Office: 420 RBC Phone: 610-758-3409 Fax: 610-758-6429 Email: jal3@lehigh.edu Advanced Financial Accounting (UG) The Corporate Financial Reporting Environment (MSAIA) Financial Statement Analysis and Interpretation (UG and MBA) Introduction to Financial Accounting (UG; course coordinator-9 sections)

James A. Largay III, Ph.D. holds the Arthur Andersen Professorship in Accounting.

Department of Accounting: Professor

Education
-  University of Denver, B.S.
-  Texas Technological College, M.B.A.
-  Cornell University, Ph.D.

James A. Largay III, Ph.D., CPA, has been a Professor of Accounting since 1980. In 1993 he received the Deming Lewis Faculty Award from the Lehigh University Class of 1983. Professor Largay authored or co-authored about 40 articles that appear in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accountancy, Accounting Horizons, the Financial Analysts Journal and other journals. He is a co-author of Advanced Financial Accounting, 10/e (Thomson, 2006), Accounting for Changing Prices (Wiley, 1976) and is a contributor to the Handbook of Modern Accounting, the Handbook of Cost Accounting and the Handbook of Cost Management. He is a member of the American Accounting Association (AAA), the American Institute of CPAs, and Financial Executives International. He was Managing Editor and Editor of Accounting Horizons (2000-2003) and served as President of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the AAA (1994-1995).

Research Interests

• business combinations and consolidated financial statements
• cash flow reporting
• financial statement analysis
• derivative financial instruments

Teaching Interests

• Financial Accounting and Reporting
• Financial Statement Analysis

Publications and Working Papers

• "The Role of Accounting Information in Revenue Management" (with Ronald Huefner), Business Horizons, (Vol. 51, No.3). May-June 2008; 245-255.
• "Has SFAS 133 Made Derivatives Reporting More Transparent? A Look at the Dow-Jones 30" (with Susan Hamlen), Journal of Derivatives Accounting, (Vol. 2, No. 2). Sep. 2005; 215-230.
• "The Predictive Ability of Direct Method Cash Flow Information" (with Gopal Krishnan), Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Jan./Mar., 2000; 215-245.
• "Reporting Consolidated Gains and Losses from Subsidiary Stock Issuances" (with Michael Davis), The Accounting Review, Apr., 1988; 348-363.
• "How 'Conservative' are Standard and Poor's Core Earnings?" (with Gopal Krishnan); working paper 2006.

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