ACCOUNTING INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT; INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS & MARKETS
Clinical Professor of Accounting Information & Mgmt
Director, Global Initiatives in Mmgt. Program
Prof. Finn teaches core financial accounting and international accounting. Kellogg awarded him the Chairs' Core Teaching Award in 1999. His primary research interests are related to the quality and credibility of financial disclosures, especially in non-US settings. His research articles include "Market Rewards for Increasing Earnings Patterns" published in the Journal of Accounting Research and "Disclosure Quality and the Probability of Informed Trade," a recent working paper. Prof. Finn has also served as a consultant in the areas of portfolio management and securities litigation. He is fluent in Japanese and prior to his university career worked in accounting and bank management for both US and Japanese corporations.
Financial Accounting
Financial Disclosure/Statements
Financial Reporting
International Accounting
International Finance (Exchange Rates, Current Account)
International Trade
Pension Funds
Risk Management
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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.
Financial Reporting and Analysis II (ACCT-452-0)
This course counts toward the following majors: Accounting, International Business, Managerial Economics
This course covers a series of financial reporting topics that have received considerable attention from the financial community in recent years. These include accounting for share-based compensation, pensions and other post-retirement benefits, market value accounting, business combinations, intangible assets, foreign operations, and off-balance sheet structures such as special purpose entities. Each of these topics entails important international dimensions, and students will gain familiarity with several of the most important differences between U.S. and non-U.S. accounting. ACCT-451 is not a prerequisite for this class; however, some of the material is comparatively technical, and students will need a firm understanding of basic financial accounting.
Global Initiatives in Management (GIM) (INTL-473-0)
This course counts toward the following majors: Biotechnology Management, International Business
This course offers students an opportunity to learn about non-U.S. business environments within an innovative and flexible framework that combines traditional classroom-based learning with structured in-country field research. From its inception in 1989 as one class of 34 students covering the Soviet Union, the program has grown to become a cornerstone of the Kellogg experience for many students. The school currently sponsors 13 GIM courses composed of approximately 400 students traveling to 15 countries. Evanston full-time students gain admission to GIM classes through the bidding process in the fall quarter. Classroom instruction is held during the winter quarter, followed by two weeks of field research abroad and seminar presentations of written student reports during the spring quarter. (TMP and EMP GIM classes sometimes follow different schedules.) GIM courses are organized by student leaders under the guidance of a faculty adviser. If you would like to become a GIM student leader, please contact the IBMP office for more information.
Global Initiatives in Management combines classroom study with a 12-day research trip abroad to observe overseas business operations firsthand and to meet with industry executives and political leaders.
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