Kyle Peterson is the director of the School of Accounting, a professor of accounting, and the Robert and Lois Braddock Research Scholar at the Lundquist College of Business. His research expertise includes financial analysts, comparability, corporate disclosure including textual analysis, and financial statement complexity, and his research has been published in The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Management Science, and Contemporary Accounting Research.

Peterson received his PhD from the University of Michigan. Before beginning his academic career, he worked as a consultant and staff auditor for Deloitte & Touche LLP.

• PhD, University of Michigan, 2008
• MAcc, Brigham Young University, 2001
• BS, Accounting, Brigham Young University, 2001

• Financial analysts
• Comparability
• Corporate disclosure
• Textual analysis
• Financial statement complexity

• Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2023–2024
• Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2022–2023
• Outstanding Master of Accounting Faculty Award, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2021–2022
• Robert and Lois Braddock Research Scholar, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2020–present
• Thomas C. Stewart Distinguished Faculty Award, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2019
• James F. and Shirley J. Rippey Research Scholar, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2018–2020
• Goulet Outstanding Research Award, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2017
• Business Advisory Council Undergraduate Teaching Award, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2014
• Finance and Securities Analysis Center Summer Research Grant, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, 2012, 2013, 2015
• Bronze Medal Award (third place honors), Massachusetts CPA Exam, 2001