Sunil Dutta
Professor | William D. Crawford Chair in Taxation and Accounting | Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES
Areas of Expertise (5)
Incentive Contracts
Performance Measures
Financial Disclosures
Cost of Capital
Earnings Management
About
Sunil Dutta is the William D. Crawford Chair in Taxation and Accounting at the Haas School of Business. He received his BS in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and his MBA in accounting and PhD in business administration from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.
His recent research activities have focused on two broad themes. The first theme investigates the use of accounting information for internal decision making and managerial performance evaluation purposes. The second research stream focuses on the interaction between companies’ financial reporting choices and pricing of their securities in capital markets. Dutta has published numerous articles on these and other related topics in major academic journals, such as Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Review of Accounting Studies. He is a member of the editorial boards of The Accounting Review and Review of Accounting Studies. He won the Best Paper Award of the Review of Accounting Studies Conference in 1999 and 2001.
Dutta has extensive experience teaching financial and managerial accounting to MBA students and corporate executives. He has been rated an outstanding professor by the students.
Education (3)
University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management: PhD, Business Administration
University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management: MBA, Accounting
Indian Institute of Technology: BS, Engineering
Links (3)
Honors & Awards (5)
Best Paper Award, Review of Accounting Studies Conference
2001
Best Paper Award, Review of Accounting Studies Conference
1999
Schwabacher Fellowship
1998 – 1999
Club 6 Member, Haas School of Business
(for teaching excellence, based on student evaluations)
Junior Faculty Research Grant, UC Berkeley
1996
Selected External Service & Affiliations (4)
- Foundations and Trends in Accounting: Editor, 2016-2021
- Management Science : Associate Editor, 2006 - 2015
- Editorial Boards: The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies
- Reviewer: The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics
Positions Held (1)
At Haas since 1996
2019 – present, William D. Crawford Chair in Taxation and Accounting, Haas School of Business 2008 – 2019, Joan and Egon von Kaschnitz Distinguished Professor of Accounting and International Business, Haas School of Business 2009 – 2013, Director of the PhD Program 2002 – 2008, Joan and Egon von Kaschnitz Distinguished Associate Professor of Accounting and International Business, Haas School of Business 1996 – 2002, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business 1994 – 1996, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia
Selected Papers & Publications (7)
Dynamic Effects of Information Disclosure on Investment
Journal of Accounting Research
Sunil Dutta and Alexander Nezlobin
2017
Identifying Conditional Conservatism in Accounting Data: Theory and Evidence
The Accounting Review
Sunil Dutta and Panos, N. Patatoukas
2017
Information disclosure, firm growth, and the cost of capital
Journal of Financial Economics
Sunil Dutta and Alexander Nezlobin
2017
Earnings Management and Dynamic Incentives
Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting
S. Dutta and Q. Fan
2016
Equilibrium Earnings Management and Managerial Compensation in a Multi-period Agency Setting
Review of Accounting Studies
Dutta, S., Fan, Q.
2014
Incentives for Innovation and Centralized versus Delegated Capital Budgeting
Journal of Accounting and Economics
Dutta S., Fan, Q.
2012
Decentralized Capacity Management and Internal Pricing
Review of Accounting Studies
Dutta, S., Reichelstein S.
2010
Teaching (4)
Financial Accounting
MBA 202
Financial Accounting
EWMBA 202
Analytical Research in Accounting
PHDBA 229C
Doctoral Seminar in Accounting
PHDBA 229S
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