Cristi A. Gleason is the Carlson-KPMG Research Professor of Accounting at the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. She is an editor at The Accounting Review. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1998. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Iowa in 2003, she was an assistant professor at the University of Arizona. Professor Gleason’s research examines corporate financial reporting decisions, including income tax reporting and contingent liabilities, and the impact of those decisions on firm value. She also researches the role of analysts as information intermediaries. Her paper, “Last chance earnings management: Using tax expense to achieve analysts’ forecasts,” co-authored with Dan Dhaliwal and Lillian Mills won the American Tax Association 2007 Manuscript Award. Her research is published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and National Tax Journal. Currently, Professor Gleason is an Editor for The Accounting Review. Professor Gleason currently teaches a PhD seminar. She has also taught Intermediate Accounting II (Valuation of Financial Claims) for accounting majors, Corporate Financial Reporting in the Executive MBA and MBA programs, Strategic Cost Management in the MBA program, and an intermediate financial accounting class for finance majors. She received the Gilbert P. Maynard award for Excellence in Accounting Instruction in 2013 and 2017. Professor Gleason served as the Department Executive Officer in Accounting from July 2020-June 2024.

Current research interests: Financial reporting for income tax; unrecognized tax benefits; financial analysts; corporate governance; interim financial reporting