Job Placement for Accounting Ph.D.'s
Job Placement for Accounting Ph.D.'s
Accounting: Academic Placements
Accounting doctoral graduates* are listed by year of graduation with thesis title, committee, initial placement, and current location.
CURLING, Michelle 2006
Thesis: Mandatory 10-K amendments
and strategic disclosure\h[electronic resource] : an examination of
firms under review by the securities and exchange commission
Committee: Barron (Chair), Dirsmith, McKeown, Jordan (Economics)
Initial Placement and Current: Not in Academia
MAO, Chunlin 2006
Thesis: Is the value relevance of earnings really decreasing over time
Committee: McKeown (Chair), Muller, Barron Upneja (HRRM)
Initial Placement and Current: University of Hong Kong
RAMALINGEGOWDA, Santhosh 2006
Thesis: Do institutional investors who hold large stakes over long
horizons have private information about future performance?
Committee: McKeown (Chair), Muller, Ke, Upneja (HRRM)
Initial Placement and Current: University of Georgia at Athens
STEFANESCU, Monica I. 2006
Thesis: The effect of SFAS 144 on managers’ income smoothing
behavior
Committee: Muller (Chair), Givoly, McKeown, Upneja (HRRM)
Initial Placement and Current: University of Arizona at Tucson
YODER, Timothy 2006
Thesis: The incremental cash flow predictive ability of accrual
models
Committee: Givoly (Chair), McKeown, Barron, Coulson (Economics)
Initial Placement and Current: Mississippi State University
YU, Yong 2006
Thesis: Overreaction or underreaction? A reexamination of the
accrual anomaly
Committee: Givoly (Chair), Barron, McKeown, Ke, Muller, Roberts (Economics)
Initial Placement and Current: The University of Texas at Austin
LANSFORD, BENJAMIN N. 2005
Thesis: Strategic bundling of good and bad news: the case of
voluntary patent disclosures and negative earnings surprises
Committee: Beatty and Smith, Co-chairs, McKeown, Muller, Muscarella, Lowry, and Coulson (Economics)
Initial Placement and Current: Northwestern University
ALTAMURO, JENNIFER L. 2005
Thesis: The economic, financial accounting and governance
determinants of synthetic lease financing
Committee: Beatty (Chair), Fischer, McKeown, Muller, Roberts (Economics)
Initial Placement: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Current: Ohio State University
JAGOLINZER, ALAN D. 2004
Thesis: An empirical analysis of insider trade within Rule 10b5-1
Committee: Huddart (Chair), Beatty, Muller, Roberts (Economics)
Initial Placement and Current: Stanford University
LIANG, LIHONG 2002
Thesis: Post-earnings announcement drift and market participants' information processing biases
Committee: McKeown (Chair), Barron, Fischer, Luo (Statistics)
Initial Placement and Current: George Washington University
RIEDL, EDWARD J. 2002
Thesis: An examination of long-lived asset impairments
Committee: Beatty (Chair), McKeown, Muller, Jordan (Economics)
Initial Placement and Current: Harvard University
VENKATARAMAN, RAMGOPAL 2001
Thesis: The impact of SFAS 131 on financial analysts' information envrionment
Committee: McKeown (Chair), Barron, Beatty, Fischer, Upneja (HR&RM)
Initial Placement and Current: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
BETTINGHAUS, BRUCE A. 2000
Thesis: Earnings management by merger targets: discretion over the loan loss provision in commercial banks
Committee: Beatty (Chair), McKeown, Dirsmith, Ramesh, Roberts (Economics)
Initial Placement: The University of Missouri - Columbia
Current: Michigan State University
KARAMANOU, IRENE 2000
Thesis: Is analyst optimism intentional? Additional evidence on the
existence of reporting, selection and cognitive bias in analyst
earnings forecasts
Committee: McKeown (Chair), Beatty, Hatheway, Coulson (Economics)
Initial Placement and Current: University of Cyprus
STOCKEN, MARY BETH 2000
Thesis Title:
Auditor conservatism and opinion shopping: influence of client
switching expectations on audit opinion decisions
Committee: Mutchler (Chair),McKeown, Dirsmith, Babu (Statistics), Roberts (Economics)
Initial Placement: The University of Pennsylvania, Wharton
Currently not in Academia
WEBER, JOSEPH P. 2000
Thesis: Shareholder wealth effects of pooling-of-interests accounting:
evidence from the SEC's restriction on share repurchases following
pooling transaction
Committee: Mutchler (Chair), Beatty, McKeown, Ramesh, Baye
Initial Placement and Current: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
IRANI, AFSHAD 1998
Thesis: The effect of proprietary information, legal liability, and external financing on management forecast bias
Committee: McKeown (Chair), Beatty, Muscarella, Shane, Roberts (Economics)
Initial Placement and Current: University of New Hampshire
LIVINGSTONE, JANE R. 1998
Thesis: Executive compensation contracting and responses to increased tax costs
Committee: Crum (Chair), McKeown, Harris, Fellingham, Gresik (Economics)
Initial Placement: Louisiana State University
Current: University of North Carolina at Greensboro
RAEDY, JANA S. 1998
Thesis: A reconciliation of stock market anomalies
Committee: McKeown (Chair), Beatty, Sheehan, Shane, Crocker (Economics)
Initial Placement and Current: The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
RAEDY, KEVIN M. 1998
Thesis: Auditors' litigation risk: the effect of industry
specialization on auditor litigation and audit-firm management of the
risk-return relationship
Committee: Mutchler (Chair), McKeown, Dirsmith, Crocker (Economics)
Initial Placement: The University of North Carolina - Greensboro
Current: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
RUSSELL, JOHN D. 1998
Thesis: Accounts, accounting, and new workplace practices: evidence from a declining industry
Committee: Dirsmith (Chair), McKeown, Glyde (Labor Relations), Leicht (Sociology)
Initial Placement: University of Southhampton, England
Current: University of Saskatchewan
STOCKEN, PHILLIP C. 1998
Thesis: Essays in financial reporting
Committee: McKeown (Chair), Crum, Chatherjee, Fellingham, Krishna, Econ
Initial Placement: The University of Pennsylvania, Wharton
Current: Darthmouth College
McELROY, BARBARA J. 1997
Thesis: Managed care organizations and employer health benefits:
interpenetration of form and substance in cost control systems
Committee: Dirsmith (Chair), McKeown, Leicht (Sociology), Stuart (Health Policy), Fennell (Sociology)
Initial Placement: Berry College
Current: Susquehanna University
*1967 - 2006 Accounting Doctoral Degree Graduates total 128 from The Pennsylvania State University.
