Emeritus Professor, Accounting

PhD in Business Administration, University of Iowa

BBA in Accounting, University of Iowa

Faculty Career Achievement Research Award - Tippie College of Business, 2022

Lifetime Achievement Award - American Accounting Association, FARS, 2019

Distinguished PhD Mentoring Award - American Accounting Association, FARS, 2016

Outstanding Educator Award - American Accounting Association, 2001

Financial Accounting & Reporting Doctoral Consortium Presenter - American Accounting Association, FARS, 2008

Distinguished Faculty - Canadian Doctoral Consortium, 2007

Doctoral Consortium Distinguished Faculty Presenter - American Accounting Association, 2007

Collins, D. W. & Capkun, V. (2019). The Effects of IFRS Adoption on Observed Earnings Smoothing Properties: The Confounding Effects of Changes in Timely Gain and Loss Recognition. European Accounting Review.

Chen, C., Collins, D. W., Kravet, T., & Mergenthaler, R. (2018). Financial Statement Comparability and the Efficiency of Acquisition Decisions. Contemporary Accounting Research.

Revsine, L., Collins, D. W., Johnson, W., Mittelstaedt, F., & Soffer, L. (2018). Financial Reporting & Analysis, 7th edition In . (7th) pp. 1117. McGraw-Hill, Irwin.

Collins, D. W., Hribar, P., & Tian, X. (2014). Cash Flow Asymmetry: Causes and Implications for Conditional Conservatism Research. Journal of Accounting and Economics. 58 (2) pp. 173-200.

Badertscher, B., Collins, D. W., & Lys, T. (2012). Discretionary Accounting Choices and the Predictive Ability of Accruals with Respect to Future Cash Flows. Journal of Accounting and Economics. 53 pp. 330-352.

McInnis, J. & Collins, D. W. (2011). The Effect of Cash Flow Forecasts on Accrual Quality and Benchmark Beating. Journal of Accounting and Economics. 51 pp. 219-239.

Collins, D. W., Gong, G., & Li, H. (2009). Corporate Governance and the Backdating of Executive Stock Options. Contemporary Accounting Research. 26 (2) pp. 403-445.

Ashbaugh-Skaife, H., Collins, D. W., Kinney, W., & LaFond, R. (2009). The Effect of SOX Internal Control Deficiencies on Firm Risk and Cost of Equity. Journal of Accounting Research. 47 (1) pp. 1-44.

Collins, D. W., Li, O., & Xie, H. (2009). What Drives the Increased Informativeness of Earnings Announcements over Time? Review of Accounting Studies. 14 (1) pp. 1-30.

Ashbaugh-Skaife, H., Collins, D. W., Kinney, W., & LaFond, R. (2008). The Effect of SOX Internal Control Deficiencies and Their Remediation on Accrual Quality. The Accounting Review. 83 (1) pp. 217-250.

"The Persistence and Pricing of Asset Growth: the role of M&A Activity," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, November 2019.

"The Persistence and Pricing of Merger-Related Transitory Growth and Its Implications for Growth Anomalies and Asset Pricing Models," Guest/Invited Speaker at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, November 2015.

"Research Design Issues in Capital Markets Research," Guest/Invited Speaker at SPAR Doctoral Consortium, Munich, Germany, July 2015.

"Design Issues in Empirical Capital Markets Research," Guest/Invited Speaker at XI International Accounting Research Conference, Madrid, Spain, July 2015.

"Financial Statement Comparability and the Efficiency of Acquisition Decisions," Guest/Invited Speaker at University Lancaster Workshop, Lancaster, United Kingdom, October 2014.

"Financial Statement Comparability and the Efficiency of Acquisition Decisions," Guest/Invited Speaker at HEC-Paris, Paris, France, July 2014.

"Financial Statement Comparability and the Efficiency of Acquistion Decisions," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, April 2014.

"The Persistence and Pricing of Merger Related Transition Growth and its Implications for Growth Anomalies and Asset Pricing Models," Guest/Invited Speaker at Oklahoma State Accounting Research Conference, Stillwater, Oklahoma, April 2017.

"The Persistence and Pricing of Merger Related Transition Growth and its Implications for Growth Anomalies and Asset Pricing Models," Guest/Invited Speaker at Texas A&M University-College Station, College Station, Texas, March 2017.

"The Persistence and Pricing of Merger Related Transition Growth and its Implications for Growth Anomalies and Asset Pricing Models," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas, November 2016.

Henry B. Tippie Research Chair in Accounting, Accounting, University of Iowa, 1989 - 2022