Tom Selling

Bio

Tom Selling has served on the faculties of Dartmouth College, Wake Forest University, MIT and is an emeritus professor of the Thunderbird Graduate School of Global Management.  His research has been published in numerous outlets, including The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, and Financial Analysts’ Journal.  He also co-authored two editions of the textbook, International Financial Reporting and Analysis: A Contextual Emphasis.  He has served as the Academic Accounting Fellow at the SEC, on the PCAOB’s Standing Advisory Group and the AICPA’s Financial Accounting and Reporting Subcommittee for the CPA Examination.  

Recent publications

“Non-GAAP Financial Metrics: Why Accountants Should Care,” with Gregory Sommers, The CPA Journal, June 2016.

“On the Coexistence of Professionalism and Commercialism in CPA Firms: A Path Forward,” The CPA Journal, May 2015.

“The Problem of Management Bias in Accounting Estimates: An Investor Perspective on Root Causes and the Solution,” with Bo Nordlund, Business Horizons, Sep-Oct 2015.

"Bumps in the Road to IFRS Adoption: Is a U-turn Possible?" Accounting Horizons, March 2013.

Teaching

ACCT 6412 Mergers and Acquisitions
ACCT 5317 Financial Accounting Theory