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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.

• Spring 2009
  Performance Measurement
  
• Summer 2009
  Performance Measurement
  
• Fall 2008
  (PhD) Empirical Research in Accounting
  
• Summer 2008
  Accounting II - Managerial Accounting
  
Managerial Accounting

• Fall 2007
  Accounting I
  
• Summer 2007
  ACCOUNTING II
  
Managerial Accounting

• Fall 2006
  (PHD) EMPRCL RES/FINC ACC
  

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

Can Residual Income Distinguish between Earnings Growth Derived from Productivity Improvements and Investment-Driven Growth? In Working Paper (2008) Coauthor(s): Sudhakar Balachandran, Partha Mohanram

Solving the Executive Compensation Problem Through Shareholder Votes? Evidence from the U.K. In Working paper (2007) Coauthor(s): Sudhakar Balachandran, Fabrizio Ferri, David Maber

Conservatism and the Value Relevance of Financial Information In Working Paper (2005) Coauthor(s): Sudhakar Balachandran, Partha Mohanram

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