Ronald A. Dye
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Elizabeth Kroger Davis 708.771.6000
Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University
M.S., Carnegie-Mellon University
B.S., S.U.N.Y.
Ronald A. Dye is the Leonard Spacek Professor of Accounting and Department Chair of the Department of Accounting Information and Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He has held the position of Department Chair for fifteen years. Previously, he was the Eric Kohler Professor of Accounting at Northwestern, and he has also held appointments in both economics and accounting at the University of Chicago and appointments in accounting at Yale University, the University of Southern California, and Emory University.
Professor Dye is an expert on the economics of financial reporting, financial disclosures, accounting standards, and managerial accounting. His recent research includes a study of the factors that affect managers’ propensity to engage in earnings management and off-balance sheet financing, how firms’ capital structure decisions affect their voluntary disclosure choices, what variables influence the reliability and relevance of firms’ financial reports, and how firms’ strategic decision making can be improved by the design of their accounting systems.
Professor Dye is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the Review of Accounting Studies. He has been Vice President for Research at the American Accounting Association.
Professor Dye has consulted on a variety of accounting and financial matters, including the financial statement presentation of complex financial transactions, reporting and disclosure of off-balance sheet liabilities, the characterization of direct and overhead costs, accounting and performance measurement at professional service firms, and intellectual property valuation.