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Petro Lisowsky

Assistant Professor of Accountancy and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Faculty Fellow

Educational Background

D.B.A., Boston University, 2008
M.Acc., University of Michigan, 2002
B.B.A., University of Michigan, 2001

Positions Held

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010 to present
Assistant Professor of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008 to present
Tax Policy Advisor, Internal Revenue Service, Large Business & International Division, 2005 to present
Teaching Assistant, Boston University, 2005-2008
Instructor, Boston University, 2006
Tax Associate, Deloitte LLP, Private Client Advisors Group, 2005
Research Assistant, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Tax Analysis, 2004
Accounting Analyst, U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Finance & Accounting Service, 2002-2003
Instructor, University of Michigan, 2001-2002
Tax Associate, Deloitte LLP, Comprehensive Tax Services Group, 2001

Recent Publications

Lennox, C., Lisowsky, P., Pittman, J. Forthcoming. Tax Aggressiveness and Accounting Fraud. Journal of Accounting Research

Lisowsky, P., Robinson, L., Schmidt, A. 2013. Do Publicly Disclosed Tax Reserves Tell Us About Privately Disclosed Tax Shelter Activity? Journal of Accounting Research, 51: 583-629

Lisowsky, P. 2010. Seeking Shelter: Empirically Modeling Tax Shelters Using Financial Statement Information. The Accounting Review, 85: 1693-1720

Honors and Awards

Raymond A. Hoffman Faculty Excellence Award, Department of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Faculty Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010 to present
Head's Award for Excellence in Accountancy Education for 2011-2012, Department of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010, 2011, 2012
Outstanding Paper Award for "Inferring U.S. Tax Liability from Financial Statement Information", Journal of the American Taxation Association, 2010
Outstanding Tax Dissertation Award for "Seeking Shelter: Empirically Modeling Tax Shelters Using Financial Statement Information", American Taxation Association/PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2009

Service Activities

Editorial Board Member, Journal of the American Taxation Association, 2012, 2013
Chair, Committee Member, Moderator, University of Illinois / Deloitte Tax Research Symposium, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013
Member, Journal of the American Taxation Association Conference Organizing Committee, 2010-2012
Member, American Taxation Association Tax Policy Committee (Liaison to IRS), 2009-2010
Member, American Taxation Association-KPMG Tax Doctoral Consortium Organizing Committee, 2009-2010

Teaching and Research Interests

Taxation and Tax Policy (corporate and individual, undergraduate and graduate levels); Financial Accounting (undergraduate and graduate levels)

Corporate Tax Compliance in Financial Statement Reporting and Auditor Settings; Economic Benefits and Costs of Corporate Tax Aggressiveness

 

Contact Information:

194 Wohlers Hall
1206 South Sixth Street
Champaign, IL, 61820
(217) 244-8091
lisowsky@illinois.edu


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