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Degrees

PhD, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2002

MBA, S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Bombay, India, 1995

BE, Mechanical Engineering, Gujarat University, India, 1991

Joined UIC in 2008

Teaching and Research Interests

Teaching: Managerial Accounting; Financial Accounting

Research: Performance measurement, cost behavior, earnings management

Honors / Awards

AAA Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2000.

Outstanding Ph.D. Student Instructor, The University of Texas at Dallas, 1998-99.

Merit-based assistantship, The University of Texas at Dallas, 1998-2001.

Positions Held

Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School, 2001-2008.

Instructor, The University of Texas at Dallas, 1998-2001.

Representative publications

"The Use of Advertising Activities to Meet Earnings Benchmarks: Evidence from Monthly Data," Review of Accounting Studies, 2009, Forthcoming (with D. Cohen and T. Zach).

"Simultaneity in the Relationship between Sales Performance and Components of Customer Satisfaction," Journal of Consumer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction, and Complaining Behavior, 2009, Forthcoming (with R.D. Banker).

"The Moderating Role of Competition in the Relationship between Nonfinancial Measures and Financial Performance," Contemporary Accounting Research, Fall 2007 (with R. Banker).

" Was The Bell System a Natural Monopoly? An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis," Annals of Operations Research, July 2006 (with H. Chang).

"Relative Efficiency as a Lead Indicator of Operating Income," (in Spanish). Latin American Journal of Accounting & Management, Fall 2006 (with C. Abad and R.D. Banker)..