the application, please contact Ms. Rosanne Christy at rosanne@andrew.cmu.edu or 412-268-1320.

Screening will commence immediately. In order to ensure full consideration, completed applications must be received by November 15^th, 2024.