Faculty

Education

PhD Business Administration, University of Southern California

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Academic Areas

Accounting and Information Systems

Interests

• Financial Accounting
• Restatements of Financial Statements
• The Market for Auditing and Consulting Services

Selected Publications

Auditor Independence, Non-Audit Services, and Restatements: Was the Government Right. Journal of Accounting Research, Volume 42, No. 3 (June 2004): 561-588. (with William R. Kinney, Jr. and Zoe-Vonna Palmrose)

The Accounting Causes and Legal Consequences of Non-GAAP Reporting: Evidence from Restatements. Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 21, Issue 1 (Spring 2004): 139-180. (with Zoe-Vonna Palmrose)

Determinants of Market Reactions to Restatement Announcements. Journal of Accounting & Economics, Volume 37, Issue 1 (February 2004): 59-89. (with Zoe-Vonna Palmrose and Vernon R. Richardson)

Lobbying ROI: An Empirical Analysis Under the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004.
University of Virginia Journal of Law and Politics, (forthcoming Spring 2010).
(with Raquel Alexander and Stephen Mazza.)

How Do Misstatements Begin? Evidence of Biased Financial Reporting Preceding Misstatements. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting (forthcoming 2010) with Michael Ettredge, Kevin Smith and Lili Sun.

The Changing Nature and Consequences of Public Company Financial Restatements: 1997-2006 (April 2008). A study commissioned and published by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Paper