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Sunil Dutta

Joan and Egon von Kaschnitz Distinguished Associate Professor of Accounting and International Business
Co-Chair, Haas Accounting Group
1-510-643-1229
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Academic Status: On sabbatical
Office Hours: By Appointment, F479
Personal Homepage:
Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/accounting
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

BS, engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India
MS, applied chemistry, University of Minnesota
MBA, accounting, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
Ph.D., business administration, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

Positions Held

At Haas since 1996
2002 - present Egon and Joan von Kaschnitz Distinguished Associate Professor of Accounting and International Business, Walter A. Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1996 - 2002 Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1994 - 96 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia

External Service and Assignments

Editorial Boards: The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies
Reviewer: The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, European Journal of Operations Research, California Management Review
Moderator, 8th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Annual Financial Reporting Conferences
Affiliations: American Accounting Association, American Finance Association, The Society for Financial Studies, Canadian Academic Accounting Association.

Current Research and Interests

Accrual accounting information and managerial performance measures.
Firms' disclosure policies and their valuation in capital markets.

Selected Papers and Publications

"Leading Indicator Variables, Performance Measurement and Long-Term versus Short-Term Contracts" with S. Reichelstein, Journal of Accounting Research, 41(3), 2003
"Capital Budgeting and Managerial Compensation: Incentive and Retention Effects," The Accounting Review, 78(1), 2003
"Revenue Recognition in a Multiperiod Agency Setting" (with Xiao-Jun Zhang), Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 40, No. 1, March, 2002
"The Effects of Voluntary Earnings Forecasts on Earnings Management" (with Frank Gigler), Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 40 (3), 2002
"The Interpretation of Information and Corporate Disclosure Strategies" (with B. Trueman), Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2002
"Controlling Investment Decisions: Depreciation- and Capital Charges" (with Stefan Reichelstein), Review of Accounting Studies Vol. 7, No. 1, 2002

Teaching

MBA 202, Financial Reporting, Fall 2002
E 202A, Financial Reporting, Spring 2002
BA 229C, Doctoral Seminar in Financial Accounting, Fall 2002

Honors and Awards

Best Paper Award of the 2001 Review of Accounting Studies Conference
Best paper award of the 1999 Review of Accounting Studies conference
Schwabacher Fellowship, 1998-99
Club 6 (high teaching ratings), Haas School, recognized six times (1996-2003)
Junior Faculty Research Grant, UC Berkeley, 1996
Research Grant, Canadian Academic Accounting Association

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