JEFFREY HALES 800 West Peachtree Street, NW Georgia Institute of Technology jeffrey.hales@mgt.gatech.edu Atlanta, Georgia 30308 College of Management (404) 894-3897 FACULTY AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology 2011 Present Research Fellow, Financial Accounting Standards Board 2009 2010 Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology 2008 2011 Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin 2003 2008 Instructor, University of Texas at Austin 2002 2003 EDUCATION Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University Doctorate of Philosophy in Management (Social Psychology, Behavioral Science minors), 2003 Master of Science, 2002 Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University Master of Accountancy, 1997 Bachelor of Science (Accounting), 1997 PUBLICATIONS 1. Hales, Venkataraman, and Wilks. Accounting for lease renewal options: The informational effects of unit of account choices, The Accounting Review, forthcoming. 2. Clement, M. B., Hales, J., and Y. Xue. 2011. Understanding analysts use of stock returns and other analysts revisions when forecasting earnings. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 51 (3): 279-299. 3. Hales, J., Kuang, X., and S. Venkataraman. 2011. Who believes the hype? An experimental investigation of how language affects investor judgments. Journal of Accounting Research, 49 (1): 223-255. 4. Hales, J., and M. Williamson. 2010. Implicit employment contracts: The limits of management reputation for promoting firm productivity. Journal of Accounting Research, 48 (1): 147-176. 5. Bloomfield, R. and J. Hales. 2009. An experimental investigation of the positive and negative effects of mutual observation. The Accounting Review, 84 (2): 331-354. 6. Bowlin, K. O., Hales, J., and S. J. Kachelmeier. 2009. Experimental evidence of how prior experience as an auditor influences managers strategic reporting decisions. Review of Accounting Studies, 14: 63-87. 7. Hales, J. 2009. Are investors really willing to agree to disagree? An experimental investigation of how disagreement and attention to disagreement affect trading behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 108: 230-241.
8. Hales, J., and S. Kachelmeier. 2008. Predicting relative performance in economic competition. Journal of Behavioral Finance, 9: 187-192. 9. Hales, J. 2007. Directional preferences, information processing, and investors forecasts of earnings. Journal of Accounting Research, 45 (3): 607-628. 10. Bloomfield, R., and J. Hales. 2002. Predicting the next step of a random walk: Experimental evidence of regime-shifting beliefs. Journal of Financial Economics, 65 (3): 397-414. Reprinted in W. DeBondt (Ed.). (2005) The Psychology of World Equity Markets. International Library of Critical Writings in Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 11. Nelson, M.W., Bloomfield, R., Hales, J., and R. Libby. 2001. The effect of information strength and weight on behavior in financial markets. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 86 (2): 168-196. RESEARCH PAPERS The Dark Side of Socially Mediated Rewards: How Social Status and Narcissism Affect Managerial Reporting (with Jessen Hobson and Bob Resutek) A Review of Academic Research on Statement of Cash Flow Reporting and Presentation Effects (with Steven Orpurt) WORK IN PROGRESS The Decision Usefulness of Expected Value vs. Most Likely Estimates (with Shankar Venkataraman and T. Jeffrey Wilks) Dancing in the Spotlight: Does Transparency Always Reduce Earnings Management? (with Bart Diernyck) SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS 2011: BYU Accounting Symposium (Panelist, Provo, UT); Cornell University; Pennsylvania State University; AAA Annual Meeting (Panelist, Denver, CO); SESARC (Atlanta, GA); Federation of Schools of Accountancy Faculty Consortium (Chicago, IL); University of Mississippi; Boston Accounting Research Colloquium (Boston, MA) 2010: University of Miami Behavioral Finance Conference (Miami, FL); University of South Carolina; Emory University; Simon Fraser University; IAREP/SABE/ICABEEP 2010 Annual Meeting (Cologne, Germany); AAA Annual Meeting (Panelist, San Francisco, CA); University of Oklahoma s Decision Making Conference (Norman, OK); Michigan Association of CPAs Spring Members Advisory Symposium (Lansing, MI); UAS Annual Accounting Symposium (Montclair, NJ); AAA Southeast Regional Meeting (Plenary Speaker, Mobile, AL); Florida State University (Accounting; xs/fs Experimental Economics Group); APLG/FSA Annual Meeting (Plenary Speaker, Albuquerque, NM); American University; Michigan Association of CPAs Board Meeting (Detroit, MI); FARS Midyear Meeting (Plenary Session Panelist, San Diego, CA) 2
