Previously, he was a tenured associate professor of accounting at the University of Washington, where he won numerous teaching and research awards. Professor Thornock has diverse research interests, including interest in taxation, tax havens, earnings information content and information technologies. His research has been published in several major accounting and finance journals and has been cited or featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Week, Bloomberg, Fox News, and NPR, and has been presented at the IRS, the SEC and a congressional subcommittee. Professor Thornock completed his doctoral studies at The University of North Carolina, where he was awarded the William Delozier Fellowship for Outstanding Doctoral Student. He earned his undergraduate and master's degrees in accounting at BYU.