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Isenberg School of Management Department of Accounting

Thomas Kida

Professor of Accounting

Telephone: 413-545-5650
Email: tkida@som.umass.edu
Office: SOM 220C
Syllabus: SOM 591J

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1978
M.S.B.A., University of Massachusetts, 1974
B.S.B.A., Western New England College, 1973

Selected Publications:

"Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking." Prometheus Books, 2006.

With Charles Bame-Aldred, "A Comparison of Auditor and Client Initial Negotiation Positions and Tactics," Accounting, Organizations and Society, (August 2007); 497-511.

With Christopher Agoglia and Dennis Hanno. “The Effects of Alternative Justification Memos on the Judgments of Audit Reviewees and Reviewers.” Journal of Accounting Research (March 2003): 33-46.

With Kimberly Moreno and James Smith. “The Impact of Affective Reactions on Risky Decision Making in Accounting Contexts.” Journal of Accounting Research (December 2002): 1331-1350.

With Kimberly Moreno and James Smith. “The Influence of Affect on Accounting Decision Making.” Contemporary Accounting Research (Fall 2001): 477-494.

With Sudip Bhattacharjee and Dennis Hanno. “The Impact of Hypothesis Set Size on the Time Efficiency and Accuracy of Analytical Review Judgments.” Journal of Accounting Research (Spring 1999): 83-100.

With James Smith and Mario Maletta. “The Effects of Encoded Memory Traces for Numerical Data on Accounting Decision Making.” Accounting, Organizations and Society (July 1998): 451-466.

Academic and Professional Activities:

Reviewer for The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting Literature, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and The National Science Foundation.

Photo: Thomas Kida - Professor of Accounting

Research Interests:

Behavioral decision theory
Decision heuristics and biases
Memory and encoding issues
Risky decision making
Hypothesis testing strategies


Teaching Interests:

Critical thinking and decision making
Behavioral research in accounting
Financial accounting