UMass Boston

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Surjit Tinaikar

Department:
Accounting & Finance
Title:
Department Chair
Associate Professor

Area of Expertise

Financial Reporting, Managerial Accounting, Corporate Finance and Valuation, Investments

Degrees

PhD, Accounting, University of Toronto

MS, Finance, Boston College

CFA, CFA Institute

MBA, Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi

BA, Economics, University of Bombay

Professional Publications & Contributions

  1. Accounting Based Valuation Models: What Have We Learned? with Gordon Richardson, Accounting and Finance, 2004.
  2. Outside Directors, Litigation Environment and Management Earnings Forecasts., Accounting Perspectives, 2012
  3. Voluntary Disclosure and Ownership Structure: An Analysis of Dual Class Firms. Journal of Management and Governance, 2014.
  4. Pay Performance Sensitivity and Earnings Restatements, with Kun Yu, Corporate Ownership and Control, 2014
  5. Private Control Benefits and Informative Earnings Smoothing: Evidence from Dual Class Share Firms, 2017. Journal of International Accountin Research
  6. Managerial Control Divergence and Analysts’ Information Precision, with Yong-Chul Shin and KoEun Park, 2017. Corporate Governance: An International Review.
  7. Executive Compensation Disclosure and Private Control Benefits: A Comparison of U.S. and Canadian Dual Class Firms. Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, 2017. 
  8. The Governance Role of Unions in Improving Investment Efficiency, with Yu Zhang and Yong-Chul Shin. Indian Journal of Finance and Banking, 2022
  9. Does competition exacerbate investment inefficiencies? Evidence from Japanese firms, with Bo Xu. International Review of Economics and Finance, 2023