Lawrence D. Brown
J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of Accountancy
School of Accountancy
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
Room: 504, RCB Building
Phone: 404-413-7205
E-Mail: ldb@gsu.edu
Personal Web Page: http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwacc/
Faculty/lbrown/lbrown.htm

EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of Rochester
M.B.A., University of Chicago
B.S., SUNY - Buffalo
SPECIALIZATIONS:
Financial accounting
Financial statement analysis
Capital markets research
Earnings forecasting
Stock Market Analysis
Corporate Governance
Brown is the recipient of the American Accounting Association’s Outstanding Accounting Educator Award for 2006. He has over 80 publications and he has made more than 160 presentations at universities and professional conferences. He has published at least two articles in each of 13 journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Finance, and Financial Analysts Journal. His 100+ media interviews and citations include: Atlanta Business Chronicle, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Barron’s, Bloomberg Forum, Bloomberg Personal Finance, Business Week, The Chicago Tribune, CFO Magