RAMGOPAL VENKATARAMAN 2011
Asst. Professor of Accounting Tel: (214) 768-2547 Cox School of Business
Southern Methodist University 379 Crow
6212 Bishop Boulevard
Dallas, TX 75205 e-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University 2001
B.Sc. University of Madras (RKM Vivekananda College), India 1981-1984 PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
FCA The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) 1987 Grad. CWA The Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India (ICWAI) 1987 CURRENT POSITION
Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business
Assistant Professor of Accounting Fall 2007 – date PUBLICATIONS
“Litigation Risk, Audit Fees and Audit Quality: Evidence from Initial Public Offerings” with Joseph P. Weber (MIT) and Michael Willenborg (University of Connecticut).
The Accounting Review 83(5) (2008): 1315-1345
“The Determinants of Analyst-Firm Pairings” with Lihong Liang (George Washington University) and Edward J. Riedl(Harvard University) Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 27 (2008): 277-294.
“Causes and Consequences of Goodwill Impairment Losses” with Zining Li (SMU), Pervin Shroff, and Ivy Zhang (both at the University of Minnesota). Review of Accounting Studies 16 (2011): 745-778
“The Conservatism Principle and the Asymmetric Timeliness of Earnings: An Event-based Approach” (co-authored with Prof. Pervin K. Shroff and Suning Zhang). Contemporary Accounting Research (forthcoming))
WORKING PAPERS
“Timeliness of Analysts’ Forecasts: The Informational Role of Follower Analysts” (co-authored with Prof. Pervin K. Shroff and Baohua Xin). Being revised for a resubmission to CAR (third round)
“R&D Reporting Rule and Firm Efficiency” (co-authored with Neil Bhattacharya, Yoshie Saito and Jeff Yu). Submitted to Journal of Accounting Research.
Other Unpublished Research
“SEC-Mandated MD&A Disclosures: News that can have a substantial effect on stock prices” (co-authored with Prof. Orie E. Barron and Prof. Charles Kile)..
“The Impact of SFAS 131 on Financial Analysts’ Information Environment” WORK IN PROGRESS
“Financial Analyst Responses to Competition in the Information Market” (with Jae Bum Kim, doctoral student, University of Minnesota
“Diffusion of Misconduct in Financial Reporting (with Swami Kalpathy and Wendy Wilson, both at SMU)
“The Role of Information Intermediaries in Intangible Intensive Industries” (with Neil Bhattacharya and Jeff Yu)
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
11th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, University of Michigan, 2000 Penn State University, 2000
Columbia University, 2001 University of Michigan, 2001 Michigan State University, 2001
University of California, Berkeley, 2001 University of Iowa, 2001
Washington University at St. Louis, 2001 New York University, 2001
London Business School, 2001 University of Minnesota 2001 University of Minnesota 2002
University of Minnesota mini-conference on Empirical Accounting Research, 2002 Baruch College, CUNY, 2003
Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, AAA, Annual Mid-year Meeting, 2003 George Washington University, 2003
University of Minnesota mini-conference on Empirical Accounting Research, 2003
14th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, Indiana University, 2003 American Accounting Association, Annual Meeting, 2004
National University of Singapore, 2005
University of Minnesota mini-conference on Empirical Accounting Research, 2005 Penn State Accounting Research Colloquium, 2005
16th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, Univ. of North Carolina, 2005 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, AAA, Annual Mid-year Meeting, 2006
The Ohio State University, 2006 Southern Methodist University, 2006
Baruch College, City University of New York, 2006 The University of Texas at Dallas, 2007
Indian School of Business Accounting Research Conference, 2007 Texas Christian University, Lone Star Research Conference, 2011 INVITED CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE
Washington University of St. Louis Accounting Conference, 2005 Accounting Foundations Conference, Emory University, 2006 Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation Conference, 2006
University of Minnesota conference on empirical accounting research, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Asia Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics Conference, 2011
Contemporary Accounting Research Conference, 2011 OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Ad-hoc Reviewer The Accounting Review
Contemporary Accounting Research Management Science
Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance Journal of Accounting and Public Policy Accounting Horizons
Review of Accounting Studies
Accounting and Business Research, 2010
The International Conference of Information Systems, 2002 AAA Annual Meeting, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009. 2010, 2011 The Journal of International Business Studies, 2003
Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Meeting, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2011. Information Systems Research, 2005 and 2006
Others
Dr. K Nirmala Prasad Endowment Lecture at The Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai, India, 2007.
