Managerial accounting, management compensation, financial disclosure, information economics, economics of standards, auditors’ liability
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Ronald A. Dye
ACCOUNTING INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT
Leonard Spacek Professor of Accounting Information & Mngt
Chair of Accounting Information & Management Department
A faculty member at the Kellogg School of Management since 1986, Ronald Dye was named the Leonard Spacek Professor of Accounting Information and Management in 1993. Previously, he held appointments in accounting and economics at the University of Chicago and in accounting at Yale University.
Control Systems
Corporate Governance
Cost Accounting
Financial Accounting
Financial Disclosure/Statements
Financial Reporting
Information Economics
Management Compensation
Managerial Accounting
Performance Evaluations
Security Analysis
Professor Dye's teaching and research interests include managerial accounting, management compensation, financial disclosure, information economics, and the economics of standards. He is the author of more than 25 papers which have appeared in leading academic journals of accounting and economics, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Business, and the Journal of Political Economy. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Review of Accounting Studies.
Professor Dye regularly gives seminars at leading international business schools. Most recently, he has been studying and lecturing on how firms' can improve their strategic decision-making through their accounting choices.
Areas of Expertise
Activity-based AccountingControl Systems
Corporate Governance
Cost Accounting
Financial Accounting
Financial Disclosure/Statements
Financial Reporting
Information Economics
Management Compensation
Managerial Accounting
Performance Evaluations
Security Analysis
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Education
PhD, 1980, Economics, Carnegie Mellon UniversityMS, 1978, Economics, Carnegie Mellon UniversityBS, 1976, Mathematics, State University of New York, Cortland
Academic Positions
Chairman of Department of Accounting and Information Management, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2001-presentLeonard Spacek Professor of Accounting, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1993-presentVisiting Professor of Accounting, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, 2006-2006Visiting Goizueta Professor of Financial Reporting, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, 2000-2000Chairman of Department of Accounting and Information Management, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1993-1999Visiting Professor of Accounting, School of Management, Yale University, 1997-1997Eric L. Kohler Professor of Accounting, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1990-1993Visitng Professor of Accounting, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1989-1990Professor of Accounting, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1988-1989Associate Professor of Accounting, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1986-1988Associate Professor of Accounting, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1985-1986Assistant Professor of Accounting and Business Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1983-1985Assistant Professor of Business Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1980-1983
Editorial Positions
Editorial Board, Contemporary Accounting Research, 2004Co-Editor, Foundations of Accounting, 2006Editorial Board, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 1988Editorial Board, Journal of Accounting Research, 1984Editorial Board, Review of Accounting Studies, 1996
Consulting
Susman Godfrey LLP (Houston) Shaffer Lombardo Shurin (Kansas City)
Freeman Freeman & Salzman (Chicago)
Novack and Macey LLP (Chicago)
Cravath, Swaine, & Moore LLP (New York)
Dairy Queen Operators’ Association and Cooperative
Crowell & Moring (Washington)
Baker & McKenzie (London and Hong Kong)
Internal Revenue Service
State Farm Insurance (Chicago)
Research Interests
Articles
Dye, Ronald A. and Swaminathan Sridharan. 2008. A Positive Theory of Flexibility in Accounting Standards. Journal of Accounting and Economics.
Dye, Ronald A. and Swaminathan Sridharan. 2007. The Allocational Effects of the Precision of Accounting Estimates. Journal of Accounting Research. 45(4): 731-769.
Dye, Ronald A. and Swaminathan Sridharan. 2005. Moral Hazard Severity and Contract Design. RAND Journal of Economics. 36(1): 78-92.
Dye, Ronald A. and Swaminathan Sridharan. 2004. Reliability-Relevance Tradeoffs and the Efficiency of Aggregation. Journal of Accounting Research. 42(1): 51-88.
Dye, Ronald A.. 2004. Strategy Selection and Performance Measurement Choice when Profit Drivers are Uncertain. Management Science. 50(12): 1624-1637.
Dye, Ronald A. and Swaminathan Sridharan. 2003. Investment Implications of Information Acquisition and Leakage. Management Science. 49(6): 767-783.
Dye, Ronald A.. 2002. Classifications Manipulation and Nash Accounting Standards. Journal of Accounting Research. 40(4): 1125-1162.
Dye, Ronald A. and Swaminathan Sridharan. 2002. Resource Allocation Effects of Price Reactions to Disclosures. Contemporary Accounting Research. 19(3): 385-410.
Dye, Ronald A.. 2001. An Evaluation of Essays on Disclosure and the Disclosure Literature in Accounting. Journal of Accounting and Economics. 32(1-3): 181-235.
