James Hansen

Professor of Accounting
Contact
Phone: 801-626-6433
Email: jameshansen2@weber.edu
Office: Wattis Business Building, Room 259
About
James Hansen joined the Weber State University faculty in fall 2013 and currently serves as a professor in the School of Accounting & Taxation in the Goddard School of Business & Economics.
He started his service as department chair in 2019 after spending the 2018-2019 academic year as the Academic Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the Securities and Exchange Commission and stepped down on June 30, 2024.
He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting from Brigham Young University and his PhD in accounting from the University of Georgia Terry College of Business. He teaches Financial Statement Analysis, along with Introductory and Advanced Auditing in the GSBE Undergraduate Accounting and Master of Accounting programs.
Hansen’s research focuses on audit quality and detection of earnings management. His research has been published in Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Current Issues in Auditing, Journal of Accounting Literature, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Portfolio Management, and The CPA Journal.
Education
PhD, Accounting, University of Georgia Terry College of Business, 2004
CPA, New Mexico
MS, Master of Accounting, Brigham Young University, 1999
BS, Accounting, Brigham Young University, 1999
Hobbies
Enjoy spending time with family (wife Doris, seven daughters: Ellie, Abigail, Lilyanne, Ginevieve, Sophie, Cosette, Vivienne and son, Howard), cycling, leisure reading, journal writing, church service, gardening, basketball, Boy Scouts of America (Eagle Scout) and ranching (inactive, my father sold the cows).