Accounting

Research and Awards

Papers

Oliver Binz – Accounting

Gregory Burke – Accounting

Matt Kubic – Accounting

Awards

  • FARS Midyear Meeting Outstanding Reviewer Award 2022 – Oliver Binz
  • EAR Conference Best Discussant Award 2021 – Oliver Binz
  • The Fuqua School of Business’ Best Dissertation Award 2019-2020 – Matt Kubic
  • ISEF Foundation International Fellow 2019 – Shiran Vaknin-Froymovich
  • ISEF Foundation International Fellow 2018 – Shiran Vaknin-Froymovich
  • Deloitte Fellowship – 2018 – Matt Kubic
  • Deloitte Fellowship – 2017 – Robert Hills
  • Best Student Paper Award – Southeast AAA Meetings 2015 – Alex Young
  • Deloitte Fellowship – 2015 – Mani Sethuraman
  • AAA Representative to the 2013 AFAANZ Accounting Symposium – Dirk Black
  • 2012/13 Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics – Thomas Steffen
  • Deloitte Fellowship – 2013 – Thomas Steffen
  • Best 2nd Year Student Paper Award – Southeast AAA Meetings 2012 – Thomas Steffen
  • Best 3rd Year Student Paper Award – Southeast AAA Meetings 2012 – Dirk Black
  • Deloitte Fellowship – 2012 – Dirk Black
  • Graduate Fellowship, Kenan Institute for Ethics – 2011 – Thomas Steffen
  • Duke Fellowship – 2008 – Amanda Gonzales
  • Deloitte Fellowship – 2006 – Mark Evans
  • Deloitte Fellowship – 2004 – Amy Zang

Topical Areas of Research

Fuqua’s faculty study a wide range of accounting topics.

Properties of Accounting Numbers

  • Katherine Schipper
  • Xu Jiang
  • Bill Mayew
  • Suresh Nallareddy
  • Mohan Venkatachalam
  • Rahul Vashishtha
  • John Heater

Accounting & Asset Pricing

  • Suresh Nallareddy
  • Katherine Schipper

Accounting Standards

  • Katherine Schipper
  • Xu Jiang
  • Qi Chen
  • Mohan Venkatachalam
  • Rahul Vashishtha

Compensation & Managerial Career Concerns

  • Qi Chen
  • John Heater
  • Bill Mayew
  • Rahul Vashishtha
  • Hao Xue

Debt Contracting

  • Rahul Vashishtha
  • Scott Dyreng

Taxes

  • Scott Dyreng

Financial Analysts

  • Bill Mayew
  • Hao Xue
  • Qi Chen

Real Effects of Information Disclosure

  • Rahul Vashishtha
  • Mohan Venkatachalam
  • John Heater

Accounting & The Macro Economy

  • Suresh Nallareddy

Firm Communication

  • Bill Mayew
  • Mohan Venkatachalam
  • John Heater
  • Rahul Vashishtha
  • Hao Xue

Corporate Governance

  • Rahul Vashishtha
  • Mohan Venkatachalam

Managerial Traits

  • John Heater
  • Mohan Venkatachalam
  • Bill Mayew

Research Methods: Analytical

Analytical researchers model economic and accounting institutions with the goal of generating empirically testable propositions. Primary research questions of interest are the relation between accounting disclosures and security prices, undertaken within market equilibrium models, and the role of accounting information in mitigating incentive problems within firms, generally formulated within principal-agent models. Other economic models are employed as well. Analytical research demands high-level training in economic theory, statistics, and mathematics. Analytical accounting researchers on the Fuqua faculty: Qi Chen, Xu Jiang, and Hao Xue.

Research Methods: Empirical-archival

Empirical researchers rely on economic theory to study, among other things, the valuation implications of accounting disclosures, executive compensation and other corporate governance issues, and financial intermediary reporting choices and forecasting behavior. Empiricists use commercially available and proprietary databases to test hypotheses within a statistical framework and must be well-trained in economic theory and statistical methods. Empirical accounting researchers on the Fuqua faculty: Scott Dyreng, John Heater, Bill Mayew, Suresh Nallareddy, Katherine Schipper, Rahul Vashishtha, and Mohan Venkatachalam.

Please visit the faculty websites for more details on their current research.

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