MBA, Accounting and Marketing, Arizona State University, 1978
BS, Accounting, Wake Forest University, 1975
Research Interests
Voluntary Disclosure
Analysts' earnings forecasts
Trading volume reactions to earnings announcements
Management accounting -- Determining the profitability of products, services, and customers
Voluntary corporate disclosure
Peer review publication process
Publications
Journal Articles
Linda Bamber, John Jiang, and Isabel Wang. 2010. What’s My Style? The Influence of Top Managers on Voluntary Corporate Financial Disclosure. The Accounting Review, (85):1131-1162.
Linda Bamber, Kai Wai Hui, and Eric Yeung. 2010. Managers’ EPS Forecasts: Nickeling and Diming the Market?. The Accounting Review, (85):63-95.
Linda Bamber, John Jiang, Kathy Petroni, and Isabel Wang. 2010.Comprehensive Income: Who’s Afraid of Performance Reporting?.The Accounting Review, (85):97-126.
E. Michael Bamber and Linda S. Bamber. 2009. Discussion of: Mandatory Audit Partner Rotation, Audit Quality, and Market Perceptions: Evidence from Taiwan. Contemporary Accounting Research, ( Vol. 20, No. 2):393-402.
Mark Dawkins, Neil Bhattacharya, and Linda Bamber. 2007.Systematic Share Price Fluctuations after Bankruptcy Filings and the Investors who Drive Them . Journal Of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, (42):399-419.
E.M. Bamber and L.S. Bamber. 2006. Using 10-K Reports Brings Management Accounting to Life!. Issues In Accounting Education, (21):267-290.
Linda Bamber, Ted Christensen, and Ken Gaver. 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.
Linda Bamber, Orie Barron, Tom Stober. 1999. Differential Interpretations and Trading Volume. Journal Of Financial And Quantitative Analysis:369-386.
Linda Bamber and Youngsoon Cheon. 1998. Discretionary Management Earnings Forecast Disclosures: Antecedents and Consequences of Forecast Venue and Forecast Specificity Choices .Journal Of Accounting Research:167-190.
Mark Dawkins and Linda Bamber. 1998. Does the Medium Matter? The Relations Among Bankruptcy Petition Filings, Broadtape Disclosure, and the Timing of Price Reactions. Journal Of Finance:1149-1163.
Linda Bamber, Orie Barron, Tom Stober. 1997. Trading Volume and Different Aspects of Disagreement Coincident with Earnings Announcements . The Accounting Review:575-597.
Linda Bamber and Youngsoon Cheon. 1995. Differential Price and Volume Reactions to Accounting Earnings Announcements. The Accounting Review:417-441.
Rowland Atiase and Linda Bamber. 1994. Trading Volume Reactions to Annual Earnings Announcements: The Incremental Role of Information Asymmetry. Journal Of Accounting And Economics:309-329.
E. Michael Bamber, Linda Bamber, and Michael Schoderbek. 1993.Audit Structure and Other Determinants of Audit Report Lag: An Empirical Analysis.:1-23.
Linda Bamber. 1987. Unexpected Earnings, Firm Size, and Trading Volume Around Quarterly Earnings Announcements. The Accounting Review:510-532.
Linda Bamber. 1986. The Information Content of Annual Earnings Announcements: A Trading Volume Approach. Journal Of Accounting Research:40-56.
Books
Linda Smith Bamber, Karen Braun, and W. Thomas Harrison. 2007.Managerial Accounting. Prentice Hall.
Charles Horngren, W. Thomas Harrison, and Linda Bamber. 2005.Accounting. Prentice Hall, (Sixth Edition).
Working Papers
Linda Bamber, Orie Barron, and Doug Stevens. 2012. Trading Volume around Earnings Announcements and Other Financial Reports: Theory, Research Design, Empirical Evidence, and Directions for Future Research. Working Paper.
Awards, Honors, and Recognition
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’ 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
Prior Professional Positions
Faculty of Accounting, Visiting Associate Professor, Indiana University, 1989-1990
Assistant and Associate Professor, University of Florida, School of Accounting, 1983-1989
Management Accountant, R. J. Reynolds, RJR Foods, 1975-1977