Avishek Bhandari (Avi) is an associate professor in the Department of Accounting at the UW-Whitewater. Avi is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), licensed by the Accountancy Board of Ohio. He has taught Introduction to Financial Accounting, Introduction to Managerial Accounting and Auditing to undergraduate students; Analytics in Accounting to Master’s students; and research methodology and accounting seminar courses to doctorate students. He has chaired and supervised several doctoral students’ dissertations in a wide range of accounting topics. His research has been referenced in policy sources and picked up by more than 50 news outlets including Forbes, PR NewsWire and Columbia Law School’ Blog. His research has been published in Journal of Corporate Finance (JCF), Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory (AJPT), Accounting Horizons (AH), Journal of Accounting & Public Policy (JAPP), Journal of Business Finance & Accounting (JBFA), Accounting & Finance (AF), Issues in Accounting Education, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (RQFA), and Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting (AQAFA). He has presented at multiple conferences including the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Midyear Meeting and the Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting. In 2020, his two research papers were selected as the semifinalist for the "Best Paper Award" at the 2020 Financial Management Association (FMA) Conference and the 2020 Academy of Economics and Finance (AEF) Conference respectively. Avi’s research interests include auditing, financial reporting, corporate social responsibility, investments, insider trading, credit ratings and executive compensation. Avi earned a PhD, an MSA and an MBA degrees from Florida Atlantic University, Kent State University and Bowling Green State University.
Related Party Transactions and Credit Ratings in the US Debt Market
The Effect of Employee Financial Pressure on Financial Reporting Outcomes
Trust and Accounting Conservatism: Evidence from Machine Learning
Detecting Fraud Using Benford’s Law: Excel and Alteryx Application
Organizational Psychological Capital and Financial Reporting Quality
Financial Misconduct Spillover: Institutional Investors with Disciplinary History and Aggressive Financial Reporting
Local Religiosity and Opportunistic Insider Trading
Community Social Capital, Corporate Governance and Capital Allocation Efficiency
Organizational Ambidexterity and Financial Reporting Quality
Financial Misconduct Spillover: Institutional Investors with Disciplinary History and Aggressive Financial Reporting
Religious Belief as Compensatory Control: Religiosity and Insider-trading Activity
Financial Misconduct Spillover: Unethical Institutional Ownership and Aggressive Financial Reporting
Financial Misconduct Spillover: Institutional Investors with Disciplinary History and Aggressive Financial Reporting
Financial Misconduct Spillover: Unethical Institutional Ownership and Aggressive Financial Reporting
Stressed About Money: The Effect of Employee Financial Pressure on Financial Reporting Outcomes
Financial Misconduct Spillover: Unethical Institutional Ownership and Aggressive Financial Reporting
CEO Political Ideologies and Auditor-Client Contracting
CEO Political Preference and Credit Ratings
CEO Political Ideologies and Auditor-Client Contracting
CEO Political Ideology and Bank Performance
Stressed About Money: The Effect of Employee Financial Pressure on Financial Reporting Outcomes
Association of Related Party Transactions with Sensitivity of Investments and External Financing
Diffusion of Innovations and Internal Controls
The Relationship between Stock Repurchase Completion Rates, Firm Reputation and Financial Reporting Quality: A Commitment-Trust Theory Perspective
Association of Related Party Transactions with Sensitivity of Investments and External Financing
Diffusion of Innovations and Internal Controls
Hamid Vakilzadeh
CEO Political Ideologies and Auditor-Client Contracting
Joanna Golden and Maya Thevenot
Association of Related Party Transactions with Sensitivity of Investments and External Financing
Mark Kohlbeck and Brian Mayhew
We investigate the association of related party transactions (RPTs) classified as tone and business with a firm’s capital allocation efficiency. We expect that opportunistic RPTs captured by our tone classification are associated with inefficiencies in c...
Corporate Culture and Financial Reporting Quality
Babak Mammadov, Maya Thevenot and Hamid Vakilzadeh
Corporate Culture and Financial Reporting Quality
Babak Mammadov, Maya Thevenot and Hamid Vakilzadeh
Corporate Culture and Financial Reporting Quality
Babak Mammadov, Maya Thevenot and Hamid Vakilzadeh
Firm Social Network, Information Transfer and Information Environment
I investigate whether a firm’s social network size (also known as social capital) impacts the quality of its information environment. The quality of firms’ information environments is important for the efficient allocation of resources within an economy. ...
Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities on Analysts’ Behavior
Mark Kohlbeck
We investigate whether or not a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities influence analysts’ behavior. CSR is concerned with the impact of corporations’ present actions on the ecosystems, societies, and environments of the future and includ...
Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics
Maya Thevenot ; Babak Mammadov
Debt-like compensation, referred to as inside debt, is prevalent in US firms and affects firm operating, investing and financial reporting activities. The amount of inside debt can be used to extract information that benefits analyst forecasting activitie...
Corporate Social Responsibility and Capital Allocation Efficiency
David Javakhadze
We investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm-level capital allocation efficiency. Using seminal investment-Q framework, we provide evidence that CSR distorts investment sensitivity to Q. We further determine that ...
Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities on Analysts’ Behavior
Mark Kohlbeck
We investigate whether or not a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities influence analysts’ behavior. CSR is concerned with the impact of corporations’ present actions on the ecosystems, societies, and environments of the future and includ...
Corporate Culture and Financial Reporting Quality
Babak Mammadov, Maya Thevenot and Hamid Vakilzadeh
Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics
Maya Thevenot ; Babak Mammadov
Debt-like compensation, referred to as inside debt, is prevalent in US firms and affects firm operating, investing and financial reporting activities. The amount of inside debt can be used to extract information that benefits analyst forecasting activitie...
Does CEO network size improve a firm’s information environment?
I examine whether the CEO network size is associated with firm’s information environment. Formed through current employment (CE), prior employment (PE), education (Ed), and other activities (OA), these connections facilitate certain value-creating financi...
Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics
Maya Thevenot ; Babak Mammadov
Debt-like compensation, referred to as inside debt, is prevalent in US firms and affects firm operating, investing and financial reporting activities. The amount of inside debt can be used to extract information that benefits analyst forecasting activitie...
Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics
Maya Thevenot ; Babak Mammadov
Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics
Maya Thevenot ; Babak Mammadov
Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities on Analysts’ Behavior
Dr. Mark Kohlbeck
We investigate whether or not a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities influence analysts’ behavior. CSR is concerned with the impact of corporations’ present actions on the ecosystems, societies, and environments of the future and includ...
The ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence Chatbot: How Well Does It Answer Accounting Assessment Questions?
Issues in Accounting Education
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Vol. 38 Iss. 4
November 2023
Stressed About Money: The Effect of Employee Financial Pressure on Financial Reporting Outcomes
Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Vol. 42 Iss. 1
February 2023
Birds of a feather flock together: Institutional investors with disciplinary history and financial reporting
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
Journal Article, Academic Journal
January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2023
Social Capital and Capital Allocation Efficiency
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting
Journal Article, Academic Journal
November 2022
Corporate Culture and Financial Reporting Quality
Accounting Horizons
Journal Article, Academic Journal
March 2022
Association of Related Party Transactions with Sensitivity of Investments and External Financing
Journal of Corporate Finance
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Vol. 72 Pg. 102146
February 2022
The relationship between stock repurchase completion rates, firm reputation and financial reporting quality: a commitment-trust theory perspective
Accounting & Finance
Journal Article, Academic Journal
November 2021
CEO Political Preference and Credit Ratings
Journal of Corporate Finance
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Vol. 68 Pg. 101909
June 2021
CEO Political Ideologies and Auditor-Client Contracting
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
Journal Article, Academic Journal
September 2020
Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities on Analysts’ Behavior
Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Iss. 16 Pg. 73-116
December 2018
Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics
Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Vol. 51 Iss. 2 Pg. 283-315
August 2018
It Is Not Only What You Know, It Is Also Who You Know: CEO Network Connections, Audit Quality and Financial Reporting Quality
Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Vol. 37 Iss. 2 Pg. 27-50
May 2018
Corporate Social Responsibility and Capital Allocation Efficiency
Journal of Corporate Finance
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Vol. 43 Pg. 354-377
April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2017
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