Thomas Kida

Education

PhD Accounting, UMass Amherst, 1978 MSBA Accounting, UMass Amherst, 1974 BSBA Accounting, Western New England College, 1973

Academic Appointments

Professor of Accounting - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 9/86-Present Visiting Professor of Accounting - University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 1/87-6/87 Associate Professor of Accounting - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 9/82-9/86 Assistant Professor of Accounting - Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA, 9/78-9/82 Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting - University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 6/81-12/81

Research Interests

• Behavioral Decision Theory
• Decision Heuristics and Biases
• Memory and Encoding Issues
• Risky Decision Making
• Hypothesis Testing Strategies
• Negotiation

Teaching Interests

• Critical Thinking and Decision Making
• Behavioral Research in Accounting
• Financial Accounting

Recent Honors & Awards

Notable (Lifetime) Contribution Award to the Behavioral Accounting Literature from the American Accounting Association , 2014 Best Paper Award at the National Audit Meeting of the American Accounting Association , 2010

Selected Publications

“Managing Audits to Manage Earnings: The Impact of Diversions on an Auditor’s Detection of Earnings Management,” with Benjamin Luippold, Dave Piercey, and James Smith, Accounting, Organizations and Society, forthcoming, 2014.

“The Impact of Anecdotal Data in Regulatory Audit Firm Inspection Reports,” with James Wainberg, Dave Piercey, and James Smith, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 38, 2013, pp. 621-636.

“The Impact of Initial Information Ambiguity on the Accuracy of Analytical Review Judgments,” with Benjamin Luippold, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, May, 2012, pp. 113-129.

“The Relative Effectiveness of Persuasion Tactics in Auditor-Client Negotiations,” with Steve Perreault, Accounting, Organizations and Society, November, 2011, pp. 534-547.