Accounting External Speaker Series: Professor Edward Riedl

Eddie Riedl is the John F. Smith Professor of Management, and Professor of Accounting at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University. He was Chair of the Accounting Department from 2016-2022. He was an editor at the leading accounting research journal, The Accounting Review (2018-2022), as well as at Contemporary Accounting Research (2017-2020).

He joined Boston University in 2011; he was previously at the Harvard Business School from 2002-2011. Prior to entering academia, he worked at a Big 6 auditor, in internal audit at a Fortune 250 oil company, and in corporate reporting at a real estate brokerage house.

His research focuses on three mega-trends within financial reporting over the past two decades: fair value accounting, international reporting, and expanding the reporting model (including ESG – environmental, social, and governance – reporting). He has published in the top-tier accounting (The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research) and management journals (Management Science). His research is award-winning, including receipt of the Competitive Manuscript Award (given for the top accounting dissertation). He has published extensively with doctoral students and junior faculty.