Discussant, Indian School of Business Accounting Research Conference, 2007 Discussant, FARS mid-year Meeting, 2008, 2010, 2011
Moderator, AAA Annual Meeting, 2005 Moderator, FARS mid-year Meeting, 2010
Member, Best Dissertation Committee, FAR Section of the AAA, 2004-2005. SERVICE ON MASTERS AND DOCTORAL COMMITTEES
Haiwen Zhang, Ph.D. Accounting (placed at Ohio State University, 2006) Suning Zhang, Ph.D. Accounting (placed at George Mason University, 2006) Zining Li, Ph.D. Accounting (placed at Southern Methodist University, 2007) Timothy Shields, Ph.D. Accounting. (placed at Chapman University, 2008) Dawn Sargent, M.S. Statistics
Alexander Nekrasov, Ph.D. Accounting (Placed at UC Irvine, 2008)
Stephanie Dehning-Grimm, Ph.D. Accounting (placed at University of St. Thomas, 2009) Current committee membership
Lakshmana Kumar Krishna-Moorthy, Ph.D. Accounting (University of Minnesota) TEACHING:
Undergraduate
Southern Methodist University
ACCT 2312: Foundations of Accounting II University of Minnesota
ACCT 3001: Introduction to Managerial Accounting MBA
Southern Methodist University ACCT 6205: Managerial Accounting
EMBA: Accounting 6303: Managerial Accounting University of Minnesota
Evening MBA Core
MBA 6035: Managerial Accounting MBA Elective
ACCT 6320: Advanced Managerial Accounting
This is a course that I designed and developed at the request of the MBA program Executive MBA:
Managerial Accounting (China Program) Ph.D.
Empirical Accounting Research Seminar 1: Co-taught with Prof. Pervin Shroff (2005) Empirical Accounting Research Seminar II: Co-taught with Prof. Ivy Zhang (2006)
DISTINCTIONS & AWARDS
Award Awarded by Year
McKnight Summer Research Grant McKnight Foundation 2006 W. Edward and Kay M. Hastings Graduate Scholarship Penn State 2000
FASB Ph.D. Program FASB 2000
Edward & Susan Wilson Graduate Scholarship in Business Penn State 1999
AAA Doctoral Consortium Fellow AAA 1999
Big 10 Doctoral Consortium (Northwestern Univ.) Big 10 1998 Doctoral Internationalization Consortium in Accounting CIBER 1998 G. Kenneth Nelson Graduate Fellowship Penn State 1997 - 2000 Executive Education Doctoral Fellowship Penn State 1996 - 1999 All India Merit List – 15TH rank -Final ICWAI 1987 All India Merit List – 44TH rank -Final ICAI 1987 All India Merit List – 26TH rank -Inter ICAI 1985 PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE
ACADEMIC
Univerity of Minnesota
Carlson School of Management
Assistant Professor of Accounting Spring ‘02 – Spring ‘07
Teaching Specialist Fall ‘01
Pennsylvania State University Research Assistant
Prof. Bin Ke Fall ’00 – Spring ‘01
Prof. Orie E. Barron Fall ’98 – Spring ‘00
Prof. James C. McKeown & Prof. Jane F. Mutchler Fall ’97 - Spring ‘98
Teaching Assistant Fall ’96 – Spring’97
Graduate Lecturer Summers of 1997 - 2000
PROFESSIONAL
Sun Clutches India Pvt. Ltd. Project Manager June 1995 – July 1996 Madras, India.
Middle East Switchgear Industries Finance Manager Jan. 1993 – June 1995 Ltd., Sharjah, U.A.E.
Sridhar & Santhanam Partner Oct. 1991 – Sep. 1992 Chartered Accountants
Madras, India. Audit Manager/Associate Oct. 1987 – Sep. 1991 Trainee under CA rules July 1984 – Sep. 1987
