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Biographies for Volume 25, No. 4
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Biographies for Volume 25, No. 4 George J. Benston is the John H. Harland Professor of Finance, Accounting, and Economics at Goizueta Business School and Professor of Economics at Emory University, and an Honorary Visiting Professor at City University (London). Dr. Benston earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, his MBA from New York University, and his B.A. from Queens College (NYC). He is also a CPA. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory, Professor Benston taught at the University of Rochester and the University of Chicago, and was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Oxford University (UK). He has published over 136 articles in refereed journals and 18 books and monographs, the latest of which is Worldwide Financial Reporting: The Development and Future of Accounting Standards, with Michael Bromwich, Robert Litan and Alfred Wagonhofer (Oxford University Press), 2006. Al Bhimani is Reader in Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics. He holds a B.Sc. from King’s College London, an MBA from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from LSE. He is also a Certified Management Accountant (Canada). He has co-authored a number of books including Management Accounting: Evolution not Revolution (CIMA, 1989), Management Accounting: Pathways to Progress (CIMA, 1994) Management and Cost Accounting (Prentice Hall, 2005) and Strategic Finance and Cost Management (Management Press, 2005). Al has also edited Management Accounting: European Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 1996), Management Accounting in the Digital Economy (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting (Oxford University Press, 2006). He has written an extensive range of articles in scholarly publications and serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals. He has undertaken management accounting related fieldwork in a variety of global enterprises and has presented his research to corporate executives and academic audiences in Europe, Asia and North America. Lawrence D. Brown is the J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of Accountancy at Georgia State University. He has an MBA from University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from University of Rochester. His principal research interests are in capital markets research, bibliometrics, corporate governance, and forecasting. He has over 80 publications; he has made over 160 presentations at universities and professional conferences; and his work is highly cited by academics and the financial press. He is a past editor of The Accounting Review, a member of the executive committee of the annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, and recipient of the 2006 American Accounting Association Outstanding Educator Award. He has consulted for numerous organizations, including The DAIS Group, Grantham, Mayo Van Otterloo & Co., I/B/E/S International Inc., Institutional Shareholder Services, Renaissance Technologies Corp., The Volume Investor, and Zacks Investment Research. doi:10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2006.05.009
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Marcus L. Caylor is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in Accounting from Georgia State University in 2006. He also has a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master’s degree in Economics, both from Georgia Tech. His research interests focus on financial reporting issues with a special emphasis in the area of earnings management. He also does research in the areas of corporate governance and analyst forecasts. Charles Cullinan is a Professor of Accounting at Bryant University. His current research focuses on the effects of legislation and corporate governance on various financial reporting issues. He has previously published papers in Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Research on Accounting Regulation, and a wide variety of other journals. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1991. Joel S. Demski is the Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar in Accounting at the University of Florida. His articles have appeared in such journals as the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting & Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Industrial Engineering, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Economic Theory, Management Accounting, Economic Letters, Rand Journal of Economics, Management Science, and the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. He is also the author or co-author of several books, including Managerial Uses of Accounting Information (Kluwer, 1994) and Accounting Theory: An Information Content Perspective (McGraw-Hill, 2002). Professor Demski was awarded the AAA Outstanding Educator Award in 1986 and the AAA Seminal Contribution Award (along with Jerry Feltham) in 1994, and is also the recipient of the AICPA Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Accounting Literature, the AAA Competitive Manuscript Award, and the Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award. He was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2000. Hui Du is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas – Pan American. She earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey in 2002. Her current research interests include corporate governance and the effects of legislation on financial reporting. She also does research in the area of accounting information systems. Stephen A. FitzGerald is an Associate Professor of Physics at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 1994. His research interests center on the use of infrared spectroscopy to study quantum-confined systems. He has published over 20 papers in various journals, such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, and Journal of the American Chemical Society. Yuji Ijiri is Robert M. Trueblood University Professor of Accounting and Economics, at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. He received his doctorate from CMU in 1963 and, after having joined the faculty of Stanford Business School for four years, returned to CMU in 1967 where he has been on its faculty since then. He has also been on the editorial board of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy since its inception in 1981. In 1982–1983, he served as President of the American Accounting Association. In 1989, he was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame at Ohio State University. He has published twenty-five books and has two hundred journal publications in the fields of accounting, economics, and mathematics. Yumi Ijiri is an Associate Professor of Physics at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. She received her doctorate in physics in 1996 from Cornell University. Her research is focused on understanding the magnetic properties of unusual materials, particularly on the nanometer length
