Specialties

Positions Held

At the University of Washington since 1986
Assistant professor at the University of British Columbia (1982-86)

Selected Publications

• Executive Compensation and Non-Financial Risk: An Empirical Examination," with Katherine Campbell, Derek Johnston and Naomi Soderstrom, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, forthcoming.
  
• "Earnings Management, Stock Issues, and Shareholder Lawsuits," with Larry L. DuCharme and Paul Malatesta, Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 71, 2004, pp. 27-49.
  
  
• "Earnings Management: IPO Valuation and Subsequent Performance," with Larry L. DuCharme and Paul Malatesta, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, Vol. 16, No. 4, Fall 2001, pp. 369-396.
  
  
• "Disclosure of Contingent Environmental Liabilities: Some Unintended Consequences?" with S. Jane Kennedy and Terrence R. Mitchell, Journal of Accounting Research, Autumn 1998, pp. 257-277.
  
  
• "An Empirical Examination of Dividend Policy Following Debt Issues," with Michael S. Long and Ileen B. Malitz, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, March 1994, pp. 131-144.
  
  
• "Determinants of Accounting Method Choice in the Savings and Loan Industry," with Walter G. Blacconiere, Robert M. Bowen, and Christopher H. Stinson, Journal of Accounting and Economics, June 1991, pp. 167-201.
  
  
• "Insubstance Defeasances: Security Price Reactions and Motivation," with John R. M.Hand and Patricia J. Hughes, Journal of Accounting and Economics, May 1990, pp. 47-89.
  
  
• "A Test of Dividend Irrelevance Using Volume Reactions to a Change in Dividend Policy," with Gordon Richardson and Rex Thompson, Journal of Financial Economics, December 1986, pp.313-333.
  
  

Current Research

Accounting irregularities, corporate governance and class-action lawsuits.

Working Papers

• “Why was Internet IPO Underpricing so Severe?” with Larry L. DuCharme and Shiva Rajgopal, April 2002.
  
  

Honors and Awards

Undergraduate Professor of the Year for Accounting (2006, 2008)
Wells Fargo Faculty Award for Undergraduate Teaching (2006)
Undergraduate Professor of the Quarter for Spring for Accounting (2006)
WSCPA Outstanding Educator (2003-2004)
Technology Management MBA Excellence in Teaching Award (2003)
PACCAR Award for Teaching Excellence (1999)
Reimers Research Fellow (1999)
The Management Program's Excellence in Teaching Award (1998 & 1999)
Dan Seigel Service Award (1992 & 1999)
Dean's Leadership and Service Award (1998)
Charles Summer Teaching Award (1996)
Andrew V. Smith Faculty Development Award (1996)
Research Fellow in The Environmental Management Program (1994-99)
William R. Gregory Accounting Faculty Fellow (1993-94)
MBA Core Professor of the Year (1993)
Alpha Kappa Psi Undergraduate Professor of the Year (1992)
Burlington Northern Foundation Teaching Achievement Award (1990)

Academic Service

Faculty Senate (2005-current)
Faculty Director MS/MBA Program (2005-2007)
Faculty Director Technology Management MBA Program (2002-2007)
Chairman of Department of Accounting (1999-2002)
Emeritus, Advisory Board of the Business Economics Development Program (2004-current)
Advisory Board of the Business and Economic Development Program (1995-2004)
Head of Faculty Council (1998-1999)
Chairman of Masters Program committee (1994-96)
Editorial board of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy