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Ph.D. , Carnegie Mellon University
M. Phil, Carnegie Mellon University.
Post-Graduate Diploma in Management, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India
BS, (First Division Honors in Physics), St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, India
Joined UIC in 1996

Introductory & Intermediate Financial Accounting; Managerial Accounting; Financial Statement Analysis

Best Paper Award for 'Analysis' Selective Coverage and Subsequent Performance of Newly Public Firms' at the 2004 International Finance Conference, National Taiwan University, Dec 2004

Vernon K. Zimmerman Outstanding Paper Award at the 10th Asian-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, Hawaii, October 1998 L. H. Penney Faculty Fellowship, Professional Accounting Program, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Richard King Mellon Doctoral Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University

Assistant Professor, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley.

Analysts' Selective Coverage and Subsequent Performance of Newly Public Firms, (with R. Guo and H. Zhang), forthcoming in Journal of Finance

Stock Market Valuation of Deferred Tax Assets: Evidence from Internet Firms, (with M.P. Bauman), Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Vol. 31 (9& 10), November/December 2004.(Lead article)

Routing-Up in Reported EPS, Earnings Management, and Behavioral Thresholds, (with H. Zhang), Journal of Accounting & Economics, Vol. 35 (1), April 2003arnings Predictability and Bias in Analysts' Earnings Forecasts, (with C. Levine and K. Sivaramakrishnan), The Accounting Review, Vol. 73 (2), April 1998

Impact of Strategic Alliances on Firm Valuation, (with P. K. Sen and S. Sengupta), The Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 41 (1), February 1998

A Re-examination of Financial Analysts' Differential Earnings Forecast Accuracy, (with L. D. Brown and P. Sinha), Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 14 (1), Spring 1997

Nonlinearity in the Returns-Earnings Relation: Tests of Alternative Specifications and Explanations (with B. Lev), Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 11 (1), Fall 1994

Complementarity of Prior Accounting Information: The Case of Stock Dividend Announcements (with R. D. Banker and S. M. Datar), The Accounting Review, Vol. 68 (1), January 1993