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Ray J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D., CPA Professor,
Ph.D. Program Director
Isenberg School of Management Phone:
413 545 5653 E-mail: pfeiffer@acctg.umass.edu |
| Biography | Course Pages | Links | Curriculum Vitae |
Ray Pfeiffer is an Associate Professor in the Isenberg School of Management. He received a BA in Accounting from Moravian College in 1987 and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1994. He teaches in the undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. programs at UMass, where he began his academic career in Fall 1994. His principal teaching interests include external financial reporting, financial accounting policy and regulation, and capital markets research in accounting. He is the recipient of the University-wide Distinguished Teaching Award (the University's most prestigious prize for classroom instruction), the Isenberg School of Management's Outstanding Teacher Award, and he has been both a Lilly Teaching Fellow and Mentor.
Professor Pfeiffer's research focuses on financial accounting issues including: stock market anomalies; valuation of earnings components; earnings forecasts; economic consequences of accounting regulation; and earnings management. His research has been published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and elsewhere, and he serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several academic accounting journals. He is regularly invited to present his research work at other universities and at academic conferences.
Prior to studying at North Carolina, he worked for the audit staff of Deloitte Haskins, and Sells and Deloitte & Touche for three years in Allentown, Pennsylvania and Raleigh, North Carolina, and was a licensed CPA in both states.
For more information, please see Professor Pfeiffer's curriculum vitae at http://intra.som.umass.edu/pfeiffer/cv.htm.
| Web Pages for Current Courses: | |
| SCH-MGMT 895C | Introduction to Capital Markets Research in Accounting (Fall 2007) |
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Web Pages and/or Syllabi for Courses Taught in Past Semesters: |
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| ACCTG 322 | Financial Reporting II (Spring 2007) |
| GERM 197B | Global Culture and Business: An Introduction to France and Germany's Role in the World Marketplace (Fall 2005) |
| SCH-MGMT 739 | Financial Reporting Theory and Research (Summer 2005) |
| SCH-MGMT 797AA | Financial Statement Analysis (Summer 2005) |
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Financial Reporting I (Spring 2004) |
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Global Culture and Business: An Introduction to Germany's Role in the World Marketplace (Spring 2004) |
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| SCH-MGMT 895C | Introduction to Capital Markets Research in Accounting (Fall 2004) |
| ACCTG 221H | Introduction to Accounting I (Fall 2002) |
| SCH-MGMT 631 | Accounting for Decision Making and Reporting (Spring 2000) |
| SCH-MGMT 734 | Accounting Policy and Theory (Spring 1998) (WordPerfect document) |
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