Fisher College of Business

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Rick Johnston

Rick Johnston

Assistant Professor, Accounting

Areas of Expertise

Financial accounting
Sell-side analysis
Capital markets

Education

PhD, University of Pennsylvania
MBA, The University of Western Ontario
B. Comm, University of Toronto

Biography

Rick Johnston has been appointed assistant professor of accounting. Professor Johnston’s research interests involve capital markets and the use of information. Prior to academia, Rick worked in public accounting and in the brokerage industry. His areas of expertise are financial accounting and sell-side analysts.

Before joining Fisher College, Johnston was a visiting assistant professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. In 2002, he was an accounting lecturer at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Johnston also was a seminar leader for the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountant’s School of Accounting in Toronto, Canada.

Johnston received a PhD at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA at The Ivey School at The University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Toronto.

Contact Information

438 Fisher Hall
Fisher College of Business
2100 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 688-5791
johnston_365@cob.osu.edu

 
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