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Anthony Jerome Anderson, Ph.D. ( he, him, his)

Associate Professor

  • Accounting
  • School of Business

Biography

Anthony Anderson, Ph.D., earned his B.A. from Dartmouth College, MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He was also an instructor at Rutgers University from 2007 to 2013. Between 1989 and 2007, he worked in the profession as a corporate bond trader for Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and Company, Millennium Securities Brokerage, and Hapoalim Securities. Dr. Anderson specializes in liquidity and capital markets, market anomalies, and market efficiency. His areas of expertise include asset valuation, fixed-income securities, accounting, and financial statement analysis. 

Education & Expertise

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Accounting
Rutgers University
2013

Master of Management (M.i.M.)

English
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
1980

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

English
Dartmouth College
1979

Areas of Expertise

Business

Specialty Areas: Liquidity and Capital Markets, Pricing of Accounting Information, Market Efficiency, Corporate Governance, Banking Regulation and Accounting Regulation

Academics

Academics

Graduate Courses

Financial Accounting (Graduate) - GACC 500

Managerial Accounting (Graduate) - GACC 501

Corporate Financial Reporting (Graduate) - MACC 503

Accounting for Executives - XACC 500

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FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING (GRADUATE) GACC 500 

 

 

MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING (GRADUATE) GACC 501

 

Corporate Financial Reporting (Graduate) macc 503

 

XACC500–ACCOUNTING FOR EXECUTIVES 

This course is taught online in which the Financial Accounting portion of this class presents a study of the basic concepts of accounting with an emphasis on the evaluation of transactions and the preparation and analysis of financial statements, including their use in the executive and management decision making.

And, the Management Accounting portion focuses on the investigation of the uses of accounting data in planning economic and financial operation, performance evaluation and control; including budgeting, product costing, and models in decision-making. 

Publications and Presentations

Publications and Presentations

Managerial Opportunism and Real Activities Manipulation

Managerial Opportunism and Real Activities Manipulation: Evidence from Option Backdating Firms

This study aims to examine the use of real activities manipulation by firms implicated in the stock option backdating scandal. The authors report unusually low R&D and unusually low SG&A expenses among the backdating firms. They also find evidence of unusually high production costs among backdating firms compared to the matched firms.

Financial Misreporting Period and Investor Reaction to Securities Litigation

Financial Misreporting Period and Investor Reaction to Securities Litigation

This study investigates the relation between financial misreporting period and investor reaction to securities litigation announcement. A sample of 301 securities lawsuits between 1996 and 2005 is used in the regression of investor reaction around securities litigation on financial misreporting period and other variables. A negative relation is reported between financial misreporting period and the investor reaction to securities litigation announcement, which suggests that the longer the concealment period, the more the market perceives a securities fraud lawsuit as being meritorious. Our findings imply that the market losses associated with securities litigation can be mitigated if the misstating firms release negative earnings-related news in a timely manner. The results of this study contribute to our understanding of the investor reaction to securities litigation and also provide support for regulation that enhances the timeliness of material event disclosures.

PRESENTATIONS

Presented paper, “Explaining the On-The-Run Puzzle” at the FMA, Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 2014, on October 17, 2014, in Nashville, TN

Presented paper, “Auditor Litigation and the Penalties on US Client Firms After the PSLRA” at the AAA Mid-Atlantic Meeting 2017, on March 16, 2017, in Arlington, VA 

Presented paper, “Corporate Bond Liquidity Values in Stress Scenarios” at 2021 Washington Business Research Forum, on April 1, 2021, virtually in Washington, DC