Specialties

Positions Held

At University of Washington since 2000.
Doctoral Student and Associate Instructor at Indiana University (1994-2000).
U.S. Representative for Namera Trading Company (1991 – 1994).
Quality Control Manager for Pacific Lumber & Shipping Company (1988 – 1991).

Selected Publications

• "The Association Between Non-Professional Investors' Information Choices and Portfolio Returns: The Importance of Investing Experience," with Brooke Elliott and Kevin Jackson, Contemporary Accounting Research, forthcoming.
  
  
• "Top Management Team Prestige and Organizational Legitimacy: An Examiniation of Investor Perceptions," with Trevis Certo, Journal of Managerial Issues, forthcoming.
  
  
• "Are MBA students a Good Proxy for Non-Professional Investors?" with Brooke Elliott, Jane Kennedy and Maarten Pronk, The Accounting Review, January 2007.
  
  
• "The Evolution of Stock Option Accounting: Disclosure, Voluntary Recognition, Mandated Recognition and Management Disavowals," with Jim Frederickson and Jamie Pratt, The Accounting Review, October 2006.
  
  
• "Management Reporting Incentives and Classification Credibility: The Effects of Reporting Discretion and Reputation," with Pat Hopkins and Jamie Pratt, Accounting, Organizations and Society, October 2006.
  
  
• "Audit Qualifications of Income-Decreasing Accounting Changes,” with Roger Martin and Jamie Pratt, Contemporary Accounting Research, Summer 2006.
  
  
• "The Impact of Expertise and Investment Familiarity on Investors’ Use of Online Financial Report Information,” with Maarten Pronk, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Summer 2006.
  
  
• "Does Search-facilitating Technology Improve the Transparency of Financial Reporting?" with Jane Kennedy and Laureen Maines, The Accounting Review, July 2004.
  
  
• "Investors’ Perception of Earnings Quality, Auditor Independence, and the Usefulness of Audited Financial Information," Accounting Horizons, Supplement 2003.
  
  
• "Hyperlinking Unaudited Information to Audited Financial Statements: Effects on Investor Judgments," The Accounting Review, October 2001.
  
  

Working Papers

• "The Impact of Overconfidence, Optimisim, and Loss Aversion on Investors' Trading Behavior around Earnings Announcements," with Christof Beuselinck and Maarten Prank.
  
  
• "Fair Value vs. Historical Cost of Tangible Assets: The Effects on Non-Professional Investors' Decisions," with Max Hewitt and Jane Kennedy.
  
  
• “How do Managers Value Stock Options and Restricted Stock?” with Shiva Rajgopal and Terry Shevlin.
  
  

Current Research

How individuals make investment decisions using accounting information, financial disclosure issues and their impact on investors’ decision-making processes.

Honors and Awards

William A. and Helen I. Fowler Endowment for Special Achievement in Accounting (2008)
Dean's Faculty Research Award (2007)
Undergraduate Instructor of the Year for Accounting (2005, 2007)
Appointed to the Financial Accounting Standards Research Initiative (2007)
Dean's Junior Faculty Research Award (2006)
Beta Alpha Psi Professor of the Year Award (2006)
Lane A. Daley Faculty Fellowship (2005 to present)
CFO Forum Summer Fellowship (2005)

Academic Service

Honor Code Committee Chair
Deloitte & Touche LLP Case Competition Coordinator
Core values/ethics in the accounting curriculum committee