Tom Hayes,
Faculty Spotlight
Associate Professor. Accounting Bess and Hill Williams Endowed Chair of Business
Offering a Summer Accounting Elective That’s Out of the Ordinary
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r. Tom Hayes joined the faculty in the College of Business at UAFS in the fall of 2006 as an assistant professor of accounting. He was appointed a Bess and Hill Williams Endowed Chair of Business in 2010 and promoted to associate professor of accounting in 2011. Hayes received his Master of Accountancy from the University of Missouri and his Ph.D. in accounting from the University of North Texas. Originally from Tulsa, Okla., Hayes worked in public accounting before entering academia. He is currently a registered CPA in Oklahoma. Since joining the College, Hayes has taught courses in principles of financial accounting, intermediate accounting, auditing, and forensic accounting. For the past several years, he has instructed a Maymester accounting course that allows students the opportunity to travel to a major U.S. city for an inside look at the standard-setting process while enjoying the sights. Past Maymester destinations have included Chicago, Dallas and Washington, D.C. While in Washington, D.C., Hayes arranged site visits to the Securities and Exchange
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Commission, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and the Government Accountability Office. Students in the May 2013 course visited the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board and the American Institute of CPAs, all located in New York City. Hayes cites the areas of auditing and accounting education as his research interests. He recently had a paper titled “Using Pretest Scores to Predict Student Performance – Evidence from Upper-level Accounting Courses” published in the International Journal of Education Research. In addition to his teaching and research responsibilities, Hayes also serves on several campus committees, including the University Awards Committee and the College of Business Assurance of Learning Committee. He is a past student organization faculty adviser and looks forward to organizing a new accounting group in the College down the road. Hayes resides in Alma with his wife, Jeannie, and three sons.
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