RAMGOPAL VENKATARAMAN - SMU Accounting workshops

RAMGOPAL VENKATARAMAN
2006
Asst. Professor of Accounting Tel: (612) 625-7584
Carlson School of Management Fax: (612) 626-1335
University of Minnesota
3-122 CSOM
321-19 th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455 e-mail: rvenkataraman@csom.umn.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University 2001
B.Sc. University of Madras (RKM Vivekananda College), India 1981-1984
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
FCA The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) 1987
Grad. CWA The Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India (ICWAI) 1987
CURRENT POSITION
University of Minnesota
Carlson School of Management
Assistant Professor of Accounting Spring ’02 – date
WORKING PAPERS
“Goodwill Impairment Loss: Causes and Consequences” with Pervin Shroff and Zining Li
(both at the University of Minnesota). Presented at the Minnesota Empirical Accounting
Research Conference, 2004; the Financial Accounting and Reporting Confrence of the American
Accounting Association, 2005; Duke University; Penn State University and the Financial
Economics and Accounting Conference, 2005. Resubmitted to the Journal of Accounting and
Economics (2 nd round).
“Litigation Risk, Audit Fees and Audit Quality: Initial Public Offerings as a Natural
Experiment” with Joseph P. Weber (MIT) and Michael Willenborg (University of Connecticut).
Presented at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, 2004, University of Illinois,
University of Minnesota Empirical Accounting Research Conference, 2005; University of British
Columbia and Washington University at St. Louis. Submitted to the Accounting Review
“How Individual Analysts Choose Firms to Follow” with Lihong Liang (George Washington
University) and Edward J. Riedl(Harvard University). Being revised for resubmission to the
Journal of Accounting and Economics
“The Conservatism Principle and the Asymmetric Timeliness of Earnings: An Event-based
Analysis” (co-authored with Prof. Pervin K. Shroff and Suning Zhang). Presented at University
of Minnesota, City University of New York: Baruch College, George Washington University, and

Ohio State University, Financial Accounting and Reporting Conference of the American
Accounting Association, 2003; American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, 2004. Being
revised for resubmission to Contemporary Accounting Research
“Timeliness of Analysts’ Forecasts: The Informational Role of Follower Analysts” (coauthored
with Prof. Pervin K. Shroff and Baohua Xin). Presented at the University of Minnesota
Empirical Accounting Research Conference, 2003; the 14 th Annual Financial Economics and
Accounting Conference, Indiana University, 2003; American Accounting Association Annual
Meeting, 2004 ,Financial Accounting and Reporting Conference of the American Accounting
Association, 2006. Being revised
“SEC-Mandated MD&A Disclosures: News that can have a substantial effect on stock
prices” (co-authored with Prof. Orie E. Barron and Prof. Charles Kile).. Presented at the Joint
Symposium of the 11 th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, University
of Michigan, Fall 2000; FARS Mid-year meeting, 2002; University of Minnesota Empirical
Accounting Research Conference, 2002. Under revision for resubmission to Contemporary
Accounting Research.
“The Impact of SFAS 131 on Financial Analysts’ Information Environment” Presented at
the University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University; University of Iowa; London
Business School; University of Michigan; Michigan State University; University of Minnesota;
New York University; Washington University, St. Louis; Northeast Regional Meeting of the
American Accounting Association. May 2001.
WORK IN PROGRESS
“Analyst Rankings and Properties of Analyst Forecasts” with Sudhakar Balachandran
(Columbia University) and Baohua Xin (doctoral student, University of Minnesota)
“Financial Analyst Responses to Competition in the Information Market”
“Public and Private Information: Substitutes or Complements?” with Haiwen Zhang (doctoral
student, University of Minnesota)
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
11 th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, University of Michigan, 2000
Penn State University, 2000
Columbia University, 2001
University of Michigan, 2001
Michigan State University, 2001
University of California, Berkeley, 2001
University of Iowa, 2001
Washington University at St. Louis, 2001

