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STEPHANNIE LAROCQUE, PhD, CFA
398 Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, 46556
574-631-6136; larocque.1@nd.edu
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2009-present Assistant Professor of Accountancy
Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
Teach Decision Processes in Accounting to junior- and senior-year
accounting students
1992-1994 Instructor
Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
Received Dean’s Commendation for outstanding teaching ratings
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1994 - 2002 UBS Securities, Toronto - Vice President and Media Analyst
Eight years experience analyzing and valuing publicly traded
companies in the media and cable sector
EDUCATION
2009 PhD (Accounting)
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
1997 Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder, CFA Institute
1992 Honors Bachelor of Arts (Business Administration)
Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
Dean's Honor Roll, 1989-1992
OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Tutor, Rotman School of Management EMBA program, University of Toronto
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Accounting Association
Canadian Academic Accounting Association
CFA Institute
AWARDS AND HONORS
University of Toronto Fellowship, 2003-2009
University of Toronto Tuition Scholarship, 2003-2009
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Empirical capital markets including cost of equity capital, analyst forecasts, and
management forecasts
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Larocque, S. 2012. Analysts’ Earnings Forecast Errors and Cost of Equity
Capital Estimates. Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming).
Brown, L., and S. Larocque. 2012.Discrepancy between I/B/E/S Actual EPS and
Analysts’ Inferred EPS. The Accounting Review (forthcoming).
De Franco, G., Hope, O.-K., and S. Larocque. 2012. The Effect of Disclosure on
the Pay-Performance Relation. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
(forthcoming).
Foerster, S. and S. Larocque. 1995. History Lessons. Canadian Investment Review
(VIII).
WORKING PAPERS
“Analysts’ Choice of Peer Companies”
with Gus De Franco and Ole-Kristian Hope, University of Toronto
“Management Forecasts and Analysts’ Unpredicted Forecast Errors”
“Managers’ Cost of Equity Capital Estimates: Empirical Evidence”
with Alastair Lawrence. U. of California (Berkeley) and Kevin Veenstra
(McMaster University)
PROJECTS
“Firm-Level Returns”
with Gus De Franco, University of Toronto, and Peter Easton, University of
Notre Dame
“Analyst Following and the Pay-Performance Relation”
with Yibin Zhou, University of Texas at Dallas and Yuyan Guan, City
University of Hong Kong
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Ad hoc referee: AAA Conference (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012); CAAA Conference
(2008, 2012); Contemporary Accounting Perspectives (2009); Contemporary
Accounting Research (2010, 2011, 2012); FARS Conference (2008, 2009, 2010,
2011, 2012); Review of Accounting Studies (2010);
Invited discussant: AAA Conference (2009, 2011); CAAA Conference (2008);
Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting (2011); DePaul People &
Money Symposium (2012); FARS (2012; 2013)
Faculty Advisor for the Deloitte Case Competition (2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012)
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PRESENTATIONS
Invited:
2013: FARS Conference (San Diego)
2012: AAA Conference (Washington); Arizona State University; FARS
Conference (Chicago); Purdue University; University of Illinois (Chicago);
University of Iowa
2011: AAA Conference (Denver); Washington University
2010: AAA Conference (San Francisco); FARS Conference (San Diego);
University of Minnesota; University of Toronto
2009 FARS Conference (New Orleans); McMaster University; Queens
University; Rutgers University; University of Massachusetts; University of Notre
Dame; University of Waterloo
2008: AAA Conference (Anaheim); CAAA Conference (Winnipeg); EAA
Conference (Rotterdam); FARS Conference (Phoenix)
Contributed:
2012: University of Notre Dame
2011: University of Notre Dame; University of Toronto
2010: University of Notre Dame
2009: University of Notre Dame
2008: CAAA Craft of Accounting Workshop; University of Toronto
2007: University of Toronto
CONFERENCES ATTENDED
AAA Annual Meeting, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012
AAA Lake Tahoe Doctoral Consortium, 2007
AAA New Faculty Consortium, 2010
CAAA Conference, 2005 and 2008
CAR Conference, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2010
CARE Conference, 2010, 2011, and 2012
CFEA Conference, 2011
EAAA, 2008
FARS, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013
Mid-west Summer Research Conference, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012
RAST Conference, 2010
University of Toronto Summer Research Conference, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
2011, and 2012
Utah Winter Accounting Conference 2011
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Workshop committee (2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012)
Recruiting committee (2011)
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