Accounting and Information Systems Program
MICHAEL DAVIS, Ph.D., CPA Professor, Accounting & Information Systems Program, School of Management University of Alaska Fairbanks 225E Bunnell Hall, PO Box 756080, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6080 Office: 907 474-5872; FAX: 907 474-5767; Cell: 907 978-2094 Email – mldavis@alaska.edu
TEACHING INTERESTS, RESEARCH INTERESTS Primary teaching interests – graduate or undergraduate – focus on financial, intermediate, advanced, financial statement analysis and accounting theory Research concentrates primarily on contentious merger and acquisition issues and troublesome financial reporting topics PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW
Professor of Accounting, Accounting & Information Systems Program, University of Alaska, Fairbanks (2004-current; Director, 2006-2009); Wuhan University, China (2002-2009), Pepperdine University (1997-2004); Lehigh University (1984-97); Swinburne University of Technology (Australia, Fall 1991 while on sabbatical) Faculty Fellow, Financial Accounting Standards Board (1996-97) KPMG Research/Faculty Fellow (1988-93; one of ten selected nationally) Over twenty referred publications, including The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accountancy and Journal of Managerial Issues Ph.D., University of Massachusetts; MBA, Wharton School Auditor with Touche Ross & Co (1975-77), Ernst & Ernst (1974-75)
EDUCATION
School of Business Administration, University of Massachusetts
* Ph.D. in Business, 1986 * Major: Accounting. Minor: Information Systems * Dissertation: “An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Merger Accounting Method on Stock Prices.” The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
* MBA, concentration in Finance and Insurance, 1979 Selected competitively to study one semester at London Graduate School of Business, England Awarded teaching fellowship in Accounting School of Business, California State
TEACHING INTERESTS, RESEARCH INTERESTS Primary teaching interests – graduate or undergraduate – focus on financial, intermediate, advanced, financial statement analysis and accounting theory Research concentrates primarily on contentious merger and acquisition issues and troublesome financial reporting topics PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW
Professor of Accounting, Accounting & Information Systems Program, University of Alaska, Fairbanks (2004-current; Director, 2006-2009); Wuhan University, China (2002-2009), Pepperdine University (1997-2004); Lehigh University (1984-97); Swinburne University of Technology (Australia, Fall 1991 while on sabbatical) Faculty Fellow, Financial Accounting Standards Board (1996-97) KPMG Research/Faculty Fellow (1988-93; one of ten selected nationally) Over twenty referred publications, including The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accountancy and Journal of Managerial Issues Ph.D., University of Massachusetts; MBA, Wharton School Auditor with Touche Ross & Co (1975-77), Ernst & Ernst (1974-75)
EDUCATION
School of Business Administration, University of Massachusetts
* Ph.D. in Business, 1986 * Major: Accounting. Minor: Information Systems * Dissertation: “An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Merger Accounting Method on Stock Prices.” The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
* MBA, concentration in Finance and Insurance, 1979 Selected competitively to study one semester at London Graduate School of Business, England Awarded teaching fellowship in Accounting School of Business, California State
References: teaching evaluations and full list of service activities available upon request. October 2010