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Volume 31, No. 4 – Bios
J. Account. Public Policy 31 (2012) 448–449
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J. Account. Public Policy journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jaccpubpol
Biographies
Volume 31, No. 4 – Bios Pervaiz Alam is a professor of accounting at the College of Business Administration, Kent State University. His research interest is in Auditing and Financial Accounting. Some of his published papers have appeared in Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and Decision Sciences. Michael A. Firth is a chair professor of finance at Lingnan University. Previously he held academic appointments in Asia, Europe, New Zealand, and North America, and he has worked as an accountant and investment analyst in Britain. His research interests span current issues in accounting and finance. Lawrence A. Gordon is the Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Managerial Accounting and Information Assurance at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, and an Affiliate Professor in the University of Maryland’s Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. His Ph.D. is in Managerial Economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is the author of more than 90 articles, published in such journals as The Accounting Review; ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, Accounting, Organizations and Society; Journal of Computer Security; and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He is the author of several books, including MANAGING CYBERSECURITY: A Cost-Benefit Analysis and MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING: Concepts and Empirical Evidence, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. In 2007, he provided Congressional testimony on cybersecurity economics before a Subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security. He is a frequent speaker at universities and professional meetings, has been a consultant to many major private and public sector organizations, and his former Ph.D. students are distinguished faculty at top universities around the world. James E. Hunton (CPA, MBA, Ph.D.) is the Darald and Juliet Libby endowed research chair and Professor of Accountancy at Bentley University. He has published over 130 articles, many in top-tier journals, in accounting, finance, management, information systems and psychology. He has also coauthored three text books, and delivered countless presentations and speeches across the globe. He has been active in the American Accounting Association (AAA), where he has served as vice president of the AAA, president of the Information Systems section of the AAA, and chair of the AAA’s doctoral symposium. He was founding editor of Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, an editor for The Accounting Review, and an associate editor for Decision Sciences. His expertise is sought in many areas, such as designing and analyzing experiments, improving corporate governance, understanding the psychology of financial markets, making ethical choices, and dealing with moral conflicts of interest. Martin P. Loeb is a professor of accounting and information assurance and a Deloitte & Touche Faculty Fellow at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, and an affiliate professor in the University of Maryland’s Institute of Advanced Computer Studies. He earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University, and published papers in The Accounting Review, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, The American Economic Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Computer Security, Journal of Law and Economics, Management Science, and MIS Quarterly. He served on editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Journal of Business
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Finance & Accounting, and Review of Accounting Studies. He is currently an editor of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. His papers have over 3500 Google Scholar citations. Karin A. Petruska is an Assistant Professor of Accounting in the Lariccia School of Accounting and Finance at the Williamson College of Business at Youngstown State University. She received her Ph.D. in accounting from Kent State University in 2008 and is an active CPA. Her current research focuses on accounting conservatism, analysts’ forecasts, earnings management, and international accounting. Jacob M. Rose is a professor of accounting at the University of New Hampshire, and he received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. His research focuses on accounting, auditing, and governance issues using experimental research methods. His research has been widely published in journals such as The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Management Studies, and Accounting Horizons. He serves on the editorial boards of several American Accounting Association journals, and he received the Notable Contribution to the Information Systems Literature Award. He has been recognized as the top researcher in the College of Business at three different universities, and he is an author of one of the best-selling accounting information systems textbooks. Oliver M. Rui is a professor of finance and accounting at the China Europe International Business School. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Financial Risk Manager (FRM). Prior to joining CEIBS, he taught at the University of Houston, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published in the following journals: Journal of Law and Economic, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Financial Review, Journal of Financial Research, European Financial Management, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Journal of Business Research, and Emerging Markets Review. Jack Stecher is Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, and was previously Assistant Professor at Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH). His main research interests are in financial reporting under ambiguity and under institutional differences. In addition to his work in Accounting, he has published in Decision Theory, Economics, Social Choice Theory, and Mathematical Logic/Theoretical Computer Science. Jeroen Suijs is professor of accounting at Tilburg University. Prior to this appointment, he was professor of accounting at Rotterdam School of Management. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Tilburg University. His research interests include disclosure incentives and the role of financial information in capital markets. He has published his work in international journals such as Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Theory and European Journal of Operational Research. Xi Wu is a professor of accounting at the School of Accountancy of the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), China. He received his Ph.D. from the CUFE. Prior to joining CUFE in July 2006, he served at the Professional Standards Department of the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CICPA) since September 2001, and as a technical advisor of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) during 2002 and 2003. His research interests focus on auditing, financial reporting, and accounting regulation. In addition to publishing in Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, his work has appeared in Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, The International Journal of Accounting, and several top Chinese accounting journals. Wenjie Zhu is an assistant professor of accounting at the University of Hong Kong. She earned her Ph.D. degree in accounting from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2012. Her research interests include capital investments, cognitive dissonance and decision making in accounting, corporate governance, and information content in accounting disclosure.
Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect
J. Account. Public Policy journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jaccpubpol
Biographies
Volume 31, No. 4 – Bios Pervaiz Alam is a professor of accounting at the College of Business Administration, Kent State University. His research interest is in Auditing and Financial Accounting. Some of his published papers have appeared in Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and Decision Sciences. Michael A. Firth is a chair professor of finance at Lingnan University. Previously he held academic appointments in Asia, Europe, New Zealand, and North America, and he has worked as an accountant and investment analyst in Britain. His research interests span current issues in accounting and finance. Lawrence A. Gordon is the Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Managerial Accounting and Information Assurance at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, and an Affiliate Professor in the University of Maryland’s Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. His Ph.D. is in Managerial Economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is the author of more than 90 articles, published in such journals as The Accounting Review; ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, Accounting, Organizations and Society; Journal of Computer Security; and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He is the author of several books, including MANAGING CYBERSECURITY: A Cost-Benefit Analysis and MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING: Concepts and Empirical Evidence, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. In 2007, he provided Congressional testimony on cybersecurity economics before a Subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security. He is a frequent speaker at universities and professional meetings, has been a consultant to many major private and public sector organizations, and his former Ph.D. students are distinguished faculty at top universities around the world. James E. Hunton (CPA, MBA, Ph.D.) is the Darald and Juliet Libby endowed research chair and Professor of Accountancy at Bentley University. He has published over 130 articles, many in top-tier journals, in accounting, finance, management, information systems and psychology. He has also coauthored three text books, and delivered countless presentations and speeches across the globe. He has been active in the American Accounting Association (AAA), where he has served as vice president of the AAA, president of the Information Systems section of the AAA, and chair of the AAA’s doctoral symposium. He was founding editor of Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, an editor for The Accounting Review, and an associate editor for Decision Sciences. His expertise is sought in many areas, such as designing and analyzing experiments, improving corporate governance, understanding the psychology of financial markets, making ethical choices, and dealing with moral conflicts of interest. Martin P. Loeb is a professor of accounting and information assurance and a Deloitte & Touche Faculty Fellow at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, and an affiliate professor in the University of Maryland’s Institute of Advanced Computer Studies. He earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University, and published papers in The Accounting Review, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, The American Economic Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Computer Security, Journal of Law and Economics, Management Science, and MIS Quarterly. He served on editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Journal of Business
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2012.07.001
Biographies / J. Account. Public Policy 31 (2012) 448–449
449
Finance & Accounting, and Review of Accounting Studies. He is currently an editor of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. His papers have over 3500 Google Scholar citations. Karin A. Petruska is an Assistant Professor of Accounting in the Lariccia School of Accounting and Finance at the Williamson College of Business at Youngstown State University. She received her Ph.D. in accounting from Kent State University in 2008 and is an active CPA. Her current research focuses on accounting conservatism, analysts’ forecasts, earnings management, and international accounting. Jacob M. Rose is a professor of accounting at the University of New Hampshire, and he received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. His research focuses on accounting, auditing, and governance issues using experimental research methods. His research has been widely published in journals such as The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Management Studies, and Accounting Horizons. He serves on the editorial boards of several American Accounting Association journals, and he received the Notable Contribution to the Information Systems Literature Award. He has been recognized as the top researcher in the College of Business at three different universities, and he is an author of one of the best-selling accounting information systems textbooks. Oliver M. Rui is a professor of finance and accounting at the China Europe International Business School. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Financial Risk Manager (FRM). Prior to joining CEIBS, he taught at the University of Houston, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published in the following journals: Journal of Law and Economic, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Financial Review, Journal of Financial Research, European Financial Management, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Journal of Business Research, and Emerging Markets Review. Jack Stecher is Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, and was previously Assistant Professor at Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH). His main research interests are in financial reporting under ambiguity and under institutional differences. In addition to his work in Accounting, he has published in Decision Theory, Economics, Social Choice Theory, and Mathematical Logic/Theoretical Computer Science. Jeroen Suijs is professor of accounting at Tilburg University. Prior to this appointment, he was professor of accounting at Rotterdam School of Management. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Tilburg University. His research interests include disclosure incentives and the role of financial information in capital markets. He has published his work in international journals such as Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Theory and European Journal of Operational Research. Xi Wu is a professor of accounting at the School of Accountancy of the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), China. He received his Ph.D. from the CUFE. Prior to joining CUFE in July 2006, he served at the Professional Standards Department of the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CICPA) since September 2001, and as a technical advisor of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) during 2002 and 2003. His research interests focus on auditing, financial reporting, and accounting regulation. In addition to publishing in Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, his work has appeared in Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, The International Journal of Accounting, and several top Chinese accounting journals. Wenjie Zhu is an assistant professor of accounting at the University of Hong Kong. She earned her Ph.D. degree in accounting from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2012. Her research interests include capital investments, cognitive dissonance and decision making in accounting, corporate governance, and information content in accounting disclosure.