Edward Maydew
David E. Hoffman Distinguished Professor of Accounting, Area Chair of Accounting and Senior Executive Director of the UNC Tax Center
Edward Maydew’s teaching and research interests include taxation and accounting, the intersection of the two and their roles in economic decisions.
He is coauthor of “Scholes & Wolfson’s Taxes and Business Strategy” with Merle Erickson, Michelle Hanlon and Terry Shevlin.
He has published his research in the leading academic journals in his field, including the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial Economics, among others.
Dr. Maydew has received awards for excellence in research and teaching, including the Distinguished Contributions to the Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association. He has won the American Taxation Association’s Outstanding Manuscript Award three times.
Businessweek named him as one of the top professors at the University of North Carolina and the University of Chicago. At UNC Kenan-Flagler he has been recognized as an MBA Teaching “All Star” more than 10 times and received four Weatherspoon Awards for Excellence in Teaching.
He served as an editor and lead editor of The Accounting Review and on the editorial boards of Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research and Review of Accounting Studies.
He has consulted with leading firms on complex tax and accounting matters.
Before joining UNC Kenan-Flagler, Dr. Maydew was on the faculty of the University of Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell University, the University of Iowa and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He was employed by a predecessor of PwC in its Chicago office before he began his academic career.
He received his PhD from the University of Iowa and BBA from Iowa State University.
