Christopher Williams

Research

Christopher Williams' areas of interest include the role of accounting information in capital markets, the reporting and regulation of financial institutions, and international financial reporting issues.

Executive Leadership

Christopher D. Williams is an Assistant Professor of Accounting, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Norman E. Auerbach Faculty Fellow at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business. He received his PhD from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and he received both a Masters and BS in accounting from the Marriot School of Management at Brigham Young University.

Professor Williams’ research focuses on understanding the role of accounting information in creating and resolving risk and uncertainty in both capital markets and financial institutions. His work has been published in leading peer reviewed accounting journals and has been presented in front of both domestic and international accounting standard setters as well as members of the Federal Reserve. His more recent work focuses on how discretionary accounting choices made by banks affect both the risk of the individual bank and the bank’s contribution to systemic risk. Since coming to the Ross Business School Professor Williams has taught financial statement analysis to both MBA and Masters of Accounting students.