Afshad Irani
Professor
Accounting
Washington & Lee University
United States of America
Biography
Professor Irani joined the Williams School as an Associate Professor of Accounting in 2010 after spending 12 years at the University of New Hampshire where he was the Academic Director of the Master of Science in Accounting program at the time of his departure. Professor Irani received his Bachelor of Arts from The College of Wooster in 1990 and his Ph.D. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting from The Pennsylvania State University in 1998. He has taught a variety of courses in the financial accounting area at both undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, Professor Irani has extensive experience in executive education
Research Interest
Empirically investigating management and/or investor behavior as it relates to voluntary disclosure, earnings management, financial restatements, executive compensation, insider trading, and standard setting.
Publications
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Afshad Irani (2012)Impact of Job Complexity and Performance on CFO compensation (with Steven Balsam, Temple University and Jennifer Yin, University of Texas at San Antonio), Accounting Horizons, Vol: 26.
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Afshad Irani (2016) Electronic Disclosure Venues and Regulation Fair Disclosure (with Raquel Alexander, Washington and Lee University), Chapter in the E-Commerce Management Category of the Encyclopedia of E-Commerce Development, Implementation, and Management edited by In Lee (Western Illinois University), IGI Global.
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Afshad Irani (2015) Restatements: Do They Affect Auditor Reputation for Quality? with Stefanie Tate, University of Massachusetts at Lowell and Emily Xu, University of New Hampshire, Accounting Horizons, Vol: 29
