Patrick E. Hopkins is Dean at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, the James R. Hodge Chair of Excellence, and Professor of Accounting. He has won numerous teaching awards and is known for his influential research, earning the American Accounting Association’s prestigious Wildman Medal and the Distinguished Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award. He served on the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council and is past editor of The Accounting Review.