RAMGOPAL VENKATARAMAN 2011 Asst. Professor of Accounting Tel: (214) 768-2547 Cox School of Business 379 Crow 6212 Bishop Boulevard Dallas, TX 75205 e-mail: ramgopal@smu.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University 2001 B.Sc. University of Madras (RKM Vivekananda College), India 1981-1984 PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION FCA The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) 1987 Grad. CWA The Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India (ICWAI) 1987 CURRENT POSITION Cox School of Business Assistant Professor of Accounting Fall 2007 date PUBLICATIONS Litigation Risk, Audit Fees and Audit Quality: Evidence from Initial Public Offerings with Joseph P. Weber (MIT) and Michael Willenborg (University of Connecticut). The Accounting Review 83(5) (2008): 1315-1345 The Determinants of Analyst-Firm Pairings with Lihong Liang (George Washington University) and Edward J. Riedl(Harvard University) Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 27 (2008): 277-294. Causes and Consequences of Goodwill Impairment Losses with Zining Li (SMU), Pervin Shroff, and Ivy Zhang (both at the University of Minnesota). Review of Accounting Studies 16 (2011): 745-778 The Conservatism Principle and the Asymmetric Timeliness of Earnings: An Eventbased Approach (co-authored with Prof. Pervin K. Shroff and Suning Zhang). Contemporary Accounting Research (forthcoming)) WORKING PAPERS Timeliness of Analysts Forecasts: The Informational Role of Follower Analysts (coauthored with Prof. Pervin K. Shroff and Baohua Xin). Being revised for a resubmission to CAR (third round)
R&D Reporting Rule and Firm Efficiency (co-authored with Neil Bhattacharya, Yoshie Saito and Jeff Yu). Submitted to Journal of Accounting Research. Other Unpublished Research SEC-Mandated MD&A Disclosures: News that can have a substantial effect on stock prices (co-authored with Prof. Orie E. Barron and Prof. Charles Kile).. The Impact of SFAS 131 on Financial Analysts Information Environment WORK IN PROGRESS Financial Analyst Responses to Competition in the Information Market (with Jae Bum Kim, doctoral student, University of Minnesota Diffusion of Misconduct in Financial Reporting (with Swami Kalpathy and Wendy Wilson, both at SMU) The Role of Information Intermediaries in Intangible Intensive Industries (with Neil Bhattacharya and Jeff Yu) ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS 11 th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, University of Michigan, 2000 Penn State University, 2000 Columbia University, 2001 University of Michigan, 2001 Michigan State University, 2001 University of California, Berkeley, 2001 University of Iowa, 2001 Washington University at St. Louis, 2001 New York University, 2001 London Business School, 2001 University of Minnesota 2001 University of Minnesota 2002 University of Minnesota mini-conference on Empirical Accounting Research, 2002 Baruch College, CUNY, 2003 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, AAA, Annual Mid-year Meeting, 2003 George Washington University, 2003 University of Minnesota mini-conference on Empirical Accounting Research, 2003 14 th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, Indiana University, 2003 American Accounting Association, Annual Meeting, 2004 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2005
National University of Singapore, 2005 University of Minnesota mini-conference on Empirical Accounting Research, 2005 Penn State Accounting Research Colloquium, 2005 16 th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, Univ. of North Carolina, 2005 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, AAA, Annual Mid-year Meeting, 2006 The Ohio State University, 2006, 2006 Baruch College, City University of New York, 2006 The University of Texas at Dallas, 2007 Indian School of Business Accounting Research Conference, 2007 Texas Christian University, Lone Star Research Conference, 2011 INVITED CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE Washington University of St. Louis Accounting Conference, 2005 Accounting Foundations Conference, Emory University, 2006 Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation Conference, 2006 University of Minnesota conference on empirical accounting research, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Asia Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics Conference, 2011 Contemporary Accounting Research Conference, 2011 OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Ad-hoc Reviewer The Accounting Review Contemporary Accounting Research Management Science Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance Journal of Accounting and Public Policy Accounting Horizons Review of Accounting Studies Accounting and Business Research, 2010 The International Conference of Information Systems, 2002 AAA Annual Meeting, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009. 2010, 2011 The Journal of International Business Studies, 2003 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Meeting, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2011. Information Systems Research, 2005 and 2006 Others Dr. K Nirmala Prasad Endowment Lecture at The Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai, India, 2007. Discussant, AAA Annual Meeting 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Discussant, Indian School of Business Accounting Research Conference, 2007 Discussant, FARS mid-year Meeting, 2008, 2010, 2011 Moderator, AAA Annual Meeting, 2005 Moderator, FARS mid-year Meeting, 2010 Member, Best Dissertation Committee, FAR Section of the AAA, 2004-2005. SERVICE ON MASTERS AND DOCTORAL COMMITTEES Haiwen Zhang, Ph.D. Accounting (placed at Ohio State University, 2006) Suning Zhang, Ph.D. Accounting (placed at George Mason University, 2006) Zining Li, Ph.D. Accounting (placed at, 2007) Timothy Shields, Ph.D. Accounting. (placed at Chapman University, 2008) Dawn Sargent, M.S. Statistics Alexander Nekrasov, Ph.D. Accounting (Placed at UC Irvine, 2008) Stephanie Dehning-Grimm, Ph.D. Accounting (placed at University of St. Thomas, 2009) Current committee membership Lakshmana Kumar Krishna-Moorthy, Ph.D. Accounting (University of Minnesota) TEACHING: Undergraduate ACCT 2312: Foundations of Accounting II University of Minnesota ACCT 3001: Introduction to Managerial Accounting MBA ACCT 6205: Managerial Accounting EMBA: Accounting 6303: Managerial Accounting University of Minnesota Evening MBA Core MBA 6035: Managerial Accounting MBA Elective ACCT 6320: Advanced Managerial Accounting This is a course that I designed and developed at the request of the MBA program Executive MBA: Managerial Accounting (China Program) Ph.D. Empirical Accounting Research Seminar 1: Co-taught with Prof. Pervin Shroff (2005) Empirical Accounting Research Seminar II: Co-taught with Prof. Ivy Zhang (2006)
DISTINCTIONS & AWARDS Award Awarded by Year McKnight Summer Research Grant McKnight Foundation 2006 W. Edward and Kay M. Hastings Graduate Scholarship Penn State 2000 FASB Ph.D. Program FASB 2000 Edward & Susan Wilson Graduate Scholarship in Business Penn State 1999 AAA Doctoral Consortium Fellow AAA 1999 Big 10 Doctoral Consortium (Northwestern Univ.) Big 10 1998 Doctoral Internationalization Consortium in Accounting CIBER 1998 G. Kenneth Nelson Graduate Fellowship Penn State 1997-2000 Executive Education Doctoral Fellowship Penn State 1996-1999 All India Merit List 15 TH rank -Final ICWAI 1987 All India Merit List 44 TH rank -Final ICAI 1987 All India Merit List 26 TH rank -Inter ICAI 1985 PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE ACADEMIC Univerity of Minnesota Carlson School of Management Assistant Professor of Accounting Spring 02 Spring 07 Teaching Specialist Fall 01 Pennsylvania State University Research Assistant Prof. Bin Ke Fall 00 Spring 01 Prof. Orie E. Barron Fall 98 Spring 00 Prof. James C. McKeown & Prof. Jane F. Mutchler Fall 97 - Spring 98 Teaching Assistant Fall 96 Spring 97 Graduate Lecturer Summers of 1997-2000 PROFESSIONAL Sun Clutches India Pvt. Ltd. Project Manager June 1995 July 1996 Madras, India. Middle East Switchgear Industries Finance Manager Jan. 1993 June 1995 Ltd., Sharjah, U.A.E. Sridhar & Santhanam Partner Oct. 1991 Sep. 1992 Chartered Accountants Madras, India. Audit Manager/Associate Oct. 1987 Sep. 1991 Trainee under CA rules July 1984 Sep. 1987