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scale. She has published over 20 articles in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters, and Physical Review B. Haijin Lin is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Fisher School of Accounting, Warrington College of Business, and the University of Florida since the fall 2004. She received her doctorate from Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University in May 2004 with the dissertation titled Intertemporal Analyses of Conservatism: From the Perspectives of Standard Setters, Managers and Auditors. In addition to the article in the current Journal of Accounting and Public Policy issue, she has two joint papers accepted at the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management’s Special Issue on Accounting Measurement, Incentives, and Technology Innovation, ‘‘Moral Hazard Depicted in Markov Processes with Strategy Options’’ and ‘‘Symmetric Accounting for ‘Goods’ and ‘Bads’ in a Double-Entry Framework: Integrating Conventional and Environmental Accounting.’’ Mthuli Ncube is Professor of Finance and Director for Executive Education at Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He teaches Finance and Derivatives courses at the school. He has extensive experience as an Investment Banker and Fund Manager and was Head of Asset Allocation Strategy at Investec Asset Management. Previously, Professor Ncube was a Lecturer in Finance at the London School of Economics, UK. He has published widely in the area of finance and economics, some of which have won awards. His papers have appeared in international journals such as the Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Mathematical Finance, Applied Financial Economics and Internal Journal of Auditing, among others. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Cambridge University, UK, on ‘‘Pricing Options under Stochastic Volatility.’’ His current research areas include both micro and macro issues, namely: finance and investments; asset pricing; outsourcing; subcontracting; financial econometrics; housing finance; organizational theory for corporates; organizational theory for the public sector, service delivery and economic performance; entrepreneurship and economic growth; exchange rates and economic performance; monetary policy issues; financial sector reforms, especially in Africa. Joshua Ronen is Professor of Accounting at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He has published numerous books, monographs and articles in journals such as Accounting Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Finance. The Journal of Banking and Finance, The Journal of Business, Management Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Performance. Professor Ronen serves or has served on the boards of The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, The British Accounting Review and The Journal of International Financial Analysis. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, and as a special editor of Management Science. Gail B. Wright is a Professor of Accounting at Bryant University. Her current research focuses on the effects of legislation and corporate governance on various financial reporting issues. She has previously published papers in Behavioral Research in Accounting, Internal Auditing, Human Relations, Advances in Accounting, and a wide variety of other journals. She earned her DBA from George Washington University in 1985. Varda (Lewisntein) Yaari is an Associate Professor at Morgan State University. Her research interests cover game theory for accounting and finance, in general, and earnings management is particular. She has published in accounting, economics, and finance. She is currently authoring a book on earnings management with Joshua Ronen for the scholarship in
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accounting series of Springer. She has been working with Joseph Tzur and Joshua Ronen since earning her Ph.D. from New York University in 1989. Joseph Tzur is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at The S. Daniel Abraham School of Business Administration. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, and has published in accounting and economics journals.
Biographies for Volume 25, No. 4 George J. Benston is the John H. Harland Professor of Finance, Accounting, and Economics at Goizueta Business School and Professor of Economics at Emory University, and an Honorary Visiting Professor at City University (London). Dr. Benston earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, his MBA from New York University, and his B.A. from Queens College (NYC). He is also a CPA. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory, Professor Benston taught at the University of Rochester and the University of Chicago, and was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Oxford University (UK). He has published over 136 articles in refereed journals and 18 books and monographs, the latest of which is Worldwide Financial Reporting: The Development and Future of Accounting Standards, with Michael Bromwich, Robert Litan and Alfred Wagonhofer (Oxford University Press), 2006. Al Bhimani is Reader in Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics. He holds a B.Sc. from King’s College London, an MBA from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from LSE. He is also a Certified Management Accountant (Canada). He has co-authored a number of books including Management Accounting: Evolution not Revolution (CIMA, 1989), Management Accounting: Pathways to Progress (CIMA, 1994) Management and Cost Accounting (Prentice Hall, 2005) and Strategic Finance and Cost Management (Management Press, 2005). Al has also edited Management Accounting: European Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 1996), Management Accounting in the Digital Economy (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting (Oxford University Press, 2006). He has written an extensive range of articles in scholarly publications and serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals. He has undertaken management accounting related fieldwork in a variety of global enterprises and has presented his research to corporate executives and academic audiences in Europe, Asia and North America. Lawrence D. Brown is the J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of Accountancy at Georgia State University. He has an MBA from University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from University of Rochester. His principal research interests are in capital markets research, bibliometrics, corporate governance, and forecasting. He has over 80 publications; he has made over 160 presentations at universities and professional conferences; and his work is highly cited by academics and the financial press. He is a past editor of The Accounting Review, a member of the executive committee of the annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, and recipient of the 2006 American Accounting Association Outstanding Educator Award. He has consulted for numerous organizations, including The DAIS Group, Grantham, Mayo Van Otterloo & Co., I/B/E/S International Inc., Institutional Shareholder Services, Renaissance Technologies Corp., The Volume Investor, and Zacks Investment Research. doi:10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2006.05.009
