Wayne Thomas joined the University of Oklahoma in 2000. He teaches financial and intermediate accounting . He has received numerous teaching awards at the department, college, university, state, and national levels. He was named Outstanding Accounting Educator by the Oklahoma Society of CPAs and received the Cook Prize from the American Accounting Association for undergraduate teaching excellence. He co-authors several textbooks with McGraw-Hill: Financial Accounting, Financial Accounting for Managers, and Intermediate Accounting.
Wayne’s research interests include accounting information in capital markets, earnings manipulation techniques, the importance of financial disclosures, and financial statement analysis. His work has been published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Accounting, Organizations and Society, and several other journals. He has served in editorship roles for The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons,and Journal of International Accounting Research. He received the Competitive Manuscript Award from the American Accounting Association and was named a George Lynn Cross Research Professor, the University of Oklahoma’s highest research designation.
Wayne is married to Julee, and they have four children, and three grandchildren. He enjoys tennis, golf, biking, the outdoors, volunteer activities, and most of all, spending time with his family.
The University of Oklahoma Michael F. Price College of Business has experienced significant growth over the past five years, becoming OU’s second-largest college with over 7,000 students. The college offers highly ranked undergraduate, master’s, executive and doctoral programs across six academic divisions. More information is available at price.ou.edu
