Pervin Shroff

Pervin Shroff

Accounting Dept. Chair, Professor, Frederick H. Grose Chair in Accounting

Accounting Department

Education

PhD 1992
Accounting, Columbia University

ACS 1985
Institute of Company Secretaries of India

ACMA 1984
Institute of Cost and Management Accountants, London

ACA 1981
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

LLB 1979
Labor and Cooperation, Bombay University

BCom 1976
Accounting and Auditing, Bombay University

Expertise

Frederick H. Grose Chair in Accounting

  BCom, Bombay University
  Chartered Accountant (inactive), Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
  CMA (inactive), Institute of Cost and Management Accountants, London
  PhD, Accounting, Columbia University

Research Specialities:   Role of accounting in capital markets, security valuation and risk measurement, quality of earnings, accounting conservatism, consequences of accounting regulation, corporate disclosure strategies.

Selected Works

"Using Forecasts of Earnings to Simultaneously Estimate Growth and the Rate of Return on Equity Investment," Pervin Shroff, Peter Easton, Gary Taylor, and Theodore Sougiannis, Journal of Accounting Research (June 2002).

"Firm Undervaluation and Decisions Related to Repurchase Tender Offers: An Empirical Investigation," Pervin Shroff and Ranjan DMello, Journal of Finance (October 2000).

"Permanent and Transitory Earnings, Accounting Recording Lag, and the Earnings Coefficient," Pervin Shroff, Peter Easton, and Gary Taylor, Review of Accounting Studies (December 2000).

"The Relation Between Aggregate Earnings and Security Returns over Long Intervals," Pervin Shroff, Contemporary Accounting Research (Spring 2002).

"Properties of Accrual Income, Cash Flow, and Security Return: An Interpretive Exercise," Pervin Shroff, Issues in Accounting Education (November 1998).

"Determinants of the ReturnsEarnings Correlation," Pervin Shroff, Contemporary Accounting Research (Fall 1995).

"Changes Versus Levels in Earnings as Explanatory Variables for Returns: Some Theoretical Considerations," Pervin Shroff and James Ohlson, Journal of Accounting Research (Autumn 1992).

Current Activities

Administrative Appointments

PhD Coordinator, Recruiting Committee

Current Research

Capital marketbased accounting

Role of accounting in security valuation

Earnings management

Honors and Awards

6.0 Club for Teaching Excellence, Haas School of Business, University of CaliforniaBerkeley, 1996

Pacesetter''s Award for Best Undergraduate Teacher, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, 1995