Office: RBC 338 Phone: 610-758-2816 Email: gok208@lehigh.edu ACCT 151 - Financial Accounting I

Gopal Krishnan, Ph.D. holds the Joseph R. Perella and Amy M. Perella Chair.

Department of Accounting:  Professor

Education
-  Indian Merchants' Chamber, D. Com.
-  Sam Houston State University, M.B.A.
-  University of North Texas 

Gopal Krishnan joined the College of Business and Economics in 2008. Before joining Lehigh, Professor Krishnan taught at George Mason University for sixteen years and held the Northern Chapter of the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants Professorship in Public Accounting. He has also taught at The City University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Nanyang Technological University, and University of Manitoba. He is a Chartered Accountant, Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, and a Certified Information Systems Auditor.

Professor Krishnan has taught a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including Accounting Information Systems, Accounting Theory, Advanced Accounting, Auditing, Business Valuation, Corporate Financial Reporting, Cost Accounting, Intermediate Accounting, International Accounting, IT Auditing, and Managerial Accounting. He is cited in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers for his teaching excellence. He was named a Super CPA Educator by the Virginia Society of CPAs in 2006 and 2007. Professor Krishnan has consulted with the World Bank on international financial reporting issues. He has also served as the Director of Graduate Business Programs at George Mason and on the Board of Directors of the Northern Chapter of the VSCPAs and the Audit Committee of the Board of Visitors of George Mason University.

Research Interests

• Corporate governance
• Auditor independence, audit quality, and audit pricing
• Earnings management and accrual quality
• Financial statement fraud
• Ethics

Publications and Working Papers

• Auditor independence, auditor tenure and fees – Auditing Journal, 2007
• Gender and earnings quality – Journal of Business Ethics, 2008
• Audit fees and audit committee’s accounting expertise – Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, forthcoming
• Value relevance of earnings, cash flows, and accruals – The Accounting Review, forthcoming
• Audit committee expertise and accounting conservatism – Contemporary Accounting Research, forthcoming
• Inventory policy, accruals quality and information risk – Review of Accounting Studies, 2008
• Using discretionary accrual models to detect fraud and restatements – Contemporary Accounting Research, forthcoming
• Internal control deficiencies in the post-SOX era – the role of auditors and corporate governance - International Journal of Auditing, 2007

 

 

   

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