EDUCATION
- Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1998
- M Com, University of Witwatersrand, 1995
- B Com (Hons) in Accounting (first class), University of the Witwatersrand, 1988
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
- Chartered Accountant, South Africa, 1995—present
- Member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
- Dartmouth College, Associate Dean for the MBA Program, July 2013–2015
- Dartmouth College, Professor of Accounting, June 2011–present
- Dartmouth College, Associate Professor of Business Administration (with tenure), July 2006–June 2011
- Dartmouth College, Associate Professor of Business Administration, July 2003–June 2006
- University of Pennsylvania, Harold Stott Term Assistant Professor of Accounting, July 2000–June 2003
- University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor of Accounting, July 1997–June 2000
- Pennsylvania State University, Doctoral student, graduate teaching and research assistant, August 1991–June 1997
- Ernst & Young, Johannesburg, Assistant audit manager (final position) January 1989–July 1991
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South African Institute of Chartered Accountants academic articles of clerkship / Temporary junior lecturer, January 1988–December 1988
DIRECTORSHIPS
- West Central Behavioral Health -- Director and Member of Finance Committee: 2011–present
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
- Co-Editor: The Accounting Review June 2011–present
- Editorial Board:
The Accounting Review: 2005–2011
Review of Accounting Studies: 2003–2013
- Reviewer for the National Science Foundation
- Reviewer for: American Economic Review; The Accounting Review; Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory; Contemporary Accounting Research; Economic Journal; The European Accounting Review; Journal of Accounting & Economics; Journal of Accounting Research; Journal of Economics and Management Strategy; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of the European Economic Association; Journal of Finance; Games and Economic Behavior; Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization; Management Science; RAND Journal of Economics; Review of Accounting Studies; Review of Economic Studies; Review of Financial Studies
- Reviewer for: American Accounting Association annual meetings: 1999–2010
American Accounting Association – management accounting section: 2002
American Accounting Association – audit section mid-year meeting: 2004
American Accounting Association – financial reporting section mid-year meeting: 2005, 2006, 2008
- American Accounting Association:
Financial Valuation Task Force member, 2008-9
Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award Screening Committee member, 2006-7
Competitive Manuscript Award Committee member, 2004-5
Research Advisory Committee member, 2002-3, 2003-4
Doctoral Consortium Committee member, 2001-2
Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award Screening Committee member, 2001-2
- Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association:
FARS Nominating Committee, 2013-4
2010 Annual meetings FARS paper selection committee
Financial Reporting Policy Committee, 2007-8, 2008-9, 2009-10, 2010-2011
Best Paper Award Committee, 2007-8
Best Dissertation Award committee, 2006-7
2007 Annual meetings FARS paper selection committee
2006 Mid-year meeting research session selection team member
Steering Board member, 2001-3, 2004-6
Best Paper Award Committee chairperson, 2003-4
- Financial Accounting Standards Board/ International Accounting Standards Board - Financial Reporting Issues Conference 2004-2014
Planning Committee for 2009 FASB/IASB Financial Reporting Issues Conference
Breakout group discussion leader, December 2005, December 2008, December 2010, January 2014
Breakout group discussion leader and panelist, December 2004
- Grader for 1991 Final Qualifying Board Examination - South African Public Accountants’ and Auditors’ Board
OTHER SERVICE
Dartmouth College
- Tuck Executive Committee (elected by the faculty): 2007-8; 2011-12; 2013-14
- Tuck Admissions Committee: 2012-14 (Chair)
- Tuck MBA Program Task Force: 2012-13
- Tuck Educational Experience Task Force: 2012 (Chair)
- Tuck Curriculum Committee: 2004-5; 2008-9; 2010-11; 2013-14
- Dartmouth College President Preliminary Search Committee - Tuck representative: April 2008
- Tuck Core Curriculum Committee: 2007-8
- Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship - Private Equity Leadership Summit conference committee, panel moderator, and panel member, June 2007
- Dartmouth LEAD program presentation: July 2007, July 2008, July 2009, June 2010, June 2011, July 2012, July 2013
- Tuck strategy monitoring committee: 2005-6; 2006-7; 2007-8; 2012-2014
- Thayer School Masters in Engineering Management (MEM) projects review board: 2005, 2009
- Accounting tenure track position search committee: 2003/4, 4/5, 5/6, 6/7, 7/8, 8/9, 9/10, 10/11, 11/12, 12/13, 13/14
University of Pennsylvania
- Ph.D. Dissertation Committee member:
Jonathan Rogers, 2003-2005 (initial appointment – University of Chicago)
Ricardo Reis, 2003-2005 (initial appointment – Catholic University of Lisbon)
- Ph.D. Summer Paper Supervisor: Ricardo Reis, 2000; Jonathan Rogers, 2001
- Presentation to Beta Alpha Psi Accounting Fraternity, February 2000
- Reviewed application material for:
Position of assistant professor in accounting – February 2000, January 2002
Admission to the accounting doctoral program – April 1999, February 2001
- Member of Research Programs Policy Committee, 1999-2000
GRANTS
- Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Grant - May 2001, June 2002
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Jack Byrne Professor of Accounting, 2017
- Tuck Class of 2011 Award for Teaching Excellence, June 2011. (Inaugural teaching award at Tuck)
- Co-Editor: The Accounting Review (effective June 1, 2011)
- Wharton School Graduate Division Miller-Sherrerd MBA Core Teaching Award, April 2003
- Paper titled “Credibility of Management Forecasts” awarded Geewax, Terker & Company second prize in investment research for 2002
- Distinguished Resident Faculty at 2002 American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium
- Wharton School Graduate Division Miller-Sherrerd MBA Core Teaching Award, April 2002
- Wharton Graduate Association Teaching Award, fall 2001
- Wharton Graduate Association MBA Core Curriculum Teaching Award, fall 2000
- University of Pennsylvania: awarded the Harold Stott Term Assistant Professorship; effective July 1, 2000
- Wharton Graduate Association MBA Core Curriculum Teaching Award, fall 1999
- American Accounting Association Representative to the European Accounting Association's Doctoral Consortium in April 1997
- Deloitte & Touche Doctoral Fellowship for 1996-7
- 1996 American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Representative
- 1995 Big Ten Doctoral Consortium Representative
- G. Kenneth Nelson Graduate Fellowship awarded for 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996
- G. H. R. Edmunds Memorial Fellowship awarded in 1991 by the University of the Witwatersrand for travel to the U.S.A.
- Scholarship for Part-time study for a Master's Degree granted by the Human Science Research Council for 1988-9
- Book Prize awarded by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants for achieving sixth place in the 1988 Public Accountants' and Auditors' Board Examination
- Awarded the following prizes by the University of the Witwatersrand in 1988:
Chartered Accountant's Prize for the most outstanding student in the degree of Bachelor of Accountancy or Bachelor of Commerce with Honors in Accounting
- Prizes or certificates received for: obtaining a first class pass in Financial Accounting; obtaining the highest marks in Auditing; and outstanding work in Managerial Accounting
- Placed third in 1988 South African Yacht Racing Association National Championship – Halcat Catamaran class
- Chief Scout's Award received in 1983 from the Boy Scout Association of South Africa for Service to community, Boy Scout movement, and personal achievement