Kristian (Kris) Allee is a Professor and the Doyle Z. Williams Chair in Professional Accounting at the University of Arkansas. He graduated from Indiana University with a PhD in Accounting and earned his BS and MAcc degrees at Brigham Young University. Kris worked at Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin—Madison as an assistant professor of accounting before joining the faculty at the University of Arkansas and was an associate economist for the Federal Reserve Banks in St. Louis, MO and Charlotte, NC. He teaches or has taught primarily financial accounting, with classes ranging from financial accounting to undergrads to financial accounting research to PhD students. He also is teaching or has taught financial statement analysis to undergraduate, MBA, and MAcc students. Kris’ research examines firms’ disclosure policies, textual analysis and computational linguistics on firm disclosures, the production and use of financial statements by small businesses, cost of equity capital estimates, and corporate tax policies and behavior. He has published research in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Accounting Organizations and Society, Management Science, the Journal of Financial Reporting, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Management Accounting Research, and several other journals. Kris and his wife (Jessica) have five children and live in Fayetteville, AR.