Rick Mergenthaler
Associate Professor of Accounting at the Eller College of Management
Rick Mergenthaler is currently an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Eller College of Management. Before coming to Eller, he was an associate professor at The University of Iowa, which he joined after earning his Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Washington.
Prior to academia, he was a senior associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers. His areas of expertise area rules-based versus principles-based standards, qualitative characteristics of financial information, and pro forma earnings disclosures. His current research includes the evolution of accounting disclosure, understanding changes in the verification and informativeness role of accounting information over time, constituent disagreement and accounting standards, and how fair value accounting impacts litigation risk.