Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation

at the University of Chicago, Harvard Business School and the University of Georgia. Dr. Bradshaw was a certified public accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co. in Atlanta. Today, he conducts research on capital markets, specializing in the examination of securities analysts and financial reporting issues. His research has been published in a variety of academic and practitioner journals, and he serves as an editor for The Accounting Review and as associate editor for Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research and Journal of Financial Reporting. Dr. Bradshaw is also on the editorial board of Review of Accounting Studies and the Journal of International Accounting Research. In addition, he is a reviewer for numerous other accounting and finance journals. Dr. Bradshaw has authored a book with Brian Bruce: ANALYSTS, LIES, AND STATISTICS CUTTING THROUGH THE HYPE IN CORPORATE EARNINGS ANNOUNCEMENTS. Approximately 25 pounds ago, Dr. Bradshaw was an accomplished cyclist. Currently focused on additional leisurely pursuits, he nevertheless routinely passes younger and thinner cyclists. Stephen P. Baginski is the Herbert E. Miller Chair in Financial Accounting at the University of Georgia s J.M. Tull School of Accounting. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, and he has taught a variety of financial and managerial undergraduate, M.B.A. and executive education courses at the University of Georgia, Indiana University, Illinois State University, the University of Illinois, Northeastern University, Florida State University, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of St. Galen, the Swiss Banking Institute at the University of Zurich, Bocconi and INSEAD. Dr. Baginski has published articles in a variety of journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, The Journal of Risk and Insurance, Accounting Organizations and Society and The European Accounting Review. His research primarily deals with the causes and consequences of voluntary management disclosures of earnings forecasts, and he also investigates the usefulness of financial accounting information in security pricing and risk assessment. Dr. Baginski has served on several editorial boards and as an associate editor at Accounting Horizons and The Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. He has won numerous undergraduate and graduate teaching awards at the department, college and university levels during his career, including the Doctoral Student Inspiration Award from students at Indiana University. Dr. Baginski loves to watch college football, play golf, and run (very slowly) in his spare time.