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Linda Myers

Linda Myers

Haslam Chair of Business & Distinguished Professor of Accounting, Mary, Jack, & Daniel H. Dougherty Faculty Fellow

Location Room - 606, Haslam Business Building , United States

Department:

Accounting & Information Management

Center:

Neel Corporate Governance Center

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Biography

Linda A. Myers, Ph.D., is the Haslam Chair of Business and Distinguished Professor of Accounting in the Department of Accounting and Information Management at the University of Tennessee. She is Mary, Jack, & Daniel H. Dougherty Faculty Fellow. Myers graduated from the University of Michigan in 2001 and has published in The Accounting Review; Journal of Accounting and Economics; Journal of Accounting Research; Contemporary Accounting Research; Review of Accounting Studies; Accounting, Organizations & Society; Management Science; Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory; Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; Accounting Horizons; Journal of Business Finance & Accounting; Journal of Business Ethics; and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. Myers also serves as a deputy editor-in-chief for Contemporary Accounting Research; as an editor for Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting Horizons and the Journal of International Accounting Research; as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance; and as an ad-hoc editor for The Accounting Review. She also serves on the editorial board of European Accounting Review and previously served on the editorial board of the Journal of International Business Studies.

Expertise:

Audit & Risk Management, Board of Directors, Corporate Governance, Earnings Forecasts and Valuation, Financial Reporting, International Accounting, Ownership Structure & Investors, Regulatory Oversight

Education:

2001 University of Michigan, Ph.D., Business Administration

1989 McMaster University, MBA, Finance

1988 McMaster University, Honours Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting

Awards/Honors
  • 2014 Notable Contribution to the Auditing Literature Award, AAA Auditing Section
  • 2012 – 2013 Faculty Excellence in Research Award, Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas
  • 2012 Contemporary Accounting Research 2012 Outstanding Reviewer Award
  • 2009 AAA FARS Best Paper Award
  • 2005 – 2007 Deloitte Faculty Fellowship (at Texas A&M University)
  • 2004 Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) Award for the outstanding Accounting Review article