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- W344 Pappajohn Business Building (PBB)
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Positions
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Associate Professor of Accounting
Tippie College of Business
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Henry B. Tippie Fellowship, Accounting
Education
- PhD in Accounting, Cornell University, 2013
- MS in Management, Cornell University, 2012
- MAcc in Accounting, Brigham Young University, 2008
- BA in Accounting, Brigham Young University, 2007
Areas of Interest
- Judgment and decision making in accounting settings.
Licenses & Certifications
- CPA, State of Colorado, January 2008.
Selected Awards & Honors
- ABO Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2014
- Old Gold Summer Fellowship, 2014
- AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2012
- Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, 2012
- Arthur Andersen/Norman Tucker Accounting Fellowship, 2019
Selected Publications
- , & (2018). Do features that associate managers with a message magnify investors' reactions to narrative disclosures?. Accounting, Organizations and Society 68 1-14.
- , & (2018). Firm performance, reporting goals, and language in narrative disclosures. Journal of Accounting and Economics 65 (2-3).
- (2018). Horizon-induced optimism as a gateway to earnings management. Contemporary Accounting Research 35 (1) 7-30.
- , & (2017). Disclosure readability and the sensitivity of investors’ valuation judgments to outside information. The Accounting Review 92 (4) 1-25.
- & (2017). Disclaiming the future: Investigating the impact of cautionary disclaimers on investor judgments before and after experiencing economic loss. The Accounting Review 93 (4) 81-99.
- , , & (2017). The effects of out-of-regime guidance on auditor judgments about appropriate application of accounting standards. Contemporary Accounting Research 34 (2) 1026-1047.
Selected Presentations
- (2018, August) Theory Testing in Accounting Experiments. Panel presented at AAA 2018 Annual Meeting, National Harbor, Maryland.
- (2017, November) Contracts, Controllability, Fairness, and Misreporting. Workshop Bloomington, Indiana.
- (2017, October) Contracts, Controllability, Fairness, and Misreporting. Workshop Seattle, Washington.
- (2017, October) Do Features That Associate Managers With a Message Magnify Investors’ Reactions to Narrative Disclosures?. Conference Presentation presented at Accounting, Organizations & Society Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
- (2017, September) Contracts, Controllability, Fairness, and Misreporting. Workshop Austin, Texas.
- (2017, June) Contracts, Controllability, Fairness, and Misreporting. Conference Presentation presented at Midwest Accounting Research Conference, Madison, Wisconsin.
- (2015, June) Conference Presentation presented at Midwest Accounting Research Conference, Urbana-Champaign.
- (2015, January) Conference Presentation presented at FARS Research Conference, Nashville.
- (2015, January) Conference Presentation presented at FARS Research Conference (Discussant), Nashville.
- (2014, October) Conference Presentation presented at ABO Research Conference, Philadelphia.