Rate My Professor Lisa Kutcher

Lisa Kutcher, Ph.D., CPA, serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Accounting in the College of Business at Colorado State University, a position she has held since 2018 following a brief tenure as Interim Chair. She joined the CSU faculty in 2008 as Associate Professor, was promoted to Professor in 2016, and also served as Academic Director of the Undergraduate Accounting Program from August to December 2017 and Deloitte Foundation Faculty Fellow from 2016 to 2024. Prior to CSU, Kutcher was Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon from 2003 to 2008 and at The Ohio State University from 1999 to 2003. She earned her Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Colorado at Boulder in August 1999 and her B.S. in Finance and Management from Chapman University in May 1995. Kutcher is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of Colorado, completing 40 hours of Continuing Professional Education annually.

Her research and teaching interests encompass financial accounting and reporting, valuation, earnings quality, firm-specific currency exposure, repatriation taxes, book-to-tax differences, stock-based compensation, SEC comment letters on permanently reinvested earnings, and cross-country corporate tax rates. Select publications include Downes, J. F., M. E. Mathis, and L. Kutcher (2020), “Firm-Specific Currency Exposure, Repatriation, and the Market Value of Repatriation Taxes,” The Journal of the American Taxation Association; Brushwood, J., D. Johnston, L. Kutcher, and J. Stekelberg (2019), “Did the FASB’s Simplification Initiative Increase Errors in Analysts’ Implied ETR Forecasts? Evidence from Early Adoption of ASU 2016-09,” The Journal of the American Taxation Association; Brushwood, J., D. Johnston, and L. Kutcher (2017), “The Market Valuation of the Permanent Book-to-Tax Differences Generated by Stock-Based Compensation Awards,” The Journal of the American Taxation Association; Eiler, L., and L. Kutcher (2014), “Disclosure Decisions Surrounding Permanently Reinvested Foreign Earnings,” The Journal of the American Taxation Association; and Bryant-Kutcher, L., D. A. Guenther, and M. Jackson (2012), “How Do Cross-Country Differences in Corporate Tax Rates Affect Firm Value?,” The Journal of the American Taxation Association, recipient of the 2013 Outstanding Paper Award. Kutcher has earned the MAcc Most Impactful Faculty Award (2020), Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award from the CSU College of Business (2014), multiple Beta Alpha Psi Outstanding Faculty Awards (2017, 2013), and various teaching excellence awards from prior institutions. She has chaired department search committees, the undergraduate program committee, and served on graduate program and curriculum review committees at CSU, while contributing as an ad hoc reviewer to journals including The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of the American Taxation Association.