Dye, Ronald A. and Shyam Sunder. 2001. Why Not Allow FASB and IASB Standards to Compete in the U.S.?. Accounting Horizons. 15(3): 257-271.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1999. Risk, Return, and Moral Hazard. Journal of Accounting Research. 37(1): 27-55.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1998. Discussion of: "On the Frequency, Quality, and Informational Role of Mandatory Financial Reports". Journal of Accounting Research. 36(Supplement): 149-160.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1998. Investor Sophistication and Voluntary Disclosures. Review of Accounting Studies. 3(3): 261-287.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1995. Discretion vs Uniformity: Choices Among GAAP. Accounting Review. 70(3): 389-415.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1995. Incorporation and the Audit Market. Journal of Accounting and Economics. 19(1): 75-114.
Dye, Ronald A. and Swaminathan Sridharan. 1995. Industry-Wide Disclosure Dynamics. Journal of Accounting Research. 33(1): 157-174.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1993. Auditing Standards, Legal Liability, and Auditor Wealth. Journal of Political Economy. 101(5): 887-914.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1993. Limiting Auditors' Liability. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. 2(3): 435-443.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1992. Relative Performance Evaluation and Project Selection. Journal of Accounting Research. 30(1): 27-52.
Dye, Ronald A. and Robert Magee. 1991. Discretion in Reporting Managerial Performance. Economics Letters. 35(4): 359-363.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1991. Informationally Motivated Auditor Replacement. Journal of Accounting and Economics. 14(4): 347-374.
Dye, Ronald A., Bala Balachandran and Robert Magee. 1990. Contingent Fees for Audit Firms. Journal of Accounting Research. 28(2): 239-266.
Balachandran, Bala and Ronald A. Dye. 1990. Discussion of Optimal Employment Contracts and the Returns to Monitoring in a Principal-Agent Context. Contemporary Accounting Research. 6(2-II): 796-799.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1990. Mandatory vs. Voluntary Disclosures: The Cases of Financial and Real Externalities. Accounting Review. 65(1): 1-24.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1988. Earnings Management in an Overlapping Generations Model. Journal of Accounting Research. 26(2): 195-235.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1986. An Economic Analysis of Bankruptcy Statutes. Economic Inquiry. 24(3): 417-428.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1986. Cost-Minimizing Welfare Programs. Journal of Public Economics. 30(2): 259-265.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1986. Optimal Monitoring Policies in Agencies. Rand Journal of Economics. 17(3): 339-350.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1986. Proprietary and Nonproprietary Disclosures. Journal of Business. 59(2): 331-366.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1985. Costly Contract Contingencies. International Economic Review. 26(1): 233-250.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1985. Disclosure of Nonproprietary Information. Journal of Accounting Research. 23(1): 123-145.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1985. Optimal Length of Labor Contracts. International Economic Review. 26(1): 251-270.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1985. Strategic Accounting Choice and the Effects of Alternative Financial Reporting. Journal of Accounting Research. 23(2): 544-574.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1984. Inside-Trading and Incentives. Journal of Business. 57(3): 295-313.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1984. Self-Selection via Fringe Benefits. Journal of Labor Economics. 2(3): 388-411.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1984. The Trouble with Tournaments. Economic Inquiry. 22(1): 147-149.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1983. Communication and Post-Decision Information. Journal of Accounting Research. 21(2): 514-533.
Book Chapters
Dye, Ronald A. and Mark Finn. 2007. "Equilibrium Voluntary Disclosures When Firms Possess Random Multidimensional Private Information." In Essays on Accounting Theory in Honor of Joel S. Demski, edited by Rick Antle; Pierre Jinghong Liang, Frøystein Gjesdal, New York, NY: Springer Publishing.
Dye, Ronald A.. 1988. "Intrafirm Resource Allocation and Discretionary Actions." In Economic Analysis of Information and Contracts: Essays in Honor of John E. Butterworth [editors Feltham, Amershi, Ziemba].
Teaching Interests
Managerial accounting, management compensation, financial disclosure, information economics, economics of standards, auditors’ liabilityFull-Time / Part-Time MBA
Accounting For Decision Making (ACCT-430-0)This course counts toward the following majors: Accounting.
This course acquaints students with the process used to construct and understand the financial reports of organizations. The objective is to understand the decisions that must be made in the financial reporting process and to develop the ability to evaluate and use accounting data. Emphasis is placed on understanding the breadth of accounting measurement practices and on being able to make the adjustments necessary for careful analysis. The course highlights the linkages between accounting information and management planning, and decision making and control.
Doctoral
Seminar on Agency Theory and Information Economics (ACCT-520-4)This course studies models of economic roles of information and contracting in agency and adverse selection settings. Students will develop the model-building tools necessary to derive solutions in accounting research applications.
Executive MBA
Accounting for Management Planning & Control (ACCTX-431-0)Accounting for Management Planning and Control details the use of financial information in management. Topics include profitability and performance measurement and activity-based management and decision support.
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