I have served as the vice president-tax for Bausch + Lomb and as the head of the corporate tax department at Goulds Pumps Inc. In both roles, I had overall responsibility for the leadership, management, administration, and direction of the corporate tax function. This included responsibility for global tax planning strategies, and working closely and collaboratively with operations and the corporate legal and treasury functions to determine and implement optimum legal, debt, and equity structures, and to maximize after-tax cash flows to the parent corporations through dividend planning and other repatriation strategies.

I have also served as Bausch + Lomb’s director of external tax reporting, responsible for the company’s income tax accounting and financial reporting requirements, and as a director in Bausch + Lomb’s corporate treasury department, continuing to work closely with operations and other corporate functions regarding global cash flow strategies, debt compliance, accounting for derivatives and other external reporting requirements, and the minimization of FX exposures and risks.

I am a Certified Public Accountant licensed in New York State, and was a manager at the public accounting firm of Deloitte prior to my corporate experience.

Zimmerman is a founding editor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics. He was also a distinguished faculty member of the American Accounting Association’s Doctoral Consortium, and a visiting professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,Hong Kong University, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is on the board of directors of IEC Electronics and on the company’s audit and compensation committees.

Professor Wu’s research speaks to issues related to financial disclosure and regulations as well as the behavior of financial institutions and intermediaries. Her work has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and Review of Financial Studies, among others. She has been named to the Simon School Dean’s Teaching Honor Roll numerous times. Professor Wu is an editor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics.

Professor Wojdat gained public accounting experience working for two years as an auditor with Peat Marwick and Mitchell. A certified public accountant, he spent five years at Warner Lambert engaged in internal auditing, cost accounting, financial analysis and treasury activities. He then performed financial planning and analysis functions at Xerox Corporation for three years. After receiving his doctoral degree, he taught at Syracuse University
for one year before joining the Simon School faculty.

Professor Wasley is an award-winning researcher and an award-winning teacher. In 2019, his article “Performance Matched Discretionary Accrual Measures,” Journal of Accounting and Economics (February 2005, co-authored with S.P. Kothari at MIT and Andrew Leone at Northwestern) was honored with the American Accounting Association’s: “2019 Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award.” For his Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation course he has been awarded superior teaching awards by students in the Simon School’s MBA, MSF and MSA programs. Professor Wasley has worked as a litigation consultant on numerous corporate shareholder lawsuits including Enron, AIG and Blackrock.

Professor Tribunella worked in industry as an auditor and accountant before beginning a career in academia. He has been on the faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY Institute of Technology, SUNY Oswego and SUNY Geneseo.

Professor Tribunella has served as an auditor for two national firms, Deloitte & Touche and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. At those firms, she served clients in the health care industry as well as midsized firms. Tribunella, also a New York State Certified Public Ac­count­ant, spent over five years in industry as a manager of financial reporting for two different health care companies.

Professor Pandey’s research broadly focuses on empirical accounting, intersecting with political economy, labor economics, and corporate finance. He has a special interest in how various frictions (e.g., informational, contractual, individual beliefs) and innovations (e.g., transparency) both shape and are influenced by the behavior of and interactions between firms, employees, investors, regulators, and auditors. His research has examined a range of topics related to regulatory actions, political ideology, market feedback, supply chains, and financial and non-financial disclosures and transparency. His research is published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics and The Accounting Review.

Professor Jayaraman is the Wesray Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Accounting. Professor Jayaraman's research interests are in corporate governance and the effects of accounting information in financial markets. His work on corporate governance examines how large shareholders discipline managers via the threat of exit, and the role that stock market liquidity plays in the design of executive compensation contracts.