User:Michael Petersen

Dr. Michael Petersen, Ph.D.,CMA,CFM, specializes in a variety of accounting topics, including downstream revenue management, cost drivers in the healthcare industry, sticky costs, and the behavioral aspects of the balanced scorecard and various biases. His research has appeared in Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and Advances in Accounting.

Before teaching, Petersen was an accounting supervisor for Intermountain Healthcare, a senior accountant for American Stores, and a controller for a Ch 13 Bankruptcy Trustee.

His love of teaching lead Petersen to seek a Ph.D. at the University of Iowa where he graduated with a degree in Business Administration, Accounting Emphasis. From there he taught the undergraduate managerial accounting class to accounting majors at Arizona State University, and the managerial accounting class for the evening MBA program. In 2008 he began teaching at Thunderbird School of Global Management where he taught financial and managerial accounting, as well as corporate financial reporting and financial statement analysis. He is currently a visiting asst. professor at Utah State University, where he is teaching both financial and managerial accounting.

Before attending college, Petersen spent two years in Japan serving a church mission. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a BS in Accounting, an MBA in Finance and a MAcc in Managerial Accounting