College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Professor of Accountancy and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Faculty Fellow

Ph.D., Accounting, University of Texas at Austin, 2006
M.S., Accounting, Brigham Young University, 1999
B.S., Accounting, Brigham Young University, 1999

Assistant Professor of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009 to present
Assistant Professor, Florida State University, 2006-2009
Financial Statement Auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers, 1999-2000
Student Instructor, Brigham Young University, 1999

Hobson, J., Mayew, W., Venkatachalam, M. 2012. Analyzing Speech to Detect Financial Misreporting. Journal of Accounting Research, 50: 349-392

Elliott, W. , Hobson, J., Jackson, K. 2011. Disaggregating Management Earnings Forecasts to Reduce Investors' Susceptibility to Earnings Fixation. The Accounting Review, 86: 185-208

Hobson, J. 2011. Do the Benefits of Reducing Accounting Complexity Persist in Markets Prone to Bubble? Contemporary Accounting Research, 28: 957-989

Hobson, J., Mellon, M., Stevens, D. 2011. Determinants of Moral Judgments Regarding Budgetary Slack: An Experimental Examination of Pay Scheme and Personal Values. Behavioral Research in Accounting

Teaching interests include Audit and Financial Accounting

Research interests include Financial Accounting, Audit, and Behavioral Finance/Economics