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Bhandari, Avishek

bhandara@uww.edu

At UW-Whitewater

Affiliation

University - Faculty/Staff

Department

Accounting

Position

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Office Phone

(262) 472-2197

Office Location

HH 3431

Personal Bio

Avishek Bhandari (Avi) is an assistant professor in the Department of Accounting at the UW-Whitewater. He has taught Introduction to Financial Accounting, Introduction to Managerial Accounting and Auditing to undergraduate students; Analytics in Accounting to Master’s students; and research methodology and accounting seminar courses to doctorate students. He has chaired and supervised several doctoral students’ dissertations in a wide range of accounting topics. His research has been published in Journal of Corporate Finance (JCF), Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory (AJPT), Accounting Horizons (AH), Journal of Accounting & Public Policy (JAPP), Accounting & Finance (AF), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (RQFA), and Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting (AQAFA). He has presented at multiple conferences including the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Midyear Meeting and the Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting. In 2020, his two research papers were selected as the semifinalist for the "Best Paper Award" at the 2020 Financial Management Association (FMA) Conference and the 2020 Academy of Economics and Finance (AEF) Conference respectively. Avi’s research interests include auditing, financial reporting, corporate social responsibility, investments, insider trading, credit ratings and executive compensation. Avi earned a PhD, an MSA and an MBA degrees from Florida Atlantic University, Kent State University and Bowling Green State University.

Awards

Name

Date

Sponsor

Description

AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow-

2016

American Accounting Association/Deloitte Foundation

Outstanding Research Assistant of the Year

2015

The Graduate and Professional Student Association at FAU

Rosalie Premuroso Scholarships

2015

The Accounting PhD Committee at FAU

Graduate Assistantship Award

2013

Florida Atlantic University

Graduate Assistantship Award

2012

Kent State University

Graduate Assistantship Award

2010

Bowling Green State University

Education

Degree

Major

School

Year

Ph.D. in Business Administration

Accounting

Florida Atlantic University

2017

Master of Science in Accounting

Accounting

Kent State University

2013

Master of Business Administration

Accounting

Bowling Green State University

2011

Bachelor in Business Administration

Finance

Apex College, Pokhara University

2008

Memberships

Name

Length of Membership

American Accounting Association

2014 - 2018

Golden Key International Honor Society

2016 - 2017

Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society

2016 - 2017

Conferences

Title

Co-Author(s)

Abstract

Financial Misconduct Spillover: Unethical Institutional Ownership and Aggressive Financial Reporting

Babak Mammadov and Blerina Bela Zykaj

Religious Belief as Compensatory Control: Religiosity and Insider-trading Activity

Md Nazmul Hasan Bhuyan

Financial Misconduct Spillover: Unethical Institutional Ownership and Aggressive Financial Reporting

Babak Mammadov and Blerina Bela Zykaj

Financial Misconduct Spillover: Unethical Institutional Ownership and Aggressive Financial Reporting

Babak Mammadov and Blerina Bela Zykaj

Financial Misconduct Spillover: Unethical Institutional Ownership and Aggressive Financial Reporting

Babak Mammadov and Blerina Bela Zykaj

Stressed About Money: The Effect of Employee Financial Pressure on Financial Reporting Outcomes

Babak Mammadov

Financial Misconduct Spillover: Unethical Institutional Ownership and Aggressive Financial Reporting

Babak Mammadov and Blerina Bela Zykaj

CEO Political Ideologies and Auditor-Client Contracting

Joanna Golden and Maya Thevenot

CEO Political Preference and Credit Ratings

Joanna Golden

CEO Political Ideologies and Auditor-Client Contracting

Joanna Golden and Maya Thevenot

Stressed About Money: The Effect of Employee Financial Pressure on Financial Reporting Outcomes

Babak Mammadov

Diffusion of Innovations and Internal Controls

Hamid Vakilzadeh

The Relationship between Stock Repurchase Completion Rates, Firm Reputation and Financial Reporting Quality: A Commitment-Trust Theory Perspective

Joanna Golden, Kenton Walker and Joseph Zhang

Association of Related Party Transactions with Sensitivity of Investments and External Financing

Mark Kohlbeck and Brian Mayhew

We investigate the association of related party transactions (RPTs) classified as tone and business with a firm’s capital allocation efficiency. We expect that opportunistic RPTs captured by our tone classification are associated with inefficiencies in c...

Association of Related Party Transactions with Sensitivity of Investments and External Financing

Mark Kohlbeck and Brian Mayhew

Diffusion of Innovations and Internal Controls

Hamid Vakilzadeh

CEO Political Ideologies and Auditor-Client Contracting

Joanna Golden and Maya Thevenot

Association of Related Party Transactions with Sensitivity of Investments and External Financing

Mark Kohlbeck and Brian Mayhew

Corporate Culture and Financial Reporting Quality

Babak Mammadov, Maya Thevenot and Hamid Vakilzadeh

Corporate Culture and Financial Reporting Quality

Babak Mammadov, Maya Thevenot and Hamid Vakilzadeh

Corporate Culture and Financial Reporting Quality

Babak Mammadov, Maya Thevenot and Hamid Vakilzadeh

Firm Social Network, Information Transfer and Information Environment

I investigate whether a firm’s social network size (also known as social capital) impacts the quality of its information environment. The quality of firms’ information environments is important for the efficient allocation of resources within an economy. ...

Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities on Analysts’ Behavior

Mark Kohlbeck

We investigate whether or not a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities influence analysts’ behavior. CSR is concerned with the impact of corporations’ present actions on the ecosystems, societies, and environments of the future and includ...

Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics

Maya Thevenot ; Babak Mammadov

Debt-like compensation, referred to as inside debt, is prevalent in US firms and affects firm operating, investing and financial reporting activities. The amount of inside debt can be used to extract information that benefits analyst forecasting activitie...

Corporate Social Responsibility and Capital Allocation Efficiency

David Javakhadze

We investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm-level capital allocation efficiency. Using seminal investment-Q framework, we provide evidence that CSR distorts investment sensitivity to Q. We further determine that ...

Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities on Analysts’ Behavior

Mark Kohlbeck

Corporate Culture and Financial Reporting Quality

Babak Mammadov, Maya Thevenot and Hamid Vakilzadeh

Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics

Maya Thevenot ; Babak Mammadov

Does CEO network size improve a firm’s information environment?

I examine whether the CEO network size is associated with firm’s information environment. Formed through current employment (CE), prior employment (PE), education (Ed), and other activities (OA), these connections facilitate certain value-creating financi...

Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics

Maya Thevenot ; Babak Mammadov

Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics

Maya Thevenot ; Babak Mammadov

Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics

Maya Thevenot ; Babak Mammadov

Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities on Analysts’ Behavior

Dr. Mark Kohlbeck

All Publications

Title

Publisher

Type

Details

Date

Stressed About Money: The Effect of Employee Financial Pressure on Financial Reporting Outcomes

Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory