SOAR Leadership

Mary E Barth

Joan E. Horngren Professor of Accounting
Stanford University

“Academic research has great potential to help shape global financial reporting for the future... I am delighted to participate in SMU's efforts to take a leadership role in fostering high quality research that can help provide insights into standard setting debates.”

Mary Barth is the Joan E. Horngren Professor of Accounting and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). Professor Barth was a member of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) from its inception in 2001 until 2009, and served as its Academic Advisor from 2009 to June 2011. Professor Barth's research is published in a variety of journals and has won several awards, including the Wildman Medal Award, the Competitive Manuscript Award, and, on two occasions, the Best Paper Award of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA). She has been an Associate Editor of The Accounting Review and is on the Editorial Boards of several other leading academic journals.

Professor Barth is a recipient of the Stanford GSB's MBA Distinguished Teaching Award and PhD Faculty Distinguished Service Award. Professor Barth is active in the AAA, having served as Vice President and as chair of several committees. Prior to joining the IASB, Professor Barth's accounting standard setting activities included serving as a member of the Accounting Standards Executive Committee of the American Institute of CPAs and the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council of the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford in 1995, she was an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and an audit partner in Arthur Andersen & Co. Professor Barth holds an AB from Cornell University, an MBA from Boston University, and a PhD from Stanford University.

Katherine Schipper

Thomas F Keller Professor of Business Administration
Duke University: The Fuqua School of Business

Katherine Schipper is the Thomas F Keller Professor of Business Administration at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Prior to joining Duke University's faculty, she was a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). She has also been a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Chicago.

Prof Schipper has published research papers on a wide range of topics in financial reporting, corporation finance and corporate governance and she is a frequent speaker on matters related to financial reporting, international accounting convergence and financial reporting quality. She has been named the American Accounting Association's Outstanding Educator, and Distinguished International Lecturer, and has been elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame. She has served the American Accounting Association as Director of Research, as President and as President of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section. She is or has been a member of the governing boards of a public company, a mutual fund and a not-for-profit entity.

Prof Schipper holds a BA degree from the University of Dayton, MBA, MA and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago and an honorary degree from Notre Dame University.

Terry Shevlin

Professor of Accounting, Paul Merage Chair in Business Growth, Associate Dean of Research and Director of PhD Programs
UCI Paul Merage School of Business

Professor Terry Shevlin is a professor of accounting, Paul Merage Chair in Business Growth, Associate Dean of Research and Director of PhD programs at the UCI Paul Merage School of Business. He earned his PhD from Stanford University in 1986 and joined the faculty at the University of Washington where he worked for 26 years until joining UCI in the summer of 2012.  He visited the University of Iowa in 1991-92.  He held the Paul Pigott/Paccar Professor of Business Administration from 2004-2012. While at Washington he held various administrative position: faculty director of the PhD Program 1998-2006 and Accounting Department Chair from 2006-2012.  He has served as editor on three academic journals: Journal of the American Taxation Association (1996-1999), Senior Editor, The Accounting Review (2002-2005) and Co-editor, Accounting Horizons (2009-2012) and on numerous editorial boards (including the top four accounting journals).  He has published nearly 30 articles in the very top accounting and finance journals.

He has received a number of awards for his research and mentoring of PhDs the most recent being named the American Accounting Association Outstanding Educator for 2012. He was also named the American Taxation Association 2005 Ray M. Sommerfeld Outstanding Tax Educator. He has won the American Taxation Association Tax Manuscript Award three times (in 2004, 1995, and 1992) and twice won the AAA Competitive Manuscript for young scholars (1990 and 1987).  He was awarded the UW Business School Dean’s Faculty Research Award four times.

His research interests are broad and include the effect of taxes on business decisions and asset prices, capital markets-based accounting research, earnings management, employee stock options, research design and statistical significance testing issues.

His teaching interests: financial accounting, taxes and business decisions, empirical research methodology.

He has spoken at numerous doctoral consortiums.