Brad Badertscher

Brad Badertscher is a Professor of Accountancy and the PwC Faculty Fellow. Brad researches financial accounting issues, focusing on financial report quality. In recent papers, he examined fair value accounting, tax aggressiveness, and private firm accounting. Brad teaches an accounting research class as well as Measurement and Disclosure II, an intermediate-level financial accounting course. Badertscher earned his MBA and PhD in Accounting from the University of Iowa.

Areas of Expertise

Financial Accounting

Education

Ph D, University of Iowa

MBA, University of Iowa

BS, University of Nebraska - Kearney

Publications

"Public Equity and Audit Pricing in the U.S.", (with Bjorn Jorgensen, Sharon Katz, Bill Kinney), Journal of Accounting Research, 52, 2014.

"The Market Pricing of Other Than Temporary Impairments", (with Jeffery Burks, Peter Easton), The Accounting Review, 89, 2014.

"The Separation of Ownership and Control and Corporate Tax Avoidance", (with Sharon Katz, Sonja Rego), Journal of Accounting and Economics, 56, 2014.

"Externalities of Public Firms’ Disclosures: Evidence from Private Firms’ Investment Decisions", (with Nemit Shroff, Hal White), Journal of Financial Economics, 3, 2013.

"Earnings Management and the Predictive Ability of Accruals with Respect to Future Cash Flows", (with Dan Collins, Thomas Lys), Journal of Accounting & Economics, 53, 2012.

"A Convenient Scapegoat: Fair Value Accounting by Commercial Banks During the Financial Crisis", (with Jeffery Burks, Peter Easton), The Accounting Review, 87, 2012.

"Accounting Restatements and the Timeliness of Disclosures", (with Jeffery Burks), Accounting Horizons, 25, 2011.

"Informed Trading and the Market Reaction to Accounting Restatements", (with Paul Hribar, Nicole Jenkins), The Accounting Review, 86, 2011.

"Overvaluation and Its Effect on Management’s Choice of Alternative Earnings Management Mechanisms", The Accounting Review, 86, 2011.

"Earnings Management Strategies and the Trade-Off between Tax Benefits and Detection Risk: To Conform or Not to Conform?", (with John Phillips, Mort Pincus, Sonja Rego), The Accounting Review, 84, 2009.

"Calibrating the Reliability of Publicly Available Nonprofit Taxable Activity Disclosures", (with Robert Yetman, Michelle Yetman), Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2008.