2009: AAA Northeast Regional Meeting (Luncheon Speaker, Panelist, Boston, MA); Michigan Accountancy Foundation (Detroit, MI); AAA Annual Meeting (NYC, NY); FASRI Round Table Discussion (FASB); ATA Midyear Meeting (Panelist, Orlando, FL); FARS Midyear Meeting (New Orleans, LA) 2008: AAA Annual Meeting (Anaheim, CA); Texas Tech University; University of Utah; FARS Midyear Meeting (Phoenix, AZ); Georgia Institute of Technology; MAS Midyear Meeting (Long Beach, CA) 2007: University of Alberta; Northwestern University; AAA Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL); Nanyang Technological University; HKUST Summer Symposium on Accounting Research; Washington University in St. Louis 2006: Economic Science Association North American Meeting (Tucson, AZ); AAA Annual Meeting (Washington DC); Accounting & Finance Mini-Conference (Austin, TX); Lone Star Accounting Research Conference (College Station, TX); University of Pittsburgh 2005: Western Finance Association Annual Meeting (Portland, OR); Economic Science Association North American Meeting (Tucson, AZ) 2004: PAC 10 Doctoral Consortium (Panelist, University of Oregon); AAA Southwest Doctoral Consortium (Panelist, San Antonio, TX); Economic Science Association North American Meeting (Tucson, AZ); Case Western Reserve University; Georgia State University 2003: AAA Annual Meeting (Honolulu, HI) 2002: Yale University Accounting Conference; University of Texas at Austin; Washington University in St. Louis; University of Washington; Emory University; University of Illinois; University of Iowa; Michigan State University; University of Minnesota OTHER CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES FASB/IASB Financial Reporting Issues Conference Norwalk, CT, 2010 FASB/IASB Financial Reporting Issues Conference Norwalk, CT, 2009 Contemporary Accounting Research Conference Quebec City, Canada 2008 AAA/FASB/IASB Financial Reporting Issues Conference Norwalk, CT, 2008 FASB Faculty Program Norwalk, CT, 2005 American Accounting Association New Faculty Consortium Leesburg, VA, 2003 American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Lake Tahoe, CA, 2000 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Georgia Institute of Technology Financial Reporting and Analysis I 2008 - Present Seminar on Policy-Oriented Research in Accounting 2010 University of Texas at Austin Financial Accounting Concepts and Research 2002-2007 3
Cornell University Introductory Financial Accounting Brigham Young University Principals of Accounting II 2001 1997 PH.D. STUDENT SERVICE Dissertation Chair Charlene Geisler - The University of Texas at Austin (2004) (co-chaired with Steve Kachelmeier) Dissertation Committee Member Jessen Law Hobson - The University of Texas at Austin (2006) Kendall Bowlin - The University of Texas at Austin (2008) Jin Xu - The University of Texas at Austin, Finance (2008) Ong-Ard Singtokul - Georgia Institute of Technology (2010) Reading Committee Membership Hui (Helen) Xu - Georgia Institute of Technology (Second year paper) Joseph Johnson Georgia Institute of Technology (First year paper) Lori Shefchik - Georgia Institute of Technology (First year paper) PEER REVIEW AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Editorial Board Member The Accounting Review (2008 present) Contemporary Accounting Research (2010 present) European Accounting Review (Effective Jan. 1, 2012) Financial Accounting Standards Research Initiative (2009 present) Ad Hoc Reviewer Accounting Horizons Accounting, Organizations and Society Journal of Accounting & Economics Journal of Accounting and Public Policy Journal of Accounting Research Journal of Economic Psychology Journal of Finance Journal of Management Accounting Research Journal of Public Economics Management Science Review of Economics and Statistics Review of Finance Review of Financial Studies Conference Reviews Contemporary Accounting Research Conference American Accounting Association Annual Meeting Accounting, Behavior and Organizations Research Conference 4
Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Midyear Meeting Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting Committee Member Institute Admission Appeals Committee, Georgia Tech (2010 present) Executive MBA Task Force, Georgia Tech (2011) Regulations Committee, American Accounting Association (2010 2011) 2011 ABO Midyear Meeting, Assistant Coordinator 2011 ABO Dissertation Award Committee 2011 FASB/IASB Financial Reporting Issues Conference Planning Committee 2012 New Faculty Consortium, American Accounting Association 2012 ABO Midyear Meeting, Program Chair 5 Updated: Sep-11