Address:
249 Brooks Hall
Athens, GA 30602
Email
Office Phone:
706.542.3501
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Linda Smith Bamber
Tull Professor of Accounting
J.M. Tull School of Accounting [ Website ]
At Terry Since 1990
Education:
| B.S, Wake Forest University, Accounting | | (1975) |
| MBA, Arizona State University, Accounting and Marketing | | (1978) |
| Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Accounting | | (1983) |
Prior Professional Positions:
| Indiana University, Faculty of Accounting, Visiting Associate Professor |
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1989 to
1990 |
| University of Florida, School of Accounting, Assistant and Associate Professor |
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1983 to
1989 |
| R. J. Reynolds, RJR Foods, Management Accountant |
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1975 to
1977 |
Research Interests:
| Trading volume reactions to earnings announcements, Voluntary disclosure, Analysts' earnings forecasts |
Area of Expertise:
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Market reactions to accounting earnings announcements, Voluntary corporate disclosure, Management accounting -- Determining the profitability of products, services, and customers, Peer review publication process
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Awards:
| 2009, Outstanding Educator Award, American Accounting Association |
| 2007, Hugh Nourse MBA Outstanding Teacher Award, Full-Time MBA Class of 2007 |
| 2007, Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, Terry College of Business |
| 2007, James Bulloch Award for Innovation in Accounting Education, American Accounting Association |
| 2007, Lily Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Georgia |
| 2006, Howard Teall Innovation in Accounting Education Award, Canadian Academic Accounting Association |
| 2006, Advisor’s Award for chairing recipient of the Best Dissertation Award, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section |
| 2005, Hugh Nourse MBA Outstanding Teacher Award, Full-Time MBA Class of 2005 |
| 2004, Percy B. Yeargen Undergraduate Teacher of the Year, J.M. Tull School of Accounting |
| 2004, Finalist for MBA Teacher of the Year, Terry College of Business |
| 2001, Outstanding Faculty Research Award, Terry College of Business |
| 1976, Bronze Medal on CPA Exam, North Carolina Society of CPAs |
Editorial Appointments:
| 2008 to 2011, Editorial Board, The Accounting Review |
| 1999 to 2002, Managing Editor, The Accounting Review |
| 1994 to 1997, Associate Editor , Accounting Horizons |
| 1987 to 1999, Editorial Board, The Accounting Review |
Selected Publications:
Books
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Linda Smith Bamber, Karen Braun, and W. Thomas Harrison .
"Managerial Accounting."
Prentice Hall,
(2007),
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Charles Horngren, W. Thomas Harrison, and Linda Bamber .
"Accounting."
Prentice Hall,
Sixth Edition,
(2005),
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Journal Articles
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Linda Bamber, Kai Wai Hui, and Eric Yeung .
"Managers' EPS Forecasts: Nickeling and Diming the Market?"
The Accounting Review,
forthcoming,
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Linda Bamber, John Jiang, Kathy Petroni, and Isabel Wang .
"Comprehensive Income: Who's Afraid of Performance Reporting?"
The Accounting Review,
(January 2010),
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E. Michael Bamber and Linda S. Bamber .
"Discussion of: Mandatory Audit Partner Rotation, Audit Quality, and Market Perceptions: Evidence from Taiwan."
Contemporary Accounting Research,
Vol. 20, No. 2,
(Summer 2009),
pp. 393-402.
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Mark Dawkins, Neil Bhattacharya, and Linda Bamber .
"Systematic Share Price Fluctuations after Bankruptcy Filings and the Investors who Drive Them ."
Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis,
42,
(June 2007),
pp. 399-419.
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E.M. Bamber and L.S. Bamber .
"Using 10-K Reports Brings Management Accounting to Life!"
Issues in Accounting Education,
21,
(2006),
pp. 267-290.
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Linda Bamber, Ted Christensen, and Ken Gaver .
"Do We Really 'Know' What We Think We Know? A Case Study of Seminal Research and its Subsequent Overgeneralization ."
