▲ Accounting research · EdTech · Policy analysis
Nicholas J.
Hallman
Tenured accounting professor at UT Austin and founder of Paideum. Audit research, teaching, and public tools for learning and policy.
I study how auditing and financial reporting work in practice, and I build tools that make hard material feel climbable.
Ten peer-reviewed papers on auditors, markets, and regulators. One EdTech company. A growing set of public tools for policy analysis and learning.
Research, teaching & Paideum.
Tenured associate professor at UT Austin. Founder of Paideum, an EdTech startup. Recovering auditor.
Papers & working drafts.
In the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and AJPT.
Paideum
An education company that turns source materials and expert guidance into editable, mastery-based courses.
Comment-letter analysis
PCAOB and SEC dockets turned into readable public summaries, stakeholder maps, and interactive comparisons across commenters.
Friedman.ai
A conversational model of Milton Friedman's economic thinking, built with the Salem Center.
What the Best AI Users Do Differently
With Z. Kowaleski, A. Puvvada and J. Schmidt.
Get in touch.
For research, Paideum, policy work, or anything else worth the climb.