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Wendy Heltzer
Wendy Heltzer

ACCOUNTING INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT
Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting Information & Management

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Wendy Heltzer’s research interests include earnings quality and book-tax differences. Heltzer has published papers on these topics in the Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance and Advances in Accounting.
Outside of academia Heltzer has experience in the corporate world; she worked at Ernst & Young, LLP as a Senior Tax Consultant. Heltzer brings many of her experiences from the corporate world into the classroom, to help prepare her students for their post-graduation jobs.

Heltzer earned her B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School (1996), and her MBA and Ph.D. from Chicago Booth (2006).

Heltzer currently serves on the board of the Lynn Sage Cancer Research Foundation.
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Full-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.

Accounting for Decision Making (ACCT-438-B)
This course is a condensed version of ACCT-430 (Accounting for Decision Making) for One-Year students. See ACCT-430 course description for more details.

Securities Analysis (FINC-463-0)

This course counts toward the following majors: Accounting, Finance.

This course focuses on the valuation of publicly traded equity securities. The tools and techniques include fundamental analysis ("bottoms-up," firm-level, business and financial analysis), preparation of pro forma financial statements, estimation of free cash flows and application of valuation models. The firm's financial statement data constitute a major input to the valuation process. We use cases to illustrate and apply these techniques in several different settings, although this is not a "case course." The goal of the course is to provide students with a strong theoretical and applied understanding of the valuation of equity securities.