Bio

I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

My research investigates financial reporting, disclosure, and standards setting issues with an emphasis on internally developed and acquired intangible items. These items include R&D, brands, big data, and the like, which lack physical substance but are among the most valuable items modern firms use to generate returns to shareholders. Naturally, standards governing the information companies are required to provide about these valuable often difficult to measure items is a subject of long-standing global debate. My research is aimed at advancing this debate with new ideas that shape leading academic thought while also providing timely, policy-relevant insights to standards setters.

My research has been presented in the US and abroad at prestigious peer-reviewed and invitation-only academic conferences. My research has also been used by Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) staff to inform various projects on intangibles and by FASB board members to support conclusions underlying US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. In addition, my research is published in the Review of Accounting Studies, and I have a strong research pipeline that includes a conditional acceptance at the Journal of Financial Reporting.

I earned my PhD in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and my BS in Finance from Rutgers University.

I have experience teaching financial accounting at the undergraduate and graduate levels and managerial accounting at the undergraduate level. I also have experience assisting hedge fund manager Jim Chanos in teaching a graduate level course on capital market fraud.