Krishna R. Kumar
Title: Associate Dean of Research and Doctoral Studies and Professor of Accountancy
Department: Accountancy
Address: Funger Hall 601P
Phone: (202) 994-5976
Email: kkumar@gwu.edu
Degrees: Ph.D., Columbia University, 1988
M.B.A., Indian Institute of Management, 1976
B.S., Indian Institute of Technology, 1974
Area of Expertise: Financial Accounting; Management Compensation; Economic Analysis of Accounting; Auditing Issues
Publications:
"The value-relevance of cash flows and accruals: The role of investment opportunities" (with Gopal V. Krishnan, George Mason University), forthcoming in The Accounting Review, 2008.
“The information content of the deferred tax valuation allowance” (co-authored with Gnanakumar Visvanathan, George Mason University) The Accounting Review, Volume 78 Number 2, 2003.
“The explanatory power of earnings levels versus earnings changes in the context of executive compensation” (co-authored with co-authored with William Baber and Sok-Hyon Kang, Yale University), The Accounting Review, Volume 74 Number 4, 1999.
“Accounting earnings and executive compensation: the role of earnings persistence” (co-authored with William Baber, GWU, and Sok-Hyon Kang, Carnegie Mellon University), Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 25, Number 2, 1998.
Editorial Positions: Editorial Board Member of Accounting Horizons and Review of Accounting and Finance.
Current Research: “Auditor capacity stress and audit quality: Market-based evidence from Andersen’s indictment” (with Stephen C. Hansen and Mary W. Sullivan, GWU).
“Was Andersen less than its Peers?: A Comparative Analysis of Audit Quality” (with Lucy Lim, GWU).
Grants: Dean’s Scholar, School of Business, 2005-06.
J. Wendell and Louise Crain Research Fellowship from the School of Business and Public Management, The George Washington University, 2003.