Faculty Profile

EMAD MOHAMMAD

Accounting and Financial Management Services

Associate Professor

Area of Expertise

Dr. Mohammad’s research interests are in financial reporting and capital markets. His research examines the role that financial reporting and disclosures play in capital markets; the role of financial analysts as information intermediaries and the properties of their earnings forecasts; and executive compensation. His recent publications focused on the relation between financial reporting and information asymmetry, the impact of individual analyst characteristics such as experience, effort, and work load on the properties of their earnings forecasts. He also examined career concerns of financial analysts and its impact on their performance. His latest research project examines whether analyst earnings forecasting ability is only firm-specific. Moreover, he has also developed an interest in executive compensation research and business ethics. Dr. Mohammad’s publications appeared in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, and the Journal of Business Ethics.

Professional Activities

Dr. Mohammad is a member of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association and the American Accounting Association.  He also served as an ad hoc reviewer for The Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research.

Selected Publications:

• Lawrence D. Brown and E. Mohammad. 2010. Is Analysts’ Earnings Forecast Ability Firm-Specific? Contemporary Accounting Research.
• Kanagaretnam, K., G.J. Lobo, and E. Mohammad. 2009. Corporate Life Cycle and CEO Stock Options Grants.  Journal of Business Ethics, 90 (1): 137-155.
• Mohammad, E., and S. Nathan. 2008. Antecedents and Consequences of Financial Analysts Turnover. Review of Accounting Finance, 7 (4): 355-371.
• Mohd, E. 2005. Accounting for Software Development Costs and Information Asymmetry. The Accounting Review 80 (4): 1211-1231.
• Brown, L. D., and E. Mohd. 2003. The Predictive Value of Analyst Characteristics. Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance 18 (4): 625-648.

 

Selected Presentations:

• American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, August 2008
• Canadian Academic Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Niagara Falls, June 2006
• Canadian Academic Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Quebec City, June 2005
• American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, August 2003
• The Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance/KPMG Foundation Conference on Management of Accounting Information, NY , NY, USA, January 2003
• American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, August 2002

 

Research Grants:

• SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2005-2010), sole investigator
• CMA Ontario (2008-2011) with Kiridaran (Giri) Kanagaretnam

Education

PhD, Business Administration (Accounting), Georgia State University, 2004
MBA, Georgia State University, 1998
BA, Kuwait University, 1990