
Conner Blake
Education
MS in Accounting, Brigham Young University, 2018
BS in Accounting, Brigham Young University, 2018
Professional Experience
Assurance Intern, Ernst & Young, 2017
Corporate Accounting Specialist, TouchPoint, Inc., 2016
Recent Honors / Awards
Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award – Isenberg School of Management, 2022
Outstanding Manuscript Reviewer Award – AAA Annual Meeting, 2022
Arthur H. Carter Graduate Student Researcher Award, 2022
Arthur H. Carter Graduate Student Research Assistant Award, 2022
Outstanding Manuscript Reviewer Award – MAS Midyear Meeting, 2022
Return to Research Grant (competitive UMass Graduate School grant), 2021
PhD Best Teaching Assistant Award, 2021
IMA Lybrand Silver Medal (with J. Bentley, M. Shackell, and P. Trafford), 2020
Moss Adams Peer-to-Peer Scholarship, 2017
Research Interests
Judgment and Decision Making in Accounting
Sustainability Accounting and Regulation
Peer Disclosure Effects
Managerial Operating Distortion
Teaching Interests
Financial Accounting
Managerial Accounting
Sustainability Accounting
Selected Publications
Bentley, J., C. Blake, M. Shackell, and P. Trafford. 2020. Let me Explain! Strategic Finance (March 2020).