Preeti Choudhary

Degrees

Ph.D. in Business Administration (Accounting), Duke University, 2008

Master of Science in Accounting, University of Virginia, 2000

B.S. in Commerce, University of Virginia, 1999

Areas of Expertise

• Capital markets financial accounting
• Financial reporting for taxes
• Recognition versus disclosure
• Financial reporting reliability

Current Research

Accounting

Auditing

Capital markets

Corporate governance

Financial reporting

Current Research

Choudhary, P., S. Rajgopal, and M. Venkatachalam.  2009. Accelerated Vesting of Employee Stock Options in Anticipation of FAS 123-R, Journal of Accounting Research 47 (1): 105-146.

Bio

Preeti Choudhary, Ph.D.,  is a professor of accounting at the Eller College of Management, University of Arizona. Previously, she was was a senior fellow in the Center for Economic Analysis at the PCAOB between June 2015 and December 2016 and an assistant professor in the accounting department at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. Her professional experience includes roles at Deloitte and Touche LLP in enterprise risk services and at The Washington Post Company (now known as Graham Holdings Company) in internal audit. Among Choudhary''s research interests are the capital market effects of financial reporting, including topics such as disclosure, recognition versus disclosure,  and financial reporting reliability. She is an expert on financial reporting for employee stock options, leases, and taxes and her work has been presented at, or published in, many leading accounting conferences and journals. Choudhary earned her B.S. in commerce and M.S. in accounting from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. from Duke University.

Courses

400B/500B Intermediate Accounting

501 Advanced Accounting

Teaching Interests

Financial Accounting