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Ray Ball: Vitae Summary Academic Appointments. Ray Ball is the Sidney Davidson Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting in the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. Research. Mr. Ball’s research areas include: Financial reporting and disclosure Earnings and stock prices Analysis of financial information International accounting Investment strategies Market efficiency The institutions of a market economy His research with Philip Brown, “An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers,” Journal of Accounting Research (1968), received the American Accounting Association's inaugural award for Seminal Contributions to the Accounting Literature. The award stated: "No other paper has been cited as often or has played so important a role in the development of accounting research during the past thirty years." This research revealed for the first time how information about firm performance typically is incorporated in earnings and share prices. It revolutionized our understanding of the impact of corporate disclosure on share prices, and of earnings releases in particular, and laid the foundation for much of the modern accounting literature. Ball also is the author of "Anomalies in Relationships between Securities' Yields and Yield-surrogates," Journal of Financial Economics (1978), the first academic acknowledgement of systematic anomalies in the theory of efficient markets. Editorships. He edited the Journal of Accounting Research from 2000 to 2015 and the Journal of Accounting and Economics from 1986 to 2000. From 1976-1979 he was founding editor of the Australian Journal of Management, where he currently is a member of the Editorial Board. He has been associate editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting and the Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics. Awards. Mr. Ball was awarded honorary degrees [Doctor Honoris Causa] by the Helsinki School of Economics, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the University of Queensland, the University of London, and the University of New South Wales. He was a Fulbright Scholar and a Ford Foundation Fellow. The American Accounting Association honored him with its Seminal Contributions to the Accounting Literature award (with Philip Brown), as its Distinguished International Lecturer for 1999, as its 2003 Outstanding Accounting Educator, as its 2012 joint Presidential Scholar, and with the FARS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. He was elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Australian Accounting Hall of Fame in 2018. With Philip Brown, he received the Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation in 2019. Qualifications. Mr. Ball studied Accounting at the University of NSW (Australia) and graduated MBA and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. He is a CPA and Fellow of CPA Australia, and in 2015 he became the eighth Honorary Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Corporate and Professional. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Harbor Funds, and chairs its audit committee. Ball serves on the Financial Reporting Faculty Advisory Group of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the Advisory Board of the Center for Accounting Research and Education at University of Notre Dame, and the Australian School of Business Alumni Leaders Network. He has served on FASB’s Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council and the Shadow Financial Regulation Committee, and as a Professor in the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management. He is an Academic Affiliate of the Analysis group and has extensive experience testifying on a range of accounting, finance and economics issues. Ray Ball: Curriculum Vitae December 2019 Home: Office: 1448 N. Lake Shore Drive Booth School of Business Chicago, IL 60610 University of Chicago USA 5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue Tel: (312) 266 4817 Chicago IL 60637, USA Mobile: (312) 952 0101 Tel: (773) 834.5941 Assistant: (773) 702.7460 Citizenship: Australia and U.S. Fax: (773) 926.0940 [email protected] ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT: University of Chicago, Booth School of Business: Sidney Davidson Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting OTHER POSITIONS: Advisory Group, Financial Reporting Faculty, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, 2007-present Council of Academic Advisors, Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney Australia, 1996-present Advisory Board, The Center for Accounting Research and Education, University of Notre Dame, 2006- present Australian School of Business Alumni Leaders Network, 2008-present Academic Affiliate, Analysis Group/Economics, 2000-present PREVIOUS POSITIONS: University of Rochester: Wesray Professor of Business Administration, 1986-2000 London Business School: Professor and Visiting Professor of Accounting, 1996-2002 Australian Graduate School of Management: Foundation Professor, 1976-86 University of Queensland: Professor of Accounting & Business Finance, 1972-76 University of Chicago: Assistant Professor of Accounting and Finance (1969-72); Visiting Professor of Accounting (1976), Visiting Professor of Finance (1985). Loyola University of Chicago: Instructor in Accounting, 1968-69 Professor in the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, 1998-2007 University of NSW, Australia: Tutor in Accounting, 1966; Part-time Tutor 1964-65 Keio University, Tokyo: Visiting Professor of Business, June-July 1990 Rheem (Australia) Pty. Ltd., Industrial Trainee, 1962-65 IBM (Australia) Pty. Ltd., Analyst/Programmer Scheme, Summer 1966 Director, Micromedical Industries Pty Limited, 1987-93 Advisory Board, Sensory Networks, 2004-06 Member of Board of Trustees and Audit Committee Chair, Harbor Funds, 2006-19 Shadow Financial Regulation Committee, 2008-2010 Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC), advisory body of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), 2009. EDUCATION: B. Commerce, Accounting (1st Class Honours, University Medal), University of NSW, 1965 M.B.A., Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1968 Ph.D. in Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1972 HONOURS AND AWARDS: Doctor Honoris Causa, Helsinki School of Economics, 1991 Doctor Honoris Causa, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1994 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Queensland, 2002 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of London, 2008 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of New South Wales, 2010 Awarded the American Accounting Association’s inaugural award for Seminal Contributions to the Accounting Literature (awarded no more than once every three years), for "An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers" (co-authored in 1968 with Philip Brown). The award stated: "No other paper has been cited as often or has played so important a role in the development of accounting research during the past thirty years.” The paper received the Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation in 2019 https://jacobslevycenter.wharton.upenn.edu/2019-prize/, awarded biennially “to recognize excellence in quantitative research that has contributed to a particular innovation in the practice of finance.” The paper also received the Outstanding Contribution to Accounting and Finance Research Literature Award from the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand in 1996 American Accounting Association: Distinguished International Lecturer, 1999; Outstanding Accounting Educator, 2003; Presidential Scholar (joint with Philip Brown), 2012; Financial Accounting Research Section Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014. Fulbright Scholar, 1966-70 Graduate School of Business Fellow, University of Chicago, 1966-67 Ford Foundation Fellow, 1967-68 Beta Gamma Sigma, 1990 Business and Public Policy Scholar, Booth School of Business, 2009-10 Awarded Honorary Membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, 2015 Elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame, 2009 Elected to the Australian Accounting Hall of Fame, 2018 PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: CPA Australia: CPA and Fellow ACADEMIC JOURNAL EDITING: Journal of Accounting Research: Editor, 2000-2015; Associate Editor, 1972-1987 Journal of Accounting and Economics: Editor, 1986-2000; Associate Editor, 1979-1986 Australian Journal of Management: Foundation Editor, 1976-79; Editorial Board, 2010-present Accounting Research Network: Financial Accounting eJournal Advisory Board, 1996-present Journal of Banking and Finance: Associate Editor, 1983-88 European Accounting Review: Editorial Board, 2002-2011 Journal of Business Finance and Accounting: Editorial Board, 1985-88 Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics (formerly Asia Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics): Associate Editor, 1999-2010 PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS Share Markets and Portfolio Theory (University of Queensland Press, 1980, second edn. 1989), co-edited with Philip Brown, Frank Finn and R. R. Officer. The Economics of Accounting Policy Choice (McGraw-Hill, 1992), co-edited with Clifford W. Smith Jr. Financial Statement Analysis (McGraw-Hill, 1994), co-edited with S. P. Kothari. PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES a. Peer Reviewed "Some Preliminary Findings on the Association Between the Earnings of a Firm, Its Industry, and The Economy" (with Philip Brown) Journal of Accounting Research 5, Supplement, 1967, pp. 55-77. "An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers" (With Philip Brown) Journal of Accounting Research 6, 1968, pp.159-78, reprinted in several collections. "Portfolio Theory and Accounting"