Pieter T. Elgers
Professor Emeritus Accounting
Academic Background
Education
DBA, University of Maryland, 1978
MBA, St Johns University
CPA, New York
Academic Appointments
Professor of Accounting, UMass Amherst, 1979-Present (tenure 1985)
Teaching Interests
Undergraduate
- Advanced Accounting
- Cost Accounting
Masters
- Corporate Financial Reporting
- Management Accounting
- Accounting Theory
- Advanced Management Accounting
PhD
- Statistical Analysis for Management Research
- Security-Market based Accounting Research
Recent Honors & Awards
American Accounting Association Doctoral Fellowship
A.A.A. Doctoral Consortium Fellow
Selected Publications
With S. Porter and L. Xu, "The Timing of Industry and firm-specific information in securities prices: a re-evaluation"Journal of Accounting and Economics (March 2008)
With R. Pfeiffer and S. Porter. "Anticipatory Income Smoothing: A Re-examination" Journal of Accounting and Economics(2003).
With M. Lo and R. Pfeiffer. "Investors vs. Financial Analysts' Weightings of Accruals in Expectations of Annual Earnings"Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (May 2003).
With M. Lo and R. Pfeiffer. "Delayed Securities Returns to Financial Analysts' Annual Earnings Forecasts" The Accounting Review (October 2001).