Linda Nichols

Biography

Linda Nichols joined the faculty of The University of Tulsa Collins College of Business in 2011 as Associate Dean, Director of Graduate Business Programs and Collins Professor of Accounting. Linda is a CPA and earned a PhD in Accounting at Louisiana State University. Before joining The University of Tulsa, she held the position of Ernst and Young Professor and Director of Accounting Programs at Texas Tech University where she was employed for over twenty-one years. Her association with the oil industry began in 1980 when she worked for an international accounting firm in Houston as part of the oil and gas industry audit division. She later joined Columbia Gas Development, an exploration and production company, where she held the position of supervisor of budgeting and economics. Linda continues to be heavily involved with the oil industry through consulting and providing training for oil companies across the globe. In the past ten years, she has provided industry training in Angola, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ecuador, Brazil, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, China, Thailand, Russia, Hungary, Italy, Argentina, Morocco, Qatar, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and in the U.S. Linda is author of a BNA portfolio in Oil and Gas Accounting which covers all aspects of upstream accounting under both U.S. and international GAAP. She also serves as Associate Editor of the Oil, Gas and Energy Quarterly, and serves on the Editorial Board of the Petroleum Accounting an Financial Management Journal. Linda has published numerous articles dealing with issues of accounting for the oil industry. Linda has received both national and international recognition for her accomplishments. In 2007, she received the Texas Society of CPAs’ Outstanding Accounting Educator Award, and in 1999, she was chosen as Outstanding Educator of the Year by the American Woman’s Society of CPAs. In 2003, she was chosen by the Fulbright Commission of the U.S. in conjunction with the government of Austria to serve as the Johannes-Kepler Distinguished Chair in International Business. Linda’s service to the accounting profession includes a term as chair of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Committee of the AICPA which prepares the financial accounting and reporting section of the CPA examination. She recently served as a Strategic Planning Team Leader for the Accounting Programs Leadership Group (APLG) as well as Treasurer for that organization. She has also served as President of the South Plains Chapter of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants (TSCPA), and as a trustee of the Educational Foundation of the TSCPA.

Research Interest

Energy Accounting and financial reporting; international accounting and financial reporting.