AFSHAD J. IRANI, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Accounting  Interests: Financial Accounting

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AFSHAD JEEVAN IRANI, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Accounting

Afshad joined the Whittemore School in the fall of 1998.  He received his Bachelor of Arts from The College of Wooster in 1990, and his Ph.D. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting from The Pennsylvania State University in 1998.  He has taught financial accounting at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Afshad’s research interests are in examining management behavior as reflected in activities such as voluntary disclosure, earnings management, insider trading and analyst forecasts.  His current projects involve studying the impact of Regulation Fair Disclosure on information released by management as reflected by analyst forecast accuracy and dispersion and examining insider trading activity around changes in stock exchange listings.

Originally from Karachi, Pakistan, Afshad now lives in Lee with his wife Farishte and his son Kaizad.

PUBLICATIONS:

Determinant of Bias in Management Earnings Forecasts (Accounting Enquiries, Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2000/2001, pp. 33-86)

Management Earnings Forecast Bias and Insider Trading:  Comparison of Distressed and Non-Distressed Firms (Journal of Business and Economic Studies, forthcoming in Spring 2003)

Regulation Fair Disclosure, Analyst Following and Analyst Forecast Dispersion (with Irene Karamanou, University of Cyprus), (Accounting Horizons, Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2003, pp. 15-29)

The Effect of Regulation Fair Disclosure on the Relevance of Conference Calls to Financial Analysts, forthcoming in Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

WORKING PAPERS:

Examining the Effects of Regulation Fair Disclosure on Equity Prices (with Irene Karamanou, University of Cyprus)
Current Status:  First round with Research in Accounting Regulation