Accounting PhD Faculty
Shannon Chen
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Areas of Expertise
- Corporate tax avoidance
- Tax-motivated income shifting
- Tax disclosure
Lin Cheng
Associate Professor of Accounting
Areas of Expertise
- Corporate disclosure
- Debt contracting
- Labor economics
- Auditing
- Textual analysis
Mei Cheng
Associate Professor of Accounting
Areas of Expertise
- Financial reporting and capital markets
- Market intermediaries
- Economic consequences
Preeti Choudhary
Associate Professor of Accounting
Areas of Expertise
- Capital markets financial accounting
- Financial reporting for taxes
- Recognition versus disclosure
- Financial reporting reliability and auditing
Jeremy Douthit
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Areas of Expertise
- Managerial decision making
- Management control systems
- Budgetary reporting
Katharine Drake
Associate Professor of Accounting
Areas of Expertise
- Relationship between GAAP and taxable income
- Firm life cycle
- Network connections
- Executive compensation and tax
Max Hewitt
Associate Professor of Accounting
Areas of Expertise
- Forecasting and valuation implications of financial statement information
- Investors’ reaction to disaggregated financial statement information
- Implications of financial statement presentation
Rick Mergenthaler
Lou Myers Professor of Accounting
Areas of Expertise
- Rules-based versus principles-based standards
- Qualitative characteristics of financial information
- Pro forma earnings disclosures
Paul Michas
Associate Professor of Accounting
Areas of Expertise
- Auditing
- International and cross-country accounting/auditing
- Emerging markets
Dan Russomanno
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Areas of Expertise
- Auditing and financial reporting
- Executive accountants
- Corporate governance
Jeffrey Schatzberg
Director of School of Accountancy
Lou Myers Professor of Accounting
Areas of Expertise
- Behavioral and managerial/cost accounting
- Auditing issues
Jayanthi Sunder
Deloitte Professor of Accounting
Finance Faculty Courtesy Appointment
Areas of Expertise
- Financial reporting and capital markets
- Debt contracting
- Compensation contracting
Shyam Sunder
McClelland Professor of Accounting
Areas of Expertise
- Financial accounting
- Financial analysts
- Financial disclosure/statements
- Financial reporting
Ben Van Landuyt
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Areas of Expertise
- Strategic interactions between auditors and managers
- The financial reporting and auditing of uncertain amounts
- Experimental economics
Jeff Jiewei Yu
Associate Professor of Accounting
Areas of Expertise
- Capital market research in accounting
- Debt contracting
- Information intermediaries
- Economic effects of financial reporting