Kathy Petroni
Professor
Deloitte/Michael Licata Professor of Accounting
225 N. Business Complex
Phone: (517) 432-2924
Email: petroni@bus.msu.edu
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Course Pages
- ACC 808: Financial Reporting Decisions
Spring 2008
- WMBA 814: Accounting & Capital Markets
Spring 2008
Research Interests
- Financial reporting
Bio(s)
- Kathy Petroni is the Deloitte/Michael Licata Professor of Accounting at Michigan State University's Eli Broad College of Business. Her primary research interest is in financial accounting.
Articles
- Bamber, Jiang, Petroni, and Wang. (2010). Comprehensive Income: Who’s afraid of performance statement reporting?. The Accounting Review 85: 1.
- Jiang, Petroni, and Wang. (2010). and CFOs: Who have more influence on earnings management?. Journal of Financial Economics forthcoming.
- Baik, Farber, and Petroni. (2009). Analysts’ incentives and street earnings. Journal of Accounting Research 47: 1. 45-69.
- Ke, Petroni, and Yong. (2008 September). The effect of Regulation FD on transient institutional investors’ trading behavio. Journal of Accounting Research
- Farber, Johnson, & Petroni. (2007). Congressional intervention in the standard setting process: An analysis of the Stock Option Reform Act of 2004. Accounting Horizons 21: 1. 1-22.
- Lee, Petroni, & Shen. (2006). Cherry picking, disclosure quality, and comprehensive income reporting choices:. Contemporary Accounting Research 23: 3.
- Ke and Petroni. (2004). How informed are actively trading institutional investors? Evidence from their trading behavior before a break in a string of consecutive earnings increases. Journal of Accounting Research 42: 5. 895-927.
- Ke, Huddart and Petroni. (2003). What insiders know about future earnings and how they use it: Evidence from insider trades. Journal of Accounting & Economics 35: 3. 315-346.
- Graham, Lefanowicz, and Petroni. (2003). The Value-Relevance of Equity Method Fair Value Disclosures. Journal of Business, Finance, & Accounting 30: 7-8. 1065-1088.
- Carroll, Linsmeier, and Petroni. (2003). The Reliability of Fair Value versus Historical Cost Information: Evidence from Closed-End Mutual Funds. Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance 18: 1. 1-23.
- Petroni. (2003). Discussion of Improving Financial Reports by Revealing the Accuracy of Prior Estimates. Contemporary Accounting Research Spring: 195-199.
- Beatty, Ke, and Petroni. (2002 July). Earnings management to avoid earnings declines across publicly and privately held banks. The Accounting Review 547-570.
- Beasley and Petroni. (2001). Board Independence and Audit-Firm Type. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory 20: 1. 97-114.
- Ke, Shackelford, and Petroni. (2000). The Impact of State Taxes on Self-Insurance. Journal of Accounting and Economics 30: 1. 99-122.
- Petroni, Ryan and Wahlen. (2000). Discretionary and Non-Discretionary Revisions of Loss Reserves by Property-Casualty Insurers: Differential Implications for Future Profitability, Risk and Market Value. Review of Accounting Studies 5: 2. 95-125.
- Petroni and Shackelford. (1999 July). Managing Financial Statements to Avoid State Taxes: An Analysis of Property-Casualty Insurers. The Accounting Review 371-393.
- Ke, Petroni, and Safieddine. (1999 December). Ownership Concentration and Sensitivity of Executive Pay to Accounting Performance Measures: Evidence from Publicly and Privately-held Insurance Companies. Journal of Accounting and Economics 185-209.
- Godwin, Petroni, and Wahlen. (1998). Fair Value Accounting for Property-Liability Insurers and Classification Decisions under SFAS 115. Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance Summer: 207-239.
- Ke, Outslay, and Petroni. (1998). Taxes as a Determinant of Foreign-Owned Property-Liability Insurers’ Investment Strategies in the United States. Journal of the American Taxation Association 25-36.
- Anthony and Petroni. (1997). Accounting Estimation Error Disclosures and Firm Valuation. Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance Summer: 257-281.
- Beasley and Petroni. (1996). Errors in Accounting Estimates and their Relation to Audit Firm Type. Journal of Accounting Research Spring: 151-172.
- Petroni and Shackelford. (1995 December). Taxation, Regulation, and the Organizational Structure of Property-Casualty Insurers. Journal of Accounting and Economics 229-253.
- Petroni and Wahlen. (1995 December). The Impact of Fair Value Accounting for Investment Securities on Share Prices of Property-Liability Insurance Companies. The Journal of Risk and Insurance 719-737.
- Petroni. (1992 December). Optimistic Reporting within the Property-Casualty Insurance Industry. Journal of Accounting and Economics 485-508.