Michael Kirschenheiter

       601 S. Morgan St. (M/C 006)
       Chicago, IL 60607
       Phone: 312-996-2284
       Fax     : 312-996-4520
       mkirsche@uic.edu

PhD., Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University 1994
MBA, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1981
MSc in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1980
BA, in Economics, University of Chicago, 1977
Joined UIC in 2007

Teaching:Financial and Managerial Accounting, with emphasis on Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation.
Research: Disclosure Theory, Auditing and Optimal Reporting policy choices by managers from both a valuation perspective and a stewardship perspective.

Winner of the KPMG & UIUC Competitive Manuscrip Competition for Research on Risk Measurement, 2006.
Columbia Business School "Bob Lear Service Award", 1996

Associate Professor, Purdue University, Krannert School of Management, 2004-2007
Assistant & Associate Professor, Columbia University, 1992-2004
Lecturer, Northwestern University, 1989-1992

"A Model of Auditing Under Bright-Line Accounting Standards" , Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, 2004 (with Dennis Caplan)

"Model of Outsourcing and Audit Risk for Internal Audit Services", Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 17, Fall 2000 (with Dennis Caplan)

"Optimal Contracting, Accounting Standards and Market Structure", Contemporary Accounting Research , Volume 16, Summer 1999

"The Aggregation and Valuation of Deferred Taxes", The Review of Accounting Studies, June/September 2001 (with Eli Amir and Kristen Willard)

"The Valuation of Deferred Taxes", Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 14, Winter 1997 (with Eli Amir and Kristen Willard)

"Accounting for Employee Stock Options", Accounting Horizons, 18, June 2004 (with Rohit Mathur and Jacob Thomas)

"Information Quality and Correlated Signals", Journal of Accounting Research, 35, Spring 1997

"Can "Big Bath" and Earnings Smoothing Coexist as Equilibrium Financial Reporting Strategies?", Journal of Accounting Research, 40, June 2002 (with Nahum Melumad)

"Discretionary Risk Disclosures", The Accounting Review, 78, April 2003 (with Bjorn Jorgensen)