Accounting, Organizations, and Society,
25,
(February 2000),
pp. 103-129.
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Linda Bamber and Youngsoon Cheon .
"Discretionary Management Earnings Forecast Disclosures: Antecedents and Consequences of Forecast Venue and Forecast Specificity Choices ."
Journal of Accounting Research,
(Fall 1998),
pp. 167-190.
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Linda Bamber, Orie Barron, Tom Stober .
"Differential Interpretations and Trading Volume."
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis,
(September 1999),
pp. 369-386.
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Linda Bamber and Youngsoon Cheon .
"Differential Price and Volume Reactions to Accounting Earnings Announcements."
The Accounting Review,
(July 1995),
pp. 417-441.
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Linda Bamber, Orie Barron, Tom Stober .
"Trading Volume and Different Aspects of Disagreement Coincident with Earnings Announcements ."
The Accounting Review,
(October 1997),
pp. 575-597.
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Rowland Atiase and Linda Bamber .
"Trading Volume Reactions to Annual Earnings Announcements: The Incremental Role of Information Asymmetry."
Journal of Accounting and Economics,
(May 1994),
pp. 309-329.
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Linda Bamber .
"Unexpected Earnings, Firm Size, and Trading Volume Around Quarterly Earnings Announcements."
The Accounting Review,
(July 1987),
pp. 510-532.
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Linda Bamber .
"The Information Content of Annual Earnings Announcements: A Trading Volume Approach."
Journal of Accounting Research,
(Spring 1986),
pp. 40-56.
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Mark Dawkins and Linda Bamber .
"Does the Medium Matter? The Relations Among Bankruptcy Petition Filings, Broadtape Disclosure, and the Timing of Price Reactions."
Journal of Finance,
(June 1998),
pp. 1149-1163.
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E. Michael Bamber, Linda Bamber, and Michael Schoderbek .
"Audit Structure and Other Determinants of Audit Report Lag: An Empirical Analysis."
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(Spring 1993),
pp. 1-23.
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Working Papers
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Linda Bamber, Orie Barron, and Doug Stevens .
"Trading Volume around Earnings Announcements and Other Financial Reports: Theory, Research Design, Empirical Evidence, and Directions for Future Research."
Working paper,
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Service:
University
| 2008 to 2008, MBA Director Search Committee, Terry College of Business |
| 2008 to 2008, Outstanding Teaching Award Committee, Terry College of Business |
| 1999 to 2002, University Appeals Committee, University of Georgia |
| 1991 to 2000, Coordinator, Workshop Series, J. M. Tull School of Accounting |
| 1996 to 1997, Dean Search Committee, Terry College of Business |
| 2005 to Present, Faculty Concerns Committee, Terry College of Business |
| 2005 to Present, Terry-Sanford Summer Research Grant Committee, Terry College of Business |
Professional
| 2009 to 2010, Chairman, Competitive Manuscript Award, American Accounting Association |
| 2007 to 2010, Publications Commitee, American Accounting Association |
| 2009 to 2009, Invited Speaker, Doctoral Consortium, American Accounting Association |
| 2007 to 2008, Chairman, Best Paper Award, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section |
| 2005 to 2006, Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Award Committee, American Accounting Association |
| 2005 to 2006, Best Paper Award, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section |
| 1999 to 2005, Invited Speaker, New Faculty Consortium, American Accounting Association |
| 2003 to 2004, Chairman, Competitive Manuscript Award Committee, American Accounting Association |
| 2002 to 2004, Steering and Advisory Board, American Accounting Association Financial Accounting and Reporting Section |
| 1996 to 1998, Research Advisory Committee, American Accounting Association |
| 1996 to 1997, Nominations Committee, American Accounting Association |
| 1995 to 1997, Governing Council, American Accounting Association |
| 1995 to 1996, Chairman, New Faculty Consortium Committee, American Accounting Association |
| 1991 to 1994, New Faculty Consortium Group Leader and Speaker, American Accounting Association |
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