Petro Lisowsky

Petro (Pete) Lisowsky is an Associate Professor of Accountancy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include U.S. and international corporate tax policy; tax reporting, disclosure, and organizational form; and financial reporting and audit choices of private companies. His research has been published in several leading accounting journals. He also teaches an undergraduate course on taxes in the College of Business. Outside the College, Lisowsky has been an academic consultant to the Internal Revenue Service since 2005, and worked at the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Defense Department, and Deloitte Tax LLP. He was a visiting associate professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management in 2015-16. He is currently an external affiliate with the Norwegian Center for Taxation (NoCeT) at the Norwegian School of Economics and an academic instructor of corporate taxation for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Lisowsky holds a BBA and Master of Accounting degrees from the University of Michigan, a PhD from Boston University, and is a licensed CPA. He is married and has three children.
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Federal Taxation II: Property Transactions of Business Owners and Shareholders (Coursera)

This course examines the U.S. federal tax system as it relates to property transactions of business owners and shareholders. Topics include cost recovery, such as depreciation, amortization, and depletion; calculation of realized versus recognized gains and losses; evaluation of the potential tax effects of nontaxable exchanges; and the combining, [...]

Federal Taxation I: Individuals, Employees, and Sole Proprietors (Coursera)

This course is the first course in a five-course US Federal Tax Specialization. It covers and focuses on the U.S. federal tax system as it relates to individuals, employees, and sole proprietors. Key concepts covered include gross income and items that are statutorily included or excluded in it, personal [...]