601 S. Morgan St. (M/C 006)
      Chicago, IL 60607
      Phone: 312-996-2529
      Fax : 312-996-4520
       rajm@uic.edu

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 Impact of a Heterogeneous Accrual-generating Process on Empirical Accrual Models," Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Forthcoming (with N. Dopuch, C. Seethamraju, and T. Zach).

"The Use of Advertising Activities to Meet Earnings Benchmarks: Evidence from Monthly Data," Review of Accounting Studies, December 2010 (with D. Cohen and T. Zach).

"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).