G. Peter Wilson is the Joseph L. Sweeney Chair of Accounting at Boston College and has served on faculties at Lake-Sumter Community College, Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is widely recognized for his research and teaching, having published articles in several academic journals and received numerous teaching honors.  

Professor Wilson has given over 200 speeches to academics and practitioners, is a member of the Fave Board of Directors, served as a teaching consultant for a Big-Five public accounting firm, taught financial statement analysis at a major investment firm, and developed and taught short courses for two Fortune-50 companies. He and his wife Carolyn are creating text/software that seeks to integrate accounting research, teaching, and practice; procedural and conceptual skills; and the interplay between a reporting entity’s business and accounting decisions and decisions by users of its accounting reports.

Professor Wilson received the American Accounting Association's Competitive Manuscript Award in 1986, the Distinguished Teaching Award at the Stanford Business School in 1988, the Teacher of the Year Award at the Sloan School of Management, M.I.T., in 1995, the American Accounting Association’s 2005 Outstanding Educator Award, a Teaching with New Media Award at Boston College in 2009 and 2010, and the 2010 American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award. He is a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society’s Museum Committee, the American Accounting Association and the Financial Executives Institute. Additionally, he was the 2002-2003 President of the American Accounting Association and has served on the Accounting Education Change Commission and the Editorial Boards of The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, The Financial Officer’s Tax and Management Report, and Issues in Accounting Education.  

Professor Wilson's publications include:

"Teaching and Learning Can be Energizing," Issues in Accounting Education, June 1999.

"The Role of Taxes in Location and Sourcing Decisions," Studies in International Taxation, University of Chicago Press, 1993, Chapter 6, Editors: A. Giovannini, G. Hubbard, J. Slemrod.

"Firms' Responses to Anticipated Reductions in Tax Rates: The Tax Reform Act of 1986," Journal of Accounting Research, 1992 supplement (Joint with Myron Scholes and Mark Wolfson).

"The Incremental Information Content of the Accrual and Funds Component of Earnings After Controlling For Earnings," The Accounting Review, April 1987.

Professor Wilson's awards include:

American Accounting Association Outstanding Educator Award, 2005.

Inducted into American Accounting Association North East Region's Accounting Hall of Fame in April 2002.

American Accounting Association 1985-86 Competitive Manuscript Award for best paper by an accounting academic within five years of thesis completion, "The Incremental Information Content of the Accrual and Funds Component of Earnings After Controlling For Earnings."

Anne T. Bass Faculty Fellow for 1987-88, Stanford Graduate School of Business.

M.I.T., Sloan School of Management Excellence in Teaching Award, 1996-97.

M.I.T., Graduate Student Council, Teaching Award, 1994-95.

MIT, Sloan School of Management Teacher of the Year, 1994-95.

Stanford Graduate School of Business, Distinguished Teaching Award, 1987-1988.

Stanford Graduate School of Business, Honorable Mention for Distinguished Teaching, 1986-1987.

Stanford Graduate School of Business, Rookie Teacher Award, 1985-1986.

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