Linda Smith Bamber

Professor Emeritus
- Email Address
- Worklbamber@uga.edu
Education
PhD, Accounting, The Ohio State University, 1983
MBA, Accounting and Marketing, Arizona State University, 1978
BS, Accounting, Wake Forest University, 1975
Prior Professional Positions
Indiana University, Faculty of Accounting, Visiting Associate Professor, 1989 to 1990
University of Florida, School of Accounting, Assistant and Associate Professor, 1983 to 1989
R. J. Reynolds, RJR Foods, Management Accountant, 1975 to 1977
Awards
Outstanding Educator Award, American Accounting Association, 2009
Hugh Nourse MBA Outstanding Teacher Award, Full-Time MBA Class of 2007, 2007
Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, 2007
James Bulloch Award for Innovation in Accounting Education, American Accounting Association, 2007
Lily Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Georgia, 2007
Advisor’s Award for chairing recipient of the Best Dissertation Award, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, 2006
Howard Teall Innovation in Accounting Education Award, Canadian Academic Accounting, Association, 2006
Hugh Nourse MBA Outstanding Teacher Award, Full-Time MBA Class of 2005, 2005
Percy B. Yeargen Undergraduate Teacher of the Year, University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, J.M. Tull School of Accounting, 2004
Finalist for MBA Teacher of the Year, University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, 2004
Outstanding Faculty Research Award, University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, 2001
Bronze Medal on CPA Exam, North Carolina Society of CPAs, 1976
Service
University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, MBA Director Search Committee, 2008 – 2008, University
University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, Outstanding Teaching Award Committee, 2008 – 2008, University
University of Georgia, University Appeals Committee, 1999 – 2002, University
University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, J.M. Tull School of Accounting, Coordinator, Workshop Series, 1991 – 2000, University
University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, Dean Search Committee, 1996 – 1997, University
University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, Faculty Concerns Committee, 2005 – present, University
University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, Terry-Sanford Summer Research Grant, Committee, 2005 – present, University
American Accounting Association, Chairman, Competitive Manuscript Award, 2009 – 2010, Professional
American Accounting Association, Publications Committee, 2007 – 2010, Professional
American Accounting Association, Invited Speaker, Doctoral Consortium, 2009 – 2009, Professional
Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, Chairman, Best Paper Award, 2007 – 2008, Professional
American Accounting Association, Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Award, Committee, 2005 – 2006, Professional
Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, Best Paper Award, 2005 – 2006, Professional
American Accounting Association, Invited Speaker, New Faculty Consortium, 1999 – 2005, Professional
American Accounting Association, Chairman, Competitive Manuscript Award, Committee, 2003 – 2004, Professional
American Accounting Association Financial Accounting and Rep, Steering and Advisory Board, 2002 – 2004, Professional
American Accounting Association, Research Advisory Committee, 1996 – 1998, Professional
American Accounting Association, Nominations Committee, 1996 – 1997, Professional
American Accounting Association, Governing Council, 1995 – 1997, Professional
American Accounting Association, Chairman, New Faculty Consortium Committee, 1995 – 1996, Professional
American Accounting Association, New Faculty Consortium Group Leader and Speaker, 1991 – 1994, Professional
Areas of Expertise
- Management accounting -- Determining the profitability of products, services, and customers
- Market reactions to accounting earnings announcements
- Voluntary corporate disclosure
- Peer review publication process
Research Interests
- Voluntary Disclosure
- Analysts' earnings forecasts
- Trading volume reactions to earnings announcements
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
- 2010. What's My Style? The Influence of Top Managers on Voluntary Corporate Financial Disclosure. The Accounting Review, (85):1131-1162.
- 2010. Managers' EPS Forecasts: Nickeling and Diming the Market?. The Accounting Review, (85):63-95.
- 2010.Comprehensive Income: Who's Afraid of Performance Reporting?.The Accounting Review, (85):97-126.
- 2009. Discussion of: Mandatory Audit Partner Rotation, Audit Quality, and Market Perceptions: Evidence from Taiwan. Contemporary Accounting Research, ( Vol. 20, No. 2):393-402.
- 2007.Systematic Share Price Fluctuations after Bankruptcy Filings and the Investors who Drive Them . Journal Of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, (42):399-419.
- 2006. Using 10-K Reports Brings Management Accounting to Life!. Issues In Accounting Education, (21):267-290.
- 2000. Do We Really 'Know' What We Think We Know? A Case Study of Seminal Research and its Subsequent Overgeneralization . Accounting, Organizations, And Society, (25):103-129.
- 1999. Differential Interpretations and Trading Volume. Journal Of Financial And Quantitative Analysis:369-386.
- 1998. Discretionary Management Earnings Forecast Disclosures: Antecedents and Consequences of Forecast Venue and Forecast Specificity Choices .Journal Of Accounting Research:167-190.
- 1998. Does the Medium Matter? The Relations Among Bankruptcy Petition Filings, Broadtape Disclosure, and the Timing of Price Reactions. Journal Of Finance:1149-1163.
- 1997. Trading Volume and Different Aspects of Disagreement Coincident with Earnings Announcements . The Accounting Review:575-597.
- 1995. Differential Price and Volume Reactions to Accounting Earnings Announcements. The Accounting Review:417-441.
- 1994. Trading Volume Reactions to Annual Earnings Announcements: The Incremental Role of Information Asymmetry. Journal Of Accounting And Economics:309-329.
- 1993.Audit Structure and Other Determinants of Audit Report Lag: An Empirical Analysis. &Nbsp;:1-23.
- 1987. Unexpected Earnings, Firm Size, and Trading Volume Around Quarterly Earnings Announcements. The Accounting Review:510-532.
- 1986. The Information Content of Annual Earnings Announcements: A Trading Volume Approach. Journal Of Accounting Research:40-56.
Books
- 2007.Managerial Accounting. Prentice Hall.
- 2005.Accounting. Prentice Hall, (Sixth Edition).
Working Papers
- 2012. Trading Volume around Earnings Announcements and Other Financial Reports: Theory, Research Design, Empirical Evidence, and Directions for Future Research. Working Paper.