Associate Professor of Accountancydonal_byard@baruch.cuny.edu Education:| BBS | University of Limerick (Ireland) | Accounting and Finance | 1989 | | MBS | University, College Dublin | Finance | 1991 | | PhD | University of Maryland | Accounting | 1998 |
Areas of Expertise:Financial analysts, analysts' role as information processors in financial markets, intangible assets, corporate disclosure policy, international accounting.
Selected Publications:Earnings surprises that spur analysts to reduce the error in the average forecast (with Orie Barron and Yong Yu). The Accounting Review (Forthcoming). Oil company earnings management in response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita (with Mahmud Hossain and Santanu Mitra). Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (Forthcoming). Corporate governance and the quality of financial analysts’ information (with Joe Weintrop and Ying Li). Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 25(5), 2006: 609-625.
The Interpretive Role of Analysts’ Earnings Forecasts: Why do so Many Analysts Forecast Earnings for Some Firms? (with Orie Barron and Ken Shaw). Investor Relations Quarterly 6(3), October 2004: 7-17. Leveling the Informational Paying Field (with Orie Barron and Charles Enis). Review of Accounting and Finance 3(4), 2004: 21-46. Corporate Disclosure Quality and Properties of Analysts’ Information Environment (with Ken Shaw). Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance 19(3), Summer 2003: 355-378. Changes in Analysts’ Information Around Earnings Announcements (with Orie Barron and Oliver Kim). The Accounting Review 77(4), October 2002: 821-846. High-Technology Intangibles and Analysts’ Forecasts (with Orie Barron, Charles Kile and Edward Riedl). Journal of Accounting Research 40(2), May 2002: 289-312.
Academic Activities:Ad hoc Reviewer, The Accounting Review; Contemporary Accounting Research; The Journal of Accounting, and Public Policy; the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance; the Journal of Business, Finance, and Accounting, the Financial Review; and Review of Finance and Accounting. Faculty advisor, Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA). Member, Dean’s Taskforce on Research, Zicklin School of Business. Member, Review panel for PSC-CUNY awards, CUNY.
Professional Activities:Member, American Accounting Association (AAA); American Finance Association (AFA); European Accounting Association (EAA); and Irish Accounting and Finance Association (IAFA). Ad hoc Reviewer, The Accounting Review; Contemporary Accounting Research; The Journal of Accounting, and Public Policy; and the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance.
Awards, Honors, etc.:President’s List, University of Limerick 1988. Teaching excellence award, Zicklin Business School, 2004.
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