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Marcus L. Caylor is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in Accounting from Georgia State University in 2006. He also has a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master’s degree in Economics, both from Georgia Tech. His research interests focus on financial reporting issues with a special emphasis in the area of earnings management. He also does research in the areas of corporate governance and analyst forecasts. Charles Cullinan is a Professor of Accounting at Bryant University. His current research focuses on the effects of legislation and corporate governance on various financial reporting issues. He has previously published papers in Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Research on Accounting Regulation, and a wide variety of other journals. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1991. Joel S. Demski is the Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar in Accounting at the University of Florida. His articles have appeared in such journals as the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting & Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Industrial Engineering, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Economic Theory, Management Accounting, Economic Letters, Rand Journal of Economics, Management Science, and the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. He is also the author or co-author of several books, including Managerial Uses of Accounting Information (Kluwer, 1994) and Accounting Theory: An Information Content Perspective (McGraw-Hill, 2002). Professor Demski was awarded the AAA Outstanding Educator Award in 1986 and the AAA Seminal Contribution Award (along with Jerry Feltham) in 1994, and is also the recipient of the AICPA Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Accounting Literature, the AAA Competitive Manuscript Award, and the Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award. He was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2000. Hui Du is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas – Pan American. She earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey in 2002. Her current research interests include corporate governance and the effects of legislation on financial reporting. She also does research in the area of accounting information systems. Stephen A. FitzGerald is an Associate Professor of Physics at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 1994. His research interests center on the use of infrared spectroscopy to study quantum-confined systems. He has published over 20 papers in various journals, such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, and Journal of the American Chemical Society. Yuji Ijiri is Robert M. Trueblood University Professor of Accounting and Economics, at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. He received his doctorate from CMU in 1963 and, after having joined the faculty of Stanford Business School for four years, returned to CMU in 1967 where he has been on its faculty since then. He has also been on the editorial board of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy since its inception in 1981. In 1982–1983, he served as President of the American Accounting Association. In 1989, he was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame at Ohio State University. He has published twenty-five books and has two hundred journal publications in the fields of accounting, economics, and mathematics. Yumi Ijiri is an Associate Professor of Physics at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. She received her doctorate in physics in 1996 from Cornell University. Her research is focused on understanding the magnetic properties of unusual materials, particularly on the nanometer length
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scale. She has published over 20 articles in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters, and Physical Review B. Haijin Lin is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Fisher School of Accounting, Warrington College of Business, and the University of Florida since the fall 2004. She received her doctorate from Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University in May 2004 with the dissertation titled Intertemporal Analyses of Conservatism: From the Perspectives of Standard Setters, Managers and Auditors. In addition to the article in the current Journal of Accounting and Public Policy issue, she has two joint papers accepted at the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management’s Special Issue on Accounting Measurement, Incentives, and Technology Innovation, ‘‘Moral Hazard Depicted in Markov Processes with Strategy Options’’ and ‘‘Symmetric Accounting for ‘Goods’ and ‘Bads’ in a Double-Entry Framework: Integrating Conventional and Environmental Accounting.’’ Mthuli Ncube is Professor of Finance and Director for Executive Education at Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He teaches Finance and Derivatives courses at the school. He has extensive experience as an Investment Banker and Fund Manager and was Head of Asset Allocation Strategy at Investec Asset Management. Previously, Professor Ncube was a Lecturer in Finance at the London School of Economics, UK. He has published widely in the area of finance and economics, some of which have won awards. His papers have appeared in international journals such as the Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Mathematical Finance, Applied Financial Economics and Internal Journal of Auditing, among others. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Cambridge University, UK, on ‘‘Pricing Options under Stochastic Volatility.’’ His current research areas include both micro and macro issues, namely: finance and investments; asset pricing; outsourcing; subcontracting; financial econometrics; housing finance; organizational theory for corporates; organizational theory for the public sector, service delivery and economic performance; entrepreneurship and economic growth; exchange rates and economic performance; monetary policy issues; financial sector reforms, especially in Africa. Joshua Ronen is Professor of Accounting at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He has published numerous books, monographs and articles in journals such as Accounting Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Finance. The Journal of Banking and Finance, The Journal of Business, Management Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Performance. Professor Ronen serves or has served on the boards of The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, The British Accounting Review and The Journal of International Financial Analysis. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, and as a special editor of Management Science. Gail B. Wright is a Professor of Accounting at Bryant University. Her current research focuses on the effects of legislation and corporate governance on various financial reporting issues. She has previously published papers in Behavioral Research in Accounting, Internal Auditing, Human Relations, Advances in Accounting, and a wide variety of other journals. She earned her DBA from George Washington University in 1985. Varda (Lewisntein) Yaari is an Associate Professor at Morgan State University. Her research interests cover game theory for accounting and finance, in general, and earnings management is particular. She has published in accounting, economics, and finance. She is currently authoring a book on earnings management with Joshua Ronen for the scholarship in
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accounting series of Springer. She has been working with Joseph Tzur and Joshua Ronen since earning her Ph.D. from New York University in 1989. Joseph Tzur is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at The S. Daniel Abraham School of Business Administration. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, and has published in accounting and economics journals.