Kachelmeier received his B.B.A. from the
University of New Mexico and Ph.D. from the
University of Florida. He began teaching at the University of Texas at Austin in 1988. His research and teaching interests include
financial accounting, auditing, and experimental economics. Kachelmeier has held the C.T. Zlatkovich Centennial Professor Chair (2003 – 2009), the Randal B. McDonald Chair (2009 – 2022) and the Thomas O. Hooks chair (2022- present) at the same university. In 2022 he was named chair of the Accounting Department at the McCombs School of Business. He was editor of
The Accounting Review from 2008-2011. ==Selected publications==