Faculty Experts

We are honored and proud to have a fine group of researchers and faculty members at the University of Notre Dame. Faculty Experts include:

Auditing & Assurance Services: David Ricchiute | Sandra Vera-Muñoz | Jeremy Griffin

Corporate Governance: Jeffrey Burks | Thomas Frecka

Cost : Kenneth Milani | Michael Morris | Sandra Vera-Muñoz

Decision-Making Information :Sandra Vera-Muñoz

Earnings Management: Brad Badertscher

Financial : Brad Badertscher | Jeffrey Burks | Thomas Frecka |Stephannie Larocque | Chao-Shin Liu | Jeffrey Miller | Fred Mittelstaedt | William Nichols |Ramachandran Ramanan | Juan Rivera | Thomas Stober | Thomas Schaefer

Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation : Peter Easton | Thomas Stober

Forecasting: Stephannie Larocque

Fraud : Thomas Frecka

International Accounting : Juan Rivera

Managerial : Kenneth Milani | Michael Morris | Ramachandran Ramanan | Juan Rivera | Sandra Vera-Muñoz

Taxes : Kenneth Milani | Kevin Misiewicz | Jim Seida | James Wittenbach

Professional Specialist: Jim Fuehrmeyer | Edward Hums | Brian Levy | Tonia Hap Murphy | James O'Brien | Janet O'Tousa | William Schmul

Concurrent Faculty: Michael Favorite | William Kirk

Adjunct: Carolyn Anderson | Adam Braun |Jim Breen | Margot Cleveland | Robert Hames | Jim Krillenberger | Doug Kroll | Jeff McGowan | Peter Sweeney | Joseph Tapajna

Emeriti: John Beverely | Ray Powell | Daniel Simon | Robert Williamson

Thomas Stober
Committee Member, American Accounting Association, Financial Accounting Standards Committee (AAA FASC)
Committee Member, American Accounting Associaton, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section
Financial Reporting Policy Committee (AAA FARS FRPC)

Ramachandran Ramanan
Consulting Editor, Journal of Education for Business

Peter D. Easton, Academic Director, CARE

• Notre Dame Alumni Professor of Accountancy, Mendoza College of Business
• Principal, Navigant Economics
• Contact: peaston@nd.edu
• Current Vita

Professor Easton's expertise in accounting and valuation is widely recognized by the academic research community and by the legal community. Professor Easton has been qualified as an expert witness in the Delaware Chancery Court and he has consulted on valuation issues for investment firms and accounting firms in Australia, the UK, and the USA.

Professor Easton holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia. He holds a graduate degree from the University of New England and a PhD in Business Administration (majoring in accounting and finance) from the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Easton’s research on corporate valuation has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. Professor Easton has served as an Associate Editor for 11 leading accounting journals and is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance. He is an Editor of the Review of Accounting Studies.

Professor Easton has held appointments at the University of Chicago, the University of California at Berkeley, Ohio State University, Macquarie University, the Australian Graduate School of Management, the University of Melbourne, and Nyenrode University. He is a member of the Scientific Council of CentER, Tilburg University and is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in teaching and in research. Professor Easton regularly teaches accounting analysis and security valuation to MBAs.

He, together with John Wilde, Mary Lea McAnally, and Robert Halsey, is author of "Financial Accounting for MBAs," now in its fourth publication; "Financial & Managerial Accounting for MBAs," authored with Robert Halsey, Mary Lea McAnally, Al Hartgraves and Wayne Morse is in its second edition; "Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation," authored with Mary Lea McAnally, Patricia Fairfield, Xiao-Jun Zhang and Robert Halsey is currently in its second edition; and "Estimating the Cost of Capital Implied by Market Prices and Accounting Data," was recently published in Foundations and Trends in Accounting.

 

Current Vita

Lorie Marsh, Program Manager, CARE

Lorie Marsh joined the Center for Accounting Research and Education in January, 2005, and became the Center's Program Managerin September, 2005.

As program manager, Lorie is responsible for Center marketing and primary representation to faculty both inside and outside of Notre Dame and the United States through database creation and manipulation, scheduling conferences and workshops, as well as research assistance.

If you have research or teaching needs that you would like for the Center to address or assist with, please contact Lorie at: lmarsh1@nd.edu or by telephone, at: 574.631.4207.