Department of Accounting
Michigan's Department of Accounting is one of the leading in the country.
Our faculty have an international reputation for path-breaking research in areas
such as corporate financial reporting and disclosure practices, accounting-based
valuation, compensation, and management performance and control systems. We leverage this research strength to offer leading-edge
classes in the core areas of financial and managerial accounting, as well as
some of the most popular elective classes in the Ross School of Business.
Research
The Accounting group prides itself on being one of the top
research groups in the country, with strengths in both financial and managerial
accounting. Michigan accounting faculty have won the American Accounting
Association's Notable Contributions to the Accounting Literature prize on numerous occasions,
and also contribute to top journals in the field including:
- Journal of Accounting and Economics
- Review of Accounting
Studies
- The Accounting Review
- Journal of Accounting and Economics
- Journal of Accounting Research
- The Journal of Finance
- Journal of Financial Economics
On the financial side, faculty research spans all areas of
empirical financial accounting research, including research on capital markets,
corporate financial reporting and corporate disclosure, as well as related
topics in investments and corporate finance. Specific topics include
accounting-based valuation, quality of earnings (including the use of
accruals-based investment strategies), growth- and value-based investment
strategies, corporate disclosure practices, the interaction between tax and
financial reporting, earnings management research, security analysts' earnings
forecasts and stock recommendations, pro-forma reporting and market efficiency.
On the managerial side, faculty research interests include
accounting-based performance measurement systems and firm performance, the
incentive effects of "risky" executive compensation, compensation systems more
generally, reward systems in hierarchical organizations, and accounting and
environmental issues.
The Accounting group's research activities are generously
supported by the Paton Accounting Center, as well as by the Ross School of Business.
Teaching
The Department of Accounting at the Ross School of Business is an integral part of all the School’s degree and non-degree
programs. The Department offers courses in the BBA, MBA, Evening MBA, Global MBA
and Executive Education programs. Additionally, the Department is responsible
for the only specialized graduate program at the Ross School of Business—the Master of
Accounting program.
The Accounting Department is supported by the Paton
Accounting Center, whose mission is to do all that is necessary to maintain our
tradition of excellence in accounting education. That excellence is driven
primarily by the effective interactions among outstanding students and
outstanding faculty. The Paton Center operates various funds that provide
support for students and faculty. Its mission is achieved by facilitating
activities that attract and help to retain students and faculty of the highest
caliber. The Paton Center and its many specific initiatives, such as the Kapnick
Workshop Series, have played a central role in maintaining the superb accounting
education at the Ross School of Business.
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