DR. SHARAD ASTHANA
	Chairman and Professor, Department of Accounting & Business Law, & Dean's Distinguished Research Scholar College of Business University of Texas - San Antonio Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Performance Evaluation Guest Professor, School of Economics & Management Beijing Jiaotong University Voice: (210) 458-5232 Fax: (210) 458-4322

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Dr. Sharad Asthana is an award winning teacher and researcher who obtained his Ph.D. in Accounting from University of Texas at Austin in 1995 after thirteen years of experience as a senior manager and CEO. Dr. Asthana has published in top-tier Accounting journals, such as, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting and Journal of Information Systems. He is a widely recognized researcher in the areas of pension accounting, capital markets, information technology, and market for audit services. According to a recent publication, he is ranked in the top 25 most published researchers in Accounting Information Systems. The BYU website ranks him in the top 10th percentile of most published accounting faculty, worldwide. He has won two Best Paper Awards and has been inducted twice into the Dean's Research Honor Roll for outstanding research.  He was also won two Teacher of the Year Awards for excellence in the classroom. He is the current Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Performance Evaluation. He has received the Endowed Award for Overall Faculty Excellence in 2014 and was named the Dean’s Distinguished Research Scholar in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Prior to joining academia, he was the Chief Executive Officer / Managing Director of a large Public Sector Corporation in India with over 4,000 employees.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Ph.D. in Accounting, 1995, University of Texas, Austin
Ph.D in Physics (ABD), 1977, Canning College, Lucknow University, India

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• “Impact of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Disclosure and Pricing of Earnings News,” with Rachana Kalelkar (UH-V), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (2020)
• "Fee Competition among Big 4 Auditors and Audit Quality" with Inder Khurana (U of Missouri) and K.K. Raman (UTSA), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (2019)
• "Diversification by the Audit Offices in the US and its Impact on Audit Quality," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (2017)
• "US-Listed Foreign Companies' Choice of a US-Based vs. Home Country-Based Big-N Principal Auditor and the Effect on Audit Fees and Earnings Quality" with K.K. Raman and Hongkang Xu, Accounting Horizons (September 2015).
• “Organizational Form and Accounting Choice: Are Nonprofit or For-Profit Managers More Aggressive?” with Chris Edmonds and Thomas Vermeer, The Accounting Review (2014).
• "Effect of Client Reputation on Audit Fees at the Office Level: An Examination of S&P 500 Index Membership,” with Rachana Kalelkar, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (2014). 
• "Abnormal Audit Fee and Audit Quality," with Jeff Boone, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (2012).
• "Corporate Governance, Audit Firm Reputation, Auditor Switches, and Client Stock Price Reactions: The Andersen Experience," with Steve Balsam and Jagan Krishnan, International Journal of Auditing (2010). 
• "Earnings Management, Expected Returns on Pension Assets, and Resource Allocation Decisions," Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (2008).
• "Factors Associated with the Early Adoption of the SEC's Revised Auditor Fee Disclosure Rules," with Jayanthi Krishnan, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (2006). 
• "Differential Response of Small Versus Large Traders to 10-K Filings on EDGAR," with Steve Balsam and Srinivasan Sankaraguruswamy, The Accounting Review (2004).
• "Impact of Information Technology on Post-Earnings Announcement Drift," Journal of Information Systems (2003). 
• "The Effect of EDGAR on the Market Response to Form 10-K Filing," with Steve Balsam, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (2001)
• "Differential Information Content Hypothesis, Firm Size, and Information Transfer: An Empirical Investigation," with Dr. Birendra Mishra, UT-Dallas, Journal of Business Research(2001)    
• "Determinants of Funding Strategies and Actuarial Choices for Defined-Benefit Pension Plans," Contemporary Accounting Research (1999).

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