Surya Janakiraman

Ph.D. - Accounting
University of Pennsylvania - 1994

M.A. - Accounting
University of Pennsylvania - 1991

M.B.A. - Accounting & Finance
Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta - 1985

B.Tech. - Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras - 1981

Regulations Fair Disclosure and Analysts' First Forecast Horizon With S. Radhakrishnan and R. Szwejkowski. Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance. 22.2. (2007): 339-378. 2007 - Publication

Sticky Costs at Service Firms. With M. Anderson, R. D. Banker, and T. Chen. Collected Abstracts of the 30th European Accounting Association Congress. Lisbon: 2007. 232. 2007 - Publication

Cost Behavior and Fundamental Analysis of SG&A Costs. With M. Anderson, R.D. Banker, and R. Huang. Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance. 22.1. (2007): 1-28. 2007 - Publication

Regulations Fair Disclosure and Analysts' First Forecast Horizon. With S. Radhakrishnan and R. Szwejkowski. Conference on Accounting Dynamism: Research on Recent Events, Corporate Governance, Regulation and Disclosure. Vincent Ross Institute of Accounting Research. 2006. 2006 - Publication

Sticky Behavior of SG&A Costs and Fundamental Analysis. With M. Anderson, R.D. Banker, and R. Huang. American Accounting Association Management Accounting Section Mid-Year Research Conference. Scottsdale, Arizona: January 2005. 2005 - Publication

Sticky Behavior of SG&A Costs. With M. Anderson, R.D. Banker, and R. Huang. Collected Abstracts of the 28th European Accounting Association Congress. Goteborg, Sweden: May 2005. 2005 - Publication

A Balanced Scorecard Analysis of Performance Metrics. With R.D. Banker, H. Chang, and C. Konstans. European Journal of Operational Research. 154.2. (2004): 423-436. 2004 - Publication

Value Implications of Changes in SG&A Costs when Costs are Sticky. With M. Anderson, R.D. Banker, and R. Huang. Proceedings of American Accounting Association's Annual Meeting. Orlando: 2004. 169. 2004 - Publication

Associate Professor of Accounting
University of Texas at Dallas [2004–Present]

Assistant Professor of Accounting
University of Texas at Dallas [1998–2004]

Assistant Professor of Industrial Administration
Carnegie Mellon University [1993–1998]

Instructor
Carnegie Mellon University [1992–1993]

Invited Presentations in Academic Institutions

• 2002: Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University.
• 2001: Graduate School of Business, Texas A&M University; Price College of Business, The University of Oklahoma.
• 1998: School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas.
• 1993: School of Business Administration, University of Michigan.
• 1992: School of Management, Yale University; Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago; Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University; Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester; School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University; Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University; Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University.

Conference Presentations

2008: Management Accounting Section Research Conference, Long Beach, California
Discussant

American Accounting Association’s annual meeting, Anaheim, California.
Discussant.

2007: 30th Annual Congress of European Accounting Association, Lisbon, Portugal
Discussant, Global Management Accounting Research Symposium, Michigan State University, June 17, 2007.

2005: Management Accounting Section Research Conference, Tampa
Discussant

2004: Management Accounting Section Research Conference, Miami.
Performance assessment and measurement system: Uses, impacts and effectiveness.
Discussant for three papers in the session on “Performance evaluation” American Accounting Association’s annual meeting, Orlando.

2002: 25th European Accounting Association Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark.
A balanced scorecard analysis of performance metrics.
Performance measures for plant managers; Responsibility accounting revisited.
Environmental, strategic and structural determinants of information systems design choices.

2001: European Accounting Association Congress, Athens, Greece.
Economic drivers of decisions to use ERP: An empirical investigation.
The Texas Symposium on executive compensation, The University of Texas at Dallas.
Are plant managers responsible for costs or profits?
The Texas Symposium on balanced scorecard. The University of Texas at Dallas.
Drivers of CFO’s satisfaction with performance measurement system.

2000: The Annual meeting of The American Accounting Association, Philadelphia.
Are selling and general administrative costs sticky?
23rd European Accounting Association Congress, Munich, Germany.
Are selling and general administrative costs sticky?

1999: Sixth European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Copenhagen,
Denmark.
Estimation of monotone and concave or convex functions.
Management Accounting Research Conference, Orlando, Florida.
Stock option awards and exercise behavior of CEOs: An empirical analysis.

Ph.D. Dissertation Committee

• 2009: Dissertation committee member for Lewis Miller
• 2007: Dissertation committee member for Sebahattin Demirken (Current position: Assistant professor, Northeastern University); Dissertation committee member for Haeyoung Shin (Current position: Assistant professor, University of Houston Clear lake)
• 2006: Dissertation committee member for Rong Huang (Current position: Assistant Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York), Haeyong Shin.
• 2005: Dissertation Committee member for Ozer Asdemir, Rong Huang
• 2004: Dissertation committee member for Ozer Asdemir, Rabih Moussawi
• 2002 – 2004: Co-chairman of dissertation committee for Tony Chen (Current position: Assistant professor, Georgia State University)
• 2000 – 2002: Thesis committee member for Raj Mashruwala (Current position: Assistant professor, Washington University, St. Louis).
• 1996 – 1998: Thesis committee member for Hyunkoo Lee (Current position: Assistant professor, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology). Thesis committee member for Pirooz Movdawala (Current position: Group Manager, Godrej & Boyce, Bombay, India).
• 1995 –1997: Thesis committee member for Jinbae Kim (Current position: Assistant professor, Boston University).

$ 100,000 - Financial Executives Research Foundation [1998–2001]