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Academic Background

B.A., University of Oregon
M.B.A., University of Oregon
Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Research Specialties

• Costing systems and decision making
• Value-based performance measurement
• Decentralized organizations, incentives and decision making

Current Research

• Role of information quality in coordination problems
• Individual decision making criteria in coordination problems
• Role of individual verbal and numerical literacy in group coordination
• Accounting methods and the quality of accounting information

Major Works

• "Determinants of the Time Series of Earnings and Implications for Earnings Quality," with S. Chamberlain, Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 22 (3), 2005.
• "Information Transparency and Coordination Failure: Theory and Experiment," with J. Dickhaut, C. Kanodia, and B. Shapiro, Journal of Accounting Research, 2004.
• "Negotiated Transfer Pricing and Divisional vs. Firm-Wide Performance Evaluation," with S. Dutta, The Accounting Review, 1999.
• "Activity-Based Costing for Economic Value Added," with J.S. Jordan and A. Mukherji, Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 2, 1997.
• "Capital Budgeting Using Residual Income Maximization," Review of Accounting Studies, 1996.