Haslam College of Business - Terry Neal

Biography

Terry L. Neal, CPA, is the Richard L. Townsend Accounting Chair in the Department of Accounting and Information Management at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Haslam College of Business. He also is a research fellow with the college’s Neel Corporate Governance Center. He currently teaches a graduate course in advanced financial accounting topics and has previously taught undergraduate and graduate courses.

Neal’s research primarily addresses issues related to corporate governance and auditor independence, with a particular emphasis on the role of the audit committee as a corporate governance mechanism. His work has been published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Accounting Horizons, The International Journal of Accounting, and Corporate Governance: An International Review. He currently serves on the editorial board at Contemporary Accounting Research.

Prior to joining UT, Neal was on the faculty of the Douglas J. Von Allmen School of Accountancy at the University of Kentucky. He worked in the Nashville and Knoxville offices of KPMG and in the internal auditing department of Lockheed Martin before entering academia.

He has taught continuing professional education courses for one of the Big 4 accounting firms and is the author of CCH’s GAAP Guide, a financial accounting reference book for practicing CPAs.