New York University, 2001
London Business School, 2001
University of Minnesota 2001
University of Minnesota 2002
University of Minnesota mini-conference on Empirical Accounting Research, 2002
Baruch College, CUNY, 2003
Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, AAA, Annual Mid-year Meeting, 2003
George Washington University, 2003
University of Minnesota mini-conference on Empirical Accounting Research, 2003
14 th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, Indiana University, 2003
American Accounting Association, Annual Meeting, 2004
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2005
National University of Singapore, 2005
University of Minnesota mini-conference on Empirical Accounting Research, 2005
Penn State Accounting Research Colloquium, 2005
16 th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, Univ. of North Carolina, 2005
Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, AAA, Annual Mid-year Meeting, 2006
The Ohio State University, 2006
INVITED CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE
Washington University of St. Louis Accounting Conference, 2005
Accounting Foundations Conference, Emory University, 2006
Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation Conference, 2006
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Ad-hoc Reviewer
The Accounting Review
The International Conference of Information Systems, 2002
AAA Annual Meeting, 2000, 2003 and 2004.
The Journal of International Business Studies, 2003
Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Meeting, 2005 and 2006.
Information Systems Research, 2005 and 2006
Others
Discussant, AAA Annual Meeting 2003, 2006
Moderator, AAA Annual Meeting, 2005
Member, Best Dissertation Committee, FAR Section of the AAA, 2004-2005.

SERVICE ON MASTERS AND DOCTORAL COMMITTEES
Haiwen Zhang, Ph.D. Accounting (placed at Ohio State University, 2006)
Suning Zhang, Ph.D. Accounting (placed at George Mason University, 2006)
Zining Li, Ph.D. Accounting
Timothy Shields, Ph.D. Accounting.
Lakshmana Kumar Krishna-Moorthy, Ph.D. Accounting
Dawn Sargent, M.S. Statistics
TEACHING:
Undergraduate
ACCT 3001: Introduction to Managerial Accounting
Average Teaching Evaluation on a 7-point scale for 12 sections from 2001-2005: 5.85
Evening MBA Core
MBA 6035: Managerial Accounting
Average teaching evaluation for 2 sections in 2005: 5.89
MBA Elective
ACCT 6320: Advanced Managerial Accounting
This is a course that I designed and developed at the request of the MBA program
Average teaching evaluation for 5 sections from 2004 – 2006: 6.0
Executive MBA:
Managerial Accounting (China Program): (1 section in 2005 and will teach in Spring 07): 5.8
Ph.D.
Empirical Accounting Research Seminar 1: Co-taught with Prof. Pervin Shroff (2005)
Empirical Accounting Research Seminar II: Co-teaching with Prof. Ivy Zhang (2006)

DISTINCTIONS & AWARDS
Award Awarded by Year
McKnight Summer Research Grant McKnight Foundation 2006
W. Edward and Kay M. Hastings Graduate Scholarship Penn State 2000
FASB Ph.D. Program FASB 2000
Edward & Susan Wilson Graduate Scholarship in Business Penn State 1999
AAA Doctoral Consortium Fellow AAA 1999
Big 10 Doctoral Consortium (Northwestern Univ.) Big 10 1998
Doctoral Internationalization Consortium in Accounting CIBER 1998
G. Kenneth Nelson Graduate Fellowship Penn State 1997 - 2000
Executive Education Doctoral Fellowship Penn State 1996 - 1999
All India Merit List – 15 TH rank -Final ICWAI 1987
All India Merit List – 44 TH rank -Final ICAI 1987
All India Merit List – 26 TH rank -Inter ICAI 1985
PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE
ACADEMIC
Univerity of Minnesota
Carlson School of Management
Teaching Specialist Fall ‘01
Pennsylvania State University
Research Assistant
Prof. Bin Ke Fall ’00 – Spring ‘01
Prof. Orie E. Barron Fall ’98 – Spring ‘00
Prof. James C. McKeown & Prof. Jane F. Mutchler Fall ’97 - Spring ‘98
Teaching Assistant Fall ’96 – Spring’97
Graduate Lecturer Summers of 1997 - 2000
PROFESSIONAL
Sun Clutches India Pvt. Ltd. Project Manager June 1995 – July 1996
Madras, India.
Middle East Switchgear Industries Finance Manager Jan. 1993 – June 1995
Ltd., Sharjah, U.A.E.
Sridhar & Santhanam Partner Oct. 1991 – Sep. 1992
Chartered Accountants
Madras, India. Audit Manager/Associate Oct. 1987 – Sep. 1991
Trainee under CA rules July 1984 – Sep. 1987