Partha Mohanram

Philip H. Geier, Jr., Associate Professor of Business

Accounting

BTech, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1990; MBA, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 1992; PhD (Business Economics), Harvard, 1999

Joined CBS in 2003

Partha Mohanram

Office
605A Uris

Phone
212-854-2561

E-mail
pm2128@columbia.edu

Fax
212-316-9219

Teaching and research interest

Professor Mohanram’s research has been published in the leading academic journals including the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics and the Review of Accounting Studies. His research focuses on the valuation of stocks, corporate disclosure and earnings management. His research has examined the valuation of Internet stocks, the calculation of cost of capital, the use of fundamental information in the valuation of growth stocks and the manipulation of earnings to maximize executive compensation. He has also studied the impact of Regulation Fair Disclosure (FD) on the functioning of financial analysts. His research has been cited often in the business press and he has appeared on CNBC to discuss his research on growth stocks. He serves on the editorial board of the Accounting Review. Mohanram teaches financial statement analysis to MBAs and executive MBAs, with an emphasis on exposing students to the potential manipulations of financial statements. He also teaches in Columbia’s executive education programs. He is currently the coordinator of doctoral program for the accounting group, and has served on the dissertation committees of several students.

Honors and awards

  • Stern School's Deans List for Outstanding Teaching Ratings (1999, 2003)
  • AAA New Faculty Consortium Fellow (1999)
  • Deloitte and Touche Foundation Doctoral Fellowship (1995-1997)
  • AAA Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Lake Tahoe (1995)
  • K.V. Srinivas gold medal for the best all round student at I.I.M (1992)

Journal articles

Managerial Discretion and the Economic Determinants of the Disclosed Volatility Parameter for Valuing ESOs In Review of Accounting Studies (2007) Coauthor(s): Eli Bartov, Partha Mohanram, Doron Nissim

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Separating Winners from Losers among Low Book-to-Market Stocks Using Financial Statement Analysis In Review of Accounting Studies (2005) Coauthor(s): Partha Mohanram

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Private Information, Earnings Manipulations, and Executive Stock-Option Exercises In Accounting Review (2004) Coauthor(s): Eli Bartov, Partha Mohanram

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Inferring the Cost of Capital Using the Ohlson-Juettner Model In Review of Accounting Studies (2003) Coauthor(s): Dan Gode, Partha Mohanram

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Valuation of Internet Stocks: An IPO Perspective In Journal of Accounting Research (2002) Coauthor(s): Eli Bartov, Partha Mohanram, Chandrakanth Seethamraju

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Working Papers

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

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

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