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Swaminathan Sridharan (Sri)
John L. and Helen Kellogg Distinguished Professor
of Accounting Information and Management
Accounting Information and Management
Ph.D.,
University of Pittsburgh (1990), MBA, Indian Institute
of Management, Ahmedabad (1979), B. Com., University
of Madras, (1976), Member of Institute of Chartered
Accountants of India (1981), Institute of Cost
and Works Accountants of India (1979) and Institute
of Company Secretaries of India (1981).
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| Academic
Positions Held |
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Kellogg
School of Management
John L. and Helen Kellogg Distinguished Professor of
Accounting Information and Management
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| Courses
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Financial
Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Profit Planning and
Control, Project Management and Project Report, Global
Initiatives in Management and Seminars on Information
Economics and Contracting. |
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| Career
and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards |
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1989
Doctoral dissertation Grants-in-Aid award from the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
1986 - 1989 Graduate Student Research Assistantship from
Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh.
1981 Ranked first nationally in Advanced Accounting, Auditing
and Financial Management papers in the final examination
of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and
was ranked second nationally in terms of overall performance.
1979 Ranked fourth nationally in the final examination
of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.
1972 - 1976 National Merit Scholarship of the Government
of India.1976-77 and 79-84; Senior Manager of a consulting
and public accounting firm;
1984-86 Chief Financial Officer for a group of manufacturing
companies. |
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| Professional
Leadership |
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I was a member of the editorial board of the Accounting
Review for six years. I am currently a member of
the editorial boards of Journal of Accounting, Auditing,
and Finance, Journal of Management Accounting Research,
and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. I have
served as a reviewer for several academic journals such
as Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting
and Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of Economics
and Management Strategy, Review of Financial Studies,
Management Science, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary
Accounting Research, Strategic Management Journal, European
Journal of Operations Research, Journal of Economic Behavior
and Organization, etc.
Have presented research papers at several leading universities
and conferences. |
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| Research
Areas |
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Impact
of the interaction of different factor markets on the
characteristics of accounting and information systems
of a firm, strategic implications of disclosures to multiple
constituents, managerial incentives in the adoption of
accounting and other disclosure policies, the use of accounting
and other data by the financial markets in firm valuation,
and interaction of disclosure and investment decisions.
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Projects |
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Dye,
R. A. and S. Sridhar, "A Simple Model of Costs
and Benefits of Accounting Standards."
Sridhar, S. and B. V. Balachandran, "Efficiency-Promoting
Aggregate Disclosures".
Ramanan, N. and S. Sridhar, "On Noncontractibility
of Performance Measures".
Dye, R. A. and S. Sridhar, "On the Desirability
of Excessively Intervening Boards".
Dye, R. A. and S. Sridhar, "Equilibrium Price Trajectories
and Optimal Dynamic Disclosure Policies".
Dye, R.A. and S. Sridhar, “The Impact of Hedging
Opportunities on Corporate Allocational and Disclosure
Decisions".
Sridhar, S. and B.V. Balachandran, “When Is Ignorance
Blissful?”
Beyer, A and Sridhar, S. "Integrity and Oversight
of Auditors".
Sridhar, S. “On the Desirability of Off-balance
Sheet Financing".
Sridhar, S. "Influence of Debt on Disclosure Policies"
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| Representative
Publications |
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Dye, R. A. and S. Sridhar, "The Allocation
Effects of Precision of Accounting Estimates" (forthcoming
in Journal of Accounting Research)
Beyer, A., and S. Sridhar, "Effects of Multiple
Clients on the Reliability of Audit Reports", Journal
of Accounting Research, Vol. 44, number 1, March
2006.
Dye,
R.A. and S. Sridhar “Moral Hazard Severity and
Contract Design,” Rand Journal of Economics
(Spring 2005), vol. 36, no. 1: pp 78-92.
Dye, R. and S. Sridhar "Reliability-Relevance Trade-offs
and the Efficiency of Aggregation," Journal
of Accounting Research vol. 42, no. 1 (March 2004):
pp. 51-88.
Dye, R.A. and S. Sridhar, “Investment Implications
of Information Acquisition and Leakage,” The
Management Science, vol. 49, no. 6, (June 2003):
767-783.
Nagarajan, N. and S. Sridhar, "Corporate Responses
to Segment Disclosure Requirements". Published
by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Surrey, UK (2003)
Dye, R.A. and S. Sridhar, “Resource Allocation
Effects of Price Reactions to Disclosures,” Contemporary
Accounting Research, vol. 19, no. 3, (Fall 2002).
Evans, J.H. and S. Sridhar, “Disclosure-Disciplining
Mechanisms: Capital Markets, Product Markets, and Shareholder
Litigation,” The Accounting Review, vol.
77, no. 3, (July 2002).
Sridhar, S. and R.P. Magee, "Disclosure and Recognition
Requirements: Corporate Investment Decisions with Externalities,"
Contemporary Accounting Research vol. 18 no. 1
(Spring 2001).
Sridhar, S. and B. Balachandran, "Choice of An
Information Structure Versus A Production Environment:
A Managerial Control Perspective" in The Journal
of Accounting and Public Policy, Vol. 18, No.3,
(Autumn 1999).
Sridhar,
S. and B. Balachandran, "Incomplete Information,
Task Assignment and Managerial Control Systems,"
The Management Science (June 1997).
Nagarajan, N. and S. Sridhar, "Corporate Responses
to Segment Disclosure Requirements," Journal
of Accounting and Economics (April 1996): 253-75
Evans,
J. and S. Sridhar, "Multiple Control Systems, Accrual
Accounting, and Earnings Management," Journal
of Accounting Research (Spring 1996): 45-66.
Sridhar,
S. and R. Magee, "Financial Contracts, Opportunism
and Disclosure Management," The Review of Accounting
Studies, Volume 1, Number 3 (1996).
Dye,
R. and S. Sridhar, "Industry-wide Disclosure Dynamics,"
Journal of Accounting Research (Spring 1995):
157-74.
Nagarajan,
N., K. Shivaramakrishnan and S. Sridhar, "Managerial
Entrenchment, Reputation Building and the Optimality
of Short-Term Projects," Journal of Accounting,
Auditing and Finance (Summer 1995): 565-86.
Sridhar, S., "Managerial Reputation and Internal
Reporting," The Accounting Review (April
1994): 343-63. |
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