Faculty Experts in Accounting

Wallman Family Professor of Accounting

• Accounting for entrepreneurs
• Key performance indicators
• Private firms
• Accounting fraud
• Corporate restructuring
• Financial accounting
• Financial reporting standards
• Interpreting financial statements
• Mergers and acquisitions
• SEC, IASB, and FASB disclosure regulation
• Valuation of assets and claims

Chookaszian Family Professor of Accounting and David G. Booth Faculty Fellow

• International accounting harmonization
• Disclosure regulation
• Foreign corruption regulation
• Corporate social responsibility reporting

Professor of Accounting

• Effect of taxes on business decisions including mergers, acquisitions. and divestitures
• Market effects of tax policies
• Tax and financial accounting treatment effects of various significant corporate transactions (e.g., mergers, employee stock options, etc.)
• Earnings and balance sheet management
• Various aspects of fraudulently reported earnings

Associate Professor of Accounting

• Divestitures
• Earnings
• Earnings management
• Financial accounting
• Financial disclosure and stock prices
• Interpreting financial statements
• Mergers and acquisitions
• SEC, IASB, and FASB disclosure regulation

Professor of Accounting and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar

• Accounting fraud
• Auditing
• Earnings
• Earnings management
• Financial accounting
• Financial reporting standards
• Interpreting financial statements
• Valuation of assets and claims
• Privately held firms

Professor of Accounting and FMC Faculty Scholar

• Role of accounting information in contracts
• Transparency and quality of financial reporting
• Voluntary disclosure
• Accounting regulation

Assistant Professor of Accounting; Asness Junior Faculty Fellow and IBM Corporation Faculty Scholar

• Disclosure regulation
• Regulatory enforcement
• Foreign corruption
• Emerging markets
• Corporate transparency
• Fair-value accounting
• Banking
• Fintech
• Public procurement

Charles T. Horngren Professor of Accounting

• Accounting standards
• Accounting fraud
• Earnings management
• Financial shenanigans
• Loan loss provisioning models
• Financial institutions and accounting standards
• Prudential regulation
• Auditing

Deputy Dean for Faculty and Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting

• Corporate financial reporting and disclosure practice (including earnings management, management earnings forecasts, earnings guidance, the effects of stockholder litigation on disclosure practices, and financial reporting practices in Japan)
• Corporate payout policy (stock repurchases, dividend policy, and the effects of employee stock options), and the interactions among these policies

Clinical Professor of Accounting

• Corporate valuation
• Capital markets
• Accounting information

Clinical Professor of Accounting and Entrepreneurship

• Accounting
• Entrepreneurship
• Taxes
• Venture Capital
• Technology

Charles T. Horngren Professor of Accounting Emeritus

• Business valuation of companies and parts of companies
• Mergers and acquisitions: appraisals and analyzing merger synergies
• Assessing solvency and ability to pay
• Antitrust issues, such as analysis of merger efficiencies and financial analyses of alleged anticompetitive behavior