Accounting Awards

Ethan Rouen was awarded the American Accounting Association Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Best Dissertation Award for 2018 for "Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and its Relation to Firm Performance." Ethan completed his Ph.D. at Columbia in 2017 and is now an assistant professor at Harvard Business School.

Yuan Zou is the winner of the 2017 PhD Alumni Accounting Award, an award given by a committee of Columbia PhD Alumni to recognize the most promising PhD student in accounting. Yuan works on examining the consequences of more transparent disclosure on executive compensation packages, and the role of passive investors in reshaping the capital markets.

Prof. Stephen Penman and CBS graduate student Erik Johannesson have been awarded the 2016 Abacus Best Manuscript Award. Penman’s paper is titled “Valuation: Accounting for Risk and the Expected Return.” The Johannesson paper (joint with James Ohlson) is ’“Equity Value as a Function of (eps1, eps2, dps1, bvps, beta): Concepts and Realities.”