Thorsten Sellhorn

Research interests

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Financial Reporting Properties (including "Quality", Conservatism, and Earnings Management), Empirical Accounting Research, Fair Value Accounting, Disclosure, Fundamental Analysis, Audit Quality, ‘Real Effects’ of Financial Reporting.

Education

• 2004-2008 Post-doctorate degree (German Habilitation; prerequisite to being a full university professor) at the Department of Economics and Business Administration, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

• 1999-2004 Dr. rer. oec. (equivalent to Ph.D.) in Economics and Business Administration at the Chair of International Accounting, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Pellens, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (summa cum laude) Thorsten Sellhorn, p. 2

• 1998 Project and teaching assistant at the Department of Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), School of Business

• 1997-1998 Student of Business Administration at University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) – School of Business, majoring in Accounting
  Degree: Master of Business Administration (MBA) – Accounting (December 1998)

• 1993-1997 Student in Economics and Business Administration at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Department of Economics and Business Administration, majoring in International Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation

• Master's thesis (in German): “Der Steuersatz im Rahmen der Lehre vom Stufenbau des Steuertatbestandes“ („Tax Rates and the German Constitution“)

• 1992 German secondary school diploma (Abitur) at Gymnasium Wanne, Herne