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Professor and Nelson D. Durst Endowed Chair

# overview
I  teach and conducts research in the area of corporate financial reporting. My research interests include financial reporting, financial analysts, and financial misconduct.

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3501 Accounting, Auditing And Accountability

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3501 Accounting, Auditing And Accountability

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3501 Accounting, Auditing And Accountability

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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Whistleblowers; Enforcement Actions; Fraud; Penalties; ﬁnancial Reporting; Securities And Exchange Commission

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Brigham Young University - (Provo, Utah, United States)

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The University of Texas at Austin - (Austin, Texas, United States)

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Brigham Young University - (Provo, Utah, United States)

# awardsAndHonors[].label
Ricky Griffin Outstanding Research Award

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Working on the Weekend: Do Analysts Strategically Time the Release of Their Recommendation Revisions?

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Which buy-side institutions participate in public earnings conference calls? Implications for capital markets and sell-side coverage

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Detecting and Predicting Accounting Irregularities: A Comparison of Commercial and Academic Risk Measures

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Short Selling Around Restatement Announcements: When Do Bears Pounce?

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Managers' use of humor on public earnings conference calls

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Rotational internal audit programs and financial reporting quality: Do compensating controls help?

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The Impact of Religion on Financial Reporting Irregularities

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Who You Know Matters: Evidence of Fee Discounts for Clients with Well-Connected Audit Committees

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Do Investors Respond to CEO Facial Expressions of Anger During Television Interviews?

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Using earnings conference calls to identify analysts with superior private information

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The People in Your Neighborhood: Evidence of Local Information Leakage Around Corporate Headquarters When Insiders Trade

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Bearish Analysts and the Issuance of 'Unbeatable' Earnings Forecasts

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Meet the press: Survey evidence on financial journalists as information intermediaries

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SAVING FACE: HOW EXIT IN RESPONSE TO NEGATIVE PRESS AND STAR ANALYST DOWNGRADES REFLECTS REPUTATION MAINTENANCE BY DIRECTORS

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Short Selling Around Restatement Announcements: When Do Bears Pounce?

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Using Earnings Conference Calls to Identify Analysts with Superior Private Information

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Managing the narrative: Investor relations officers and corporate disclosure

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The Activities of Buy-Side Analysts and the Determinants of Their Stock Recommendations

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Who's Heard on the Street? Determinants and Consequences of Financial Analyst Coverage in the Business Press

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A Level Playing Field? Empirical Evidence That Ethnic Minority Analysts Face Unequal Access to Corporate Managers

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Does Local Religiosity Impact Corporate Social Responsibility?

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Business Strategy, Financial Reporting Irregularities, and Audit Effort

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Internal Audit Outsourcing and the Risk of Misleading or Fraudulent Financial Reporting: Did SarbanesOxley Get It Wrong?*

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Managing the Media: Corporate Media Relations Officers and the Evolving Media Landscape

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Who's heard on the Street? Determinants and consequences of financial analyst coverage in the business press

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Analysts and Managers Use of Humor on Public Earnings Conference Calls

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Business Strategy, Financial Reporting Irregularities, and Audit Effort

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Internal Audit Outsourcing and the Risk of Misleading or Fraudulent Financial Reporting: Did Sarbanes-Oxley Get It Wrong?

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Are State Tax Amnesty Programs Associated with Financial Reporting Irregularities?

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Whistleblowers and Outcomes of Financial Misrepresentation Enforcement Actions

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Empirical Evidence on Repeat Restatements

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Changes in analysts' stock recommendations following regulatory action against their brokerage

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Restating Under the Radar? Determinants of Restatement Disclosure Choices and the Related Market Reactions

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Pork Bellies and Public Company Audits: Have Audits Once Again Become Just Another Commodity?

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Changes in Managers Forecasting Behavior and the Markets Assessment of Forecast Credibility during Periods of Financial Misreporting

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Managing the Narrative: Investor Relations Officers and Corporate Disclosure

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Reconciling Archival and Experimental Research: Does Internal Audit Contribution Affect the External Audit Fee?

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Inside the "Black Box" of Sell-Side Financial Analysts

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Inside the 'Black Box' of Sell-Side Financial Analysts

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Whistleblowers and Outcomes of Financial Misrepresentation Enforcement Actions

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The Impact of Religion on the Going Concern Reporting Decisions of Local Audit Offices

# publications[].label
Managers Use of Humor on Public Earnings Conference Calls

# publications[].label
The activities of buy-side analysts and the determinants of their stock recommendations

# publications[].label
Working on the weekend: Do analysts strategically time the release of their recommendation revisions?

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The Impact of Religion on the Going Concern Reporting Decisions of Local Audit Offices

# publications[].label
Empirical Evidence on Repeat Restatements

# publications[].label
The Impact of Religion on Financial Reporting Irregularities

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Detecting and Predicting Accounting Irregularities: A Comparison of Commercial and Academic Risk Measures

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The Association between Financial Reporting Risk and Audit Fees before and after the Historic Events Surrounding SOX

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; Head Of Accounting; 4353 TAMU

# inTheNews[].label
Texas A&M's Accounting Program Has Most Underrepresented Ph.D. Graduates, Faculty In U.S.