Guy D. Fernando
Associate Professor and Chair, Accounting and Law
Massry School of Business
Education
PhD, Accounting, Syracuse University, 2007
About
Faculty Expertise and Achievement
Dr. Fernando studies various aspects of accounting information and how it affects the firm’s information environment. Within this broad field, he has researched the impact of accounting information on diverse topics such as gender diversity, family firms, productivity, institutional ownership, information asymmetry, financial report readability, and lately, short-selling.
Research Interests
Agency Theory, Accounting Information, Earnings Quality, Accruals Manipulation, Impact of Gender on Accounting Research Variables, Data Envelopment Analyses
Research Websites
Teaching Interests and Areas
- BACC 518 – Accounting for Managers.
- BACC 630 – Advanced Cost Management.
- BACC 680 – Research Seminar in Accounting.
- BACC 411 – Financial Accounting Theory III.
- BACC 211 – Introduction to Financial Accounting