Faculty Profile

Dr. Derek C. Johnson
Assistant Professor

4333P Van Munching Hall
Phone: 301-405-7687
E-mail: djohnson@rhsmith.umd.edu

Ph.D., Accounting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011

Dr. Derek C. Johnson has research and teaching interests in both financial and managerial accounting. In his doctoral dissertation at MIT, he studied the extent to which buyers and sellers in negotiated acquisitions specify the accounting rules used to describe purchase price adjustments. Dr. Johnson found that accounting rules are more flexible, when the parties expect information asymmetry to decline by the time the deal closes. Prior to completing his Ph.D., he completed a master’s degree in financial economics from the University of Oxford in the UK, and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Minnesota.