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Biographies for Volume 24 , no. 2
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 24 (2005) 161–163 www.elsevier.com/locate/jaccpubpol
Biographies for Volume 24, No. 2 Ajay Adhikari is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Kogod School of Business at American University. His research interests include determinants of international accounting diversity, accounting infrastructure in emerging markets, and corporate financial reporting. As a Fulbright Scholar, he lectured and researched at Kuwait University and has been an EEC Fellow at the Danish Summer Research Institute. He has also served as the President of the International Accounting section of the American Accounting Association. He is on the editorial boards of several international accounting journals including Journal of International Accounting Research, Advances in International Accounting, and Journal of International Accounting, Auditing & Taxation. George J. Benston is the John H. Harland Professor of Finance, Economics, and Accounting at Goizueta Business School at Emory University, an Honorary Visiting Professor at City University (London), and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Dr. Benston earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, his MBA from New York University and his BA from Queens College (NYC). He also is a C.P.A. 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. He has published over 133 articles in refereed journals, and 17 books and monographs, the latest of which is Regulating Financial Markets: A Critique and Some Proposals. RichardFisher is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accountancy, Finance and Information Systems at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Richard is a Chartered Accountant (New Zealand), Certified Information Systems Auditor, and Certified Management Accountant. His research interests lie in the areas of auditing, accounting information systems, and financial accounting. He has recent publications in Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, and Managerial Auditing Journal. Fawzi Laswad is Professor and Head of the School of Accountancy at Massey University, New Zealand. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Sydney and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (New Zealand). He is currently a member of the Accounting Standards Review Board, the highest standard-setting body in New Zealand. His research interests are in financial reporting and international accounting. His research appeared in many journals including Accounting Horizons, The International Journal of Accounting, Accounting and Finance, Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, and Managerial Auditing Journal. Gerald J. Lobo is the Arthur Andersen Professor of Accounting and chairman of the Department of Accountancy & Taxation at the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business. His current research focuses on the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on earnings management and the value relevance of derivative disclosures. He has published more than thirty research papers in many leading journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Elsevier Inc. doi:10.1016/S0278-4254(05)00007-4
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Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Decision Sciences, and has presented papers at several national and international conferences. He was editor-in-chief of International Review of Accounting and is currently on the editorial boards of Review of Accounting and Finance, Advances in Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and Malaysian Accounting Review. Peter B. Oyelere is Head of Department of Accounting at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman and a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at Lincoln University, New Zealand. He has published more than 20 articles in academic and professional journals including the Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, European Accounting Review and the Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance. His research interests include international transfer pricing issues, internet financial reporting, corporate governance, and accounting education. Peter was Association of Commonwealth University Scholar at Glasgow University (UK, 1993/1994). He has won a number of awards through his research and publications, including the Coopers & Lybrand Peter Barr Research Award (ICANZ, 2002), Rintaro Aoki Outstanding Papers Award (IAAER, 2000), the Emerald Highly Commended Paper Award (2003) and the Anbar Citation of Excellence Award (1999). Peter is a co-author of an Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) funded research monograph on Credit unions in the UK. His latest co-authored book is on Financial Accounting: An international approach (2004). Joyce van der Laan Smith is a doctoral candidate in accounting at Virginia Commonwealth University. Ms. Smith’s research interests are in international accounting, business ethics, accounting education, and corporate financial reporting. At Virginia Commonwealth University Ms. Smith teaches managerial accounting. She is a member of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association, as well as, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Rasoul H. Tondkar is a Professor of Accounting at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Tondkar’s research interests are in areas of international accounting and accounting history. In the area of international accounting, he has written on the globalization of capital markets; harmonization of accounting standards; and international accounting education. : Currently, Dr. Tondkar serves on the editorial review Board of Advances in International Accounting and Journal of International Accounting, Auditing & Taxation. Larry Wall is a financial economist and policy advisor in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and adjunct professor of finance at Emory University. He joined the financial structure team of the Bank’s research department in 1982 and was promoted to his present position in 2001. He has published a number of papers in leading financial economics journals and he currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Financial Stability, and the Financial Review. He has served on the boards of the Financial Management Association, Eastern Finance Association and Southern Finance Association. A native of Grand Forks, North Dakota, Dr. Wall earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of North Dakota and a doctorate degree in business from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jian Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the School of Management at SUNY at Binghamton. He got his Ph.D. in Accounting from Syracuse University in August 2000. His current research focuses on the impact of corporate governance on banks’ earnings management, former Andersen clients’ auditor choice decisions and how the stock market reacts to Andersen’s indictment. He has published or has papers accepted for publication in the following journals: Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Asia-Pacific Journal of
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Accounting and Economics, Managerial Auditing Journal, Journal of Accounting and Business Research, and has presented papers at several national and international conferences. His research has been referenced in leading accounting journals such as The Accounting Review and Journal of Accounting & Economics.
Biographies for Volume 24, No. 2 Ajay Adhikari is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Kogod School of Business at American University. His research interests include determinants of international accounting diversity, accounting infrastructure in emerging markets, and corporate financial reporting. As a Fulbright Scholar, he lectured and researched at Kuwait University and has been an EEC Fellow at the Danish Summer Research Institute. He has also served as the President of the International Accounting section of the American Accounting Association. He is on the editorial boards of several international accounting journals including Journal of International Accounting Research, Advances in International Accounting, and Journal of International Accounting, Auditing & Taxation. George J. Benston is the John H. Harland Professor of Finance, Economics, and Accounting at Goizueta Business School at Emory University, an Honorary Visiting Professor at City University (London), and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Dr. Benston earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, his MBA from New York University and his BA from Queens College (NYC). He also is a C.P.A. 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. He has published over 133 articles in refereed journals, and 17 books and monographs, the latest of which is Regulating Financial Markets: A Critique and Some Proposals. RichardFisher is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accountancy, Finance and Information Systems at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Richard is a Chartered Accountant (New Zealand), Certified Information Systems Auditor, and Certified Management Accountant. His research interests lie in the areas of auditing, accounting information systems, and financial accounting. He has recent publications in Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, and Managerial Auditing Journal. Fawzi Laswad is Professor and Head of the School of Accountancy at Massey University, New Zealand. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Sydney and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (New Zealand). He is currently a member of the Accounting Standards Review Board, the highest standard-setting body in New Zealand. His research interests are in financial reporting and international accounting. His research appeared in many journals including Accounting Horizons, The International Journal of Accounting, Accounting and Finance, Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, and Managerial Auditing Journal. Gerald J. Lobo is the Arthur Andersen Professor of Accounting and chairman of the Department of Accountancy & Taxation at the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business. His current research focuses on the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on earnings management and the value relevance of derivative disclosures. He has published more than thirty research papers in many leading journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Elsevier Inc. doi:10.1016/S0278-4254(05)00007-4
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Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Decision Sciences, and has presented papers at several national and international conferences. He was editor-in-chief of International Review of Accounting and is currently on the editorial boards of Review of Accounting and Finance, Advances in Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and Malaysian Accounting Review. Peter B. Oyelere is Head of Department of Accounting at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman and a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at Lincoln University, New Zealand. He has published more than 20 articles in academic and professional journals including the Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, European Accounting Review and the Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance. His research interests include international transfer pricing issues, internet financial reporting, corporate governance, and accounting education. Peter was Association of Commonwealth University Scholar at Glasgow University (UK, 1993/1994). He has won a number of awards through his research and publications, including the Coopers & Lybrand Peter Barr Research Award (ICANZ, 2002), Rintaro Aoki Outstanding Papers Award (IAAER, 2000), the Emerald Highly Commended Paper Award (2003) and the Anbar Citation of Excellence Award (1999). Peter is a co-author of an Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) funded research monograph on Credit unions in the UK. His latest co-authored book is on Financial Accounting: An international approach (2004). Joyce van der Laan Smith is a doctoral candidate in accounting at Virginia Commonwealth University. Ms. Smith’s research interests are in international accounting, business ethics, accounting education, and corporate financial reporting. At Virginia Commonwealth University Ms. Smith teaches managerial accounting. She is a member of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association, as well as, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Rasoul H. Tondkar is a Professor of Accounting at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Tondkar’s research interests are in areas of international accounting and accounting history. In the area of international accounting, he has written on the globalization of capital markets; harmonization of accounting standards; and international accounting education. : Currently, Dr. Tondkar serves on the editorial review Board of Advances in International Accounting and Journal of International Accounting, Auditing & Taxation. Larry Wall is a financial economist and policy advisor in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and adjunct professor of finance at Emory University. He joined the financial structure team of the Bank’s research department in 1982 and was promoted to his present position in 2001. He has published a number of papers in leading financial economics journals and he currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Financial Stability, and the Financial Review. He has served on the boards of the Financial Management Association, Eastern Finance Association and Southern Finance Association. A native of Grand Forks, North Dakota, Dr. Wall earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of North Dakota and a doctorate degree in business from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jian Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the School of Management at SUNY at Binghamton. He got his Ph.D. in Accounting from Syracuse University in August 2000. His current research focuses on the impact of corporate governance on banks’ earnings management, former Andersen clients’ auditor choice decisions and how the stock market reacts to Andersen’s indictment. He has published or has papers accepted for publication in the following journals: Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Asia-Pacific Journal of
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Accounting and Economics, Managerial Auditing Journal, Journal of Accounting and Business Research, and has presented papers at several national and international conferences. His research has been referenced in leading accounting journals such as The Accounting Review and Journal of Accounting & Economics.