UMass Boston

Grad Prog Dir/Assoc Professor

Sangwan Kim

Department:
Accounting & Finance
Title:
Graduate Program Director/Associate Professor
Location:
McCormack Hall Floor 05 00206
Phone:
617.287.3172

Area of Expertise

Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis, and Equity Valuation

Degrees

Ph.D. in Business Administration (Accounting), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School

B.B.A. (Business Administration) & B.A. in Economics (Applied Statistics), Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

 

Professional Publications & Contributions

"The Information Spillover Role of Corporate Spin-offs in Financing Activities: Evidence from Equity Sales by Private Firms through Regulation D" (with Jangwon Suh), Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Forthcoming. 

“Does Corporate Social Responsibility Play a Moderating Role in Trading Silence prior to Bad News Earnings Announcements?” (with Atreya Chakraborty, Lucia Silva Gao, and Rongbing Liu), Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance, 34 (3), 2023: 282–301. 

“Does Revenue-Expense Matching Play a Differential Role in Analysts’ Earnings and Revenue Forecasts?” (with Robert Kim), The British Accounting Review, 53 (5), 2021: 101033. 

“The Role of the Business Press in Creating and Disseminating Information around Earnings Announcements” (with Joshua Coyne and Kevin Kim), European Accounting Review, 29 (4), 2020: 723–751. 

“Does Financial Statement Comparability Mitigate Delayed Trading Volume before Earnings Announcements?” (with Junwoo Kim and Robert Kim), Journal of Business Research, 107, 2020: 62–75. 

“Analysts, Taxes and the Information Environment” (with Andrew Schmidt and Kelly Wentland), Journal of the American Taxation Association, 42 (1), 2020: 103–131. 

“When Does Comparability Better Enhance Relevance? Policy Implications from Empirical Evidence” (with Robert Kim and Prianka Musa), Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 37 (5), 2018: 436–457. 

“Cross-Sectional Variation in Revenue-Expense Relation and Cost of Equity,” Managerial Finance, 44 (11), 2018: 1311–1329. 

“Earnings Comparability and Informed Trading” (with Steve Lim), Finance Research Letters, 20, 2017: 130–136. 

“Does Trading Volume Increase or Decrease prior to Earnings Announcements?” (with Steve Lim), Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, 15, 2017: 137–183. 

“The Benefit of Labor Cost Disclosure: Evidence from Analyst Earnings Forecast Accuracy" (with KoEun Park, Joshua Rosett, and Yong-Chul Shin), Managerial Finance, 43 (5), 2017: 510–527. 

“The Disappearing Abnormal Returns to a Fundamental Signal Strategy” (with John Dorey and Yong-Chul Shin), Managerial Finance, 43 (4), 2017: 406–424. (2018 Managerial Finance Highly Commended Award)

 

Additional Information

Deloitte Scholarly Award, Korean Accounting Association (2020)

Dean’s Excellence in Research Award, University of Massachusetts Boston (2020, 2017)

AAA/FARS Midyear Meeting Scholarship (2015)

AAA/Grant Thornton Doctoral Dissertation Award (2012)

AAA/FARS Doctoral Consortium Fellow (2012)