Thomas E. Kida : Isenberg School of Management : UMass Amherst

Office

Isenberg 220C

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Education

PhD Accounting, UMass Amherst, 1978

MSBA Accounting, UMass Amherst, 1974

BSBA Accounting, Western New England College, 1973

Academic Appointments

Professor of Accounting - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 9/86-Present

Visiting Professor of Accounting - University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 1/87-6/87

Associate Professor of Accounting - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 9/82-9/86

Assistant Professor of Accounting - Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA, 9/78-9/82

Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting - University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 6/81-12/81

Recent Honors / Awards

Notable (Lifetime) Contribution Award to the Behavioral Accounting Literature from the American Accounting Association, 2014

Best Paper Award at the National Audit Meeting of the American Accounting Association, 2010

Research Interests

Behavioral Decision Theory

Decision Heuristics and Biases

Memory and Encoding Issues

Risky Decision Making

Hypothesis Testing Strategies

Negotiation

Teaching Interests

General

Critical Thinking and Decision Making
Behavioral Research in Accounting
Financial Accounting

Selected Publications

Managing Audits to Manage Earnings: The Impact of Diversions on an Auditors Detection of Earnings Management, with Benjamin Luippold, Dave Piercey, and James Smith, Accounting, Organizations and Society, forthcoming, 2014.

The Impact of Anecdotal Data in Regulatory Audit Firm Inspection Reports, with James Wainberg, Dave Piercey, and James Smith, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 38, 2013, pp. 621-636.

The Impact of Initial Information Ambiguity on the Accuracy of Analytical Review Judgments, with Benjamin Luippold, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, May, 2012, pp. 113-129.

The Relative Effectiveness of Persuasion Tactics in Auditor-Client Negotiations, with Steve Perreault, Accounting, Organizations and Society, November, 2011, pp. 534-547.

Thomas E. Kida