Presenters

Ryan Sommerfeldt

Ryan Sommerfeldt is an assistant professor in the School of Accountancy at Brigham Young University, where he currently teaches courses in managerial accounting. Prior to joining the faculty at Brigham Young University, he was a faculty member at Washington State University. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Brigham Young University, and his doctoral degree from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to earning his doctoral degree, Ryan worked on the advisory team at Squire and Company, PC, and owned and operated a landscaping company. His research lies at the intersection of managerial accounting and audit and has been published in top-tier journals such as The Accounting Review, Management Science, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business Ethics, and Issues in Accounting Education. His research specifically focuses on the effects of management controls designed to deter and detect misreporting, factors that influence the rationalization of misreporting, and factors that motivate and incentivize employee performance. In his free time, he enjoys sports and spending time with his wife and four children.