Job Placement for Accounting Ph.D.'s

Accounting: Academic Placements

Accounting Doctoral Degree Graduates total 132 from 1967 to 2008.  The most recent Accounting doctoral graduates are listed below by year of graduation with thesis title, committee, initial placement, and current location. 

HENNES, Karen 2008

Thesis: Data Overload and Investor Trading
Committee: Fischer and Muller (Co-Chairs); Leone, Upneja (HRRM)
Initial Placement and Current:Indiana University

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: Penn State University

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

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

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

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

*1967 - 2008 Accounting Doctoral Degree Graduates total 132 from The Pennsylvania State University.

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