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Shiva Sivaramakrishnan

Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Accounting
Academic Director of Healthcare Programming
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713-348-4653 ks30@rice.edu
Shiva Sivaramakrishnan
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Shiva Sivaramakrishnan is the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor in Accounting at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University. He received his B. Tech in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, an MBA from Xavier Institute, Jamshedpur, India and a Ph.D. in accounting and information systems from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Shiva joined the Rice faculty in 2012. Prior to his current position, he has held tenured faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon University, Texas A&M University and the University of Houston. Most recently, he held the Peggy Pittman Eminent Scholar Chair at the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. He has taught courses in management accounting and financial reporting at undergraduate and graduate levels and in MBA and Executive MBA programs, and has won awards for teaching excellence. He has a coauthored a popular text book on managerial accounting.

Shiva’s research interests span both management accounting and financial reporting areas. In management accounting, his research deals with issues relating to planning and control in organizations. In the financial reporting area, his research relates to the information intermediary role of financial analysts, voluntary disclosure, and earnings management. His work has appeared in premier journals in accounting, finance, management, and information systems and has been awarded for his contributions to management accounting. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory and Review Board of The Accounting Review, is a Senior Editor for the “Interface between POM and Accounting” subsection of the Production and Operations Management (POM) Journal.

Teaching Interests: 

  • Management Accounting
  • Financial Reporting
  • Planning and Control in Organizations
  • Role of Financial Analysts
  • Voluntary Disclosure
  • Earnings Management

Research Interests: 

  • Management Accounting
  • Financial Reporting
  • Planning and Control in Organizations
  • Role of Financial Analysts
  • Voluntary Disclosure
  • Earnings Management

Intellectual Contributions

Journal Article
Haijin Lin, Ramji Balakrishnan and K. Sivaramakrishnan. Screening Talent: Absolute or Percentile Thresholds? Journal of Accounting Research, 58: 831-868.
Journal Article
George Drymiotes and K. Sivaramakrishnan. Strategic Director Appointments Journal of Accounting Research. Forthcoming.
Journal Article
Tong Lu, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yanyan Wang, and Lisheng Yu. The Real Effects of Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China. Production and Operations Management. Forthcoming
Journal Article
Tharindra Ranasinghe, K. Sivaramakrishnan, and Lin Yi. Hedging, Hedge Accounting, and Earnings Predictability Review of Accounting Studies. Forthcoming.
Journal Article
Floros, Ioannis V., Nandu J. Nagarajan, and Shiva Sivaramakrishnan (2019). "The certification role of insider participation in PIPEs." Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting: 1-31.
Journal Article
Balakrishnan R, Drymiotes G, Sivaramakrishnan K (2019). The Effects of Biasing Performance Measurement Systems on Incentives and Retention Decisions. Contemporary Accounting Research, 36, 1098-121.
Journal Article
Tong Lu, K. Sivaramakrishnan. Expensing Versus Capitalization (2018). Contemporary Accounting Research. 35,1262-78.
Journal Article
Andrew Jackson, Brian Rountree, and K. Sivaramakrishnan (2017). Earnings Co-movements and Earnings Manipulation. Review of Accounting Studies, 22: 1340-1365.
Journal Article
Praveen Kumar, Nisan Langberg, Jacob Oded and K. Sivaramakrishnan (2017). Voluntary Disclosure and Strategic Stock Repurchases. Journal of Accounting and Economics 63: 207-230.
Journal Article
Praveen Kumar, Nisan Langberg, and K. Sivaramakrishnan (2016). Voluntary Disclosure with Informed Trading in the IPO Market. Journal of Accounting Research, 54: 1365-1394.

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