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Associate Professor of Accounting

Professor Mittendorf's research interests involve how incentives influence and are influenced by accounting practices. His research has studied features of accounting systems that make them amenable to audit and useful in disciplining other corporate disclosures. His current research concerns motivational considerations in commonly confronted accounting and operational choices.

Selected Articles
"Interacting Supply Chain Distortions: The Pricing of Internal Transfers and External Procurement" (with A. Arya), The Accounting Review, Vol.82, 551-580, 2006

"Capital Budgeting when Managers Value both Honesty and Perquisites", Journal of Management Accounting Research, Vol. 18, 77-95, 2006

"Project Assignments when Budget Padding Taints Resource Allocation" (with A. Arya), Management Science,  Vol. 52, 1345-1358, 2006

"Using Disclosure to Influence Herd Behavior and Alter Competition" (with A. Arya), Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 40, 231-246, 2005

"Offering Stock Options to Gauge Managerial Talent" (with A. Arya), Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 40, 189-210, 2005 

"The Role of Biased Earnings Guidance in Creating a Healthy Tension between Managers and Analysts" (with Y. Zhang), The Accounting Review, Vol. 80, 1193-1209, 2005

For Professor Mittendorf's working papers, please visit his personal website >>

Education
PhD Ohio State University, 2002
BA Baylor University, 1996