Jake Thornock

Professor Thornock is a professor of accounting in the Marriott School of Management at BYU and holds the John and Nancy Hardy Chaired Professorship. He joined BYU from the University of Washington, where he was a tenured associate professor of accounting and the PwC Faculty Fellow.

Jake has diverse research interests, including interest in taxation, tax havens, earnings information content and information technologies. His research has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Accounting & Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Management Science and Financial Management. Jake's research has been cited or featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Week, Bloomberg, Fox News, and NPR, and has been presented at the IRS, the SEC and a congressional subcommittee.

Professor Thornock completed his doctoral studies at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, where he was awarded the William Delozier Fellowship for Outstanding Doctoral Student. He earned his undergraduate and master's degrees in accounting at BYU.

In practice, he worked as a financial advisor for a regional brokerage firm and as a tax accountant. He has also consulted for a large financial company and a small tech startup. He is a co-founder of Accounting Coding Camp LLC.

Education

• PhD, Accounting, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010
• BS, Accounting, Brigham Young University, 2006
• MAcc, Accounting, Brigham Young University, 2006

Experience

• Associate Professor of Accounting (with tenure), University of Washington, 2014–2016
• Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Washington, 2010–2014

Awards

• FARS Outstanding Discussion Award, FARS, 2021
• BYU School of Accountancy Excellence Award, BYU SOA, 2021
• FARS Distinguished Service Award, FARS, 2020
• John and Nancy Hardy Chaired Professorship, 2019
• Best Paper, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section,, American Accounting Association, 2019
• Scholarly Excellence Award, Marriott School of Business, 2019
• Outstanding discussant - FARS Midyear 2018, 2018
• Outstanding discussant - JATA Conference 2018, 2018
• Best paper - Accounting Horizons 2018, 2018
• EY Distinguished Fellowship, 2018
• Robert Smith Fellowship, 2016
• Andrew V. Smith Award for Excellence in Research, University of Washington, 2015
• National Service Award, AAA, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, 2015
• Ron Crockett Award for Innovation in Education, University of Washington, 2014
• Fowler Award for Special Achievement in Accounting, University of Washington, 2013
• Outstanding PhD Mentor in Accounting, University of Washington, 2013
• Third Prize, Annual Academic Competition, Chicago Quantitative Alliance, 2012
• Delozier Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student, University of North Carolina, 2010