Fac Staff Detail

Professor Balachandran is interested in performance measurement, corporate governance and valuation. These three subjects are sometimes referred to collectively as shareholder value management. Specifically, he studies how firms use performance measures to align the interests of managers and shareholders and create shareholder value. Balachandran, who has more than 10 years of business experience, is a former management consultant at Ernst & Young and manager at Baxter Healthcare Corporation. He teaches the core course on managerial accounting, for which he was given the Dean's Award For Teaching Excellence in 2006.

• Summer 2012
  Financial Planning & Analysis (MBA)
  Financial Planning & Analysis (EMBA)
  
• Summer 2011
  Financial Planning & Analysis (MBA)
  Financial Planning & Analysis (EMBA)
  
• Spring 2010
  Financial Planning & Analysis (EMBA)
  
• Summer 2010
  Financial Planning & Analysis (MBA)
  Financial Planning & Analysis (EMBA)
  
• Spring 2009
  Performance Measurement (EMBA)
  
• Summer 2009
  Performance Measurement (MBA)
  Performance Measurement (EMBA)
  
• Fall 2008
  (PhD) Empirical Research in Accounting (PHD)
  
• Summer 2008
  Accounting II - Managerial Accounting (MBA)
  Managerial Accounting (EMBA)
  

Is the decline in the value relevance of accounting driven by increased conservatism? In Review of Accounting Studies (2011) Coauthor(s): Sudhakar Balachandran

Are CEOs Compensated for Value Destroying Earnings Growth? In Review of Accounting Studies (2010) Coauthor(s): Sudhakar Balachandran

How Does Residual Income Affect Investment? The Role of Prior Performance Measures In Management Science (2006) Coauthor(s): Sudhakar Balachandran

Sink or Swim? Firms' Responses to Underwater Options In Journal of Management Accounting Research (2004) Coauthor(s): Sudhakar Balachandran, Mary Carter, Luann Lynch

Did Executive Compensation Encourage Extreme Risk-taking in Financial Institutions? In Working paper (2011) Coauthor(s): Sudhakar Balachandran, Bruce Kogut, Hitesh Harnal

The Probability of Default, Excessive Risk, and Executive Compensation: A Study of Financial Services Firms from 1995 to 2008 In Working Paper (2010) Coauthor(s): Sudhakar Balachandran, Bruce Kogut, Hitesh Harnal

Contracting and Compensation Around the World In Working Paper (2010) Coauthor(s): M. Badia, Sudhakar Balachandran

Do Voting Rights Matter? Evidence from the Adoption of Equity-Based Compensation Plans In Working paper (2004) Coauthor(s): Sudhakar Balachandran, Peter Joos, Joseph Weber

Using Residual Income to Refine the Relationship between Earnings Growth and Stock Returns In Review of Accounting Studies (2011) Coauthor(s): Sudhakar Balachandran