Rate My Professor Michael Crawley

Michael J. Crawley is the Teaching Assistant Professor and Assistant Department Chair in the Department of Accounting at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He plays a key role in departmental leadership and instruction within the Business & Economics faculty. Previously, Crawley served as an assistant professor in accounting at Indiana University starting in 2010, shortly after earning his doctorate.

Crawley holds a Ph.D. in accounting from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, awarded in 2010. He received both his M.B.A. and B.S. in accounting from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in 2002. As a Certified Public Accountant, he brings practical expertise to his academic roles. His research interests include financial accounting and reporting, capital markets, macroeconomic consequences of accounting, accounting conservatism, and financial analysts. Notable among his contributions is the working paper 'The Effect of Accounting Conservatism on Macroeconomic Expectations' (2011). His Google Scholar profile reflects 202 citations. At the University of Arkansas, Crawley advises honors theses on subjects like the firm-level effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on capital structure (2020), fixed assets accounting implications (2023), and Razorback Analytics and Consulting (2025). He also serves on dissertation committees.