Jeremy Douthit

Jeremy Douthit joined the Eller College of Management in 2014 after earning his PhD in Accounting from Florida State University. His research focuses on management accounting, behavioral economics, social norms, control systems, budgeting, and internal effects of firm CSR.

Courses

• ACCT 310, Cost and Managerial Accounting

Publications

• Douthit, J., Z. Mao., and P. Martin. 2024. Tend to One’s Own House: The Effect of Firm CSR on Employee Effort. Contemporary Accounting Research
• Douthit, J., J. Garrett, and D. Way. 2024. Does Prior Experience Reduce the Ability of Cooperation-Inducing Controls to Develop Trust between Employees? Journal of Management Accounting Research
• Douthit, J., S. Kachelmeier, and B. Van Landuyt. 2024. Does Auditor Assurance of Client Prosocial Activities Affect Subsequent Reporter-Auditor Negotiations? An Experimental Assessment. Accounting, Organizations and Society 112
• Douthit, J., M. Majerczyk, and L. McLuckie Thain. 2024. Updated Theory and New Evidence on the Effect of Information System Precision on Managerial Reporting. Journal of Management Accounting Research 36 (1): 73-94.
• Douthit, J., J. Liu, S. Schwartz, and R. Young. 2024. An Experimental Study of Endogenous Discretionary Controls on Employee Effort. European Accounting Review 33 (1): 77-103.
• Douthit, J., S. Schwartz, D. Stevens, and R. Young. 2022. The Effect of Endogenous Discretionary Control Choice on Budgetary Slack: An Experimental Examination. Journal of Management Accounting Research 34 (3): 99-118.
• Douthit, J., P. Martin, and M. McAllister. 2022. Charitable Contribution Matching and Effort-Elicitation. The Accounting Review 97 (1): 213-232. 
• Douthit, J, M. Millar, and R. White. 2021. Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, and Regulatory Enforcement: Close Experience with Potential Sanctions and Fraud Deterrence. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 166: 137-148
• Douthit, J. and M. Majerczyk. 2019. Subordinate Perceptions of the Superior and Agency Costs: Theory and Evidence. Accounting, Organizations and Society.
• Blay, A., J. Douthit, and B. Fulmer. 2019. Why Don’t People Lie? Negative Affect Intensity and Preferences for Honesty in Budgetary Reporting. Management Accounting Research 42: 56-65.
• Douthit, J. and D. Stevens. 2015. The Robustness of Honesty Effects on Budget Proposals when the Superior has Rejection Authority. The Accounting Review 90 (2): 467-493.
• Douthit, J., L. Kearney, and D. Stevens. 2012. Can Agent Cheap Talk Mitigate Agency Problems in the Presence of a Noisy Performance Measure? An Experimental Test in a Single- and Multi-Period Setting. Journal of Management Accounting Research 24 (1): 135 - 158.

Selected Working Papers

• “The Effect of RPI on Employee’s Ex Ante Compensation Expectations and Ex Post Compensation Requests” (with Michael Majerczyk, Bei Shi, and Tyler Thomas)
• "Reducing Strategic Uncertainty in Teams by Combining Team and Individual Relative Performance Evaluations” (with Max Hewitt and Ashley Sauciuc).
• “Budgetary Pressure and Performance in Unstable Production Environments” (with Ashley Sauciuc)