• Ph.D., Accounting, University of Maryland at College Park, 2002
• M.S., Accounting, University of Delaware, 1998
• B.S., Accounting, University of Delaware, 1996

Honors and Activities

• PwC University for Faculty, July 2004
• Deloitte and Touché Trueblood Seminar for Professors, March 2003
• AAA New Faculty Consortium,  February 2003
• AAA/Deloitte & Touche Doctoral Consortium Fellow, June 1999
• Federation of Schools of Accountancy Student Achievement Award, May 1998

Recent Publications:

Journal Articles

• The Transitory Nature of Negative Earnings and the Implications for Earnings Prediction and Stock Valuation, 2003.  Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 21(4), 379-404.
• The Impact of the Corporate Life Cycle on the Value Relevance of Disaggregated Earnings Components, (with Gregory Kane and Uma Velury), 2004, Review of Accounting and Finance 3(4), 5-20.
• The Effect of Arbitrage Costs on the Value Relevance of Earnings, (with Uma Velury), 2005, Journal of Theoretical Accounting Research 1(1), 38-50.
• The Benefits of Hybrid Valuation Models, 2006, CPA Journal (January), 48-50.
• Earnings Quality Decline and the Effect of Industry Specialist Auditors: An Analysis of the Late 1990s, (with Gregory Kane and Uma Velury), 2006, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 25(1), 71-90.
• A Contextual Analysis of Income and Asset-based Approaches to Private Equity Valuation, (with Gregory Kane), 2006, Accounting Horizons 20(1), 19-35.
• Institutional Ownership and the Quality of Earnings, (with Uma Velury), 2006, Journal of Business Research 59(9), 1043-1051.
• Earnings Conservatism and Audit Quality:  An Examination of the Late 1990s, (with Gregory Kane and Uma Velury), 2006, Forthcoming in Journal of Forensic Accounting.
• The Effect of Institutional Ownership on the Reporting of Conservative Earnings, (with Uma Velury), 2007, Forthcoming in Corporate Ownership and Control 5 (November).

Book Chapters

• The Beginning of the Era of Professional Management, in Our Past, Our Future - 100 Years of CPAs in Maryland, 1901 - 2001, Stephen Loeb, editor (MACPA: 2002).