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Richard Frankel


Professor of Accounting


Areas of Expertise:

Accounting - Financial Reporting

Research interests:

Accounting-based valuation and voluntary disclosure

Academic/professional activities:

Refereed Journals: Accounting and Business Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Acounting and Economics,
Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting, Review of Accounting Studies, The Accounting Review
Associate Editor: Journal of Accounting and Economics

Awards/honors:

Sloan School Teacher of the Year, 2004-2005
American Accounting Association, Notable Contribution Award (with Charles Lee), 2003
Sloan School Teacher of the Year, 2001-2002
Sloan School Excellence in Teaching Award, 2000-2001
M.B.A. Student Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Michigan, 1997
First Place Award, I/B/E/S 25th Anniversary Global Expectation Research Competition, 1996
First Place Award, Chicago Quantitative Alliance Earnings Expectation Research Competition, 1995
Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (Q-group) Grant, 1995

Personal interests:

Accounting teaching and research

Richard Frankel

  Professor Frankel has taught at Olin since 2005. Prior to that he was a professor at the MIT Sloan school of Management and the University of Michigan. At Michigan and MIT, he received the MBA Student Awards for Teaching Excellence. His principal teaching interest is financial accounting and reporting. His research focuses on valuation using accounting numbers and on corporate managers' use of conference calls, earnings forecasts, and pro-forma earnings.

Email: frankel@wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-6431

Ph.D. 1993, Stanford University
M.A.S. 1988, University of Illinois
B.S. 1987, University of Illinois
C.P.A. 1987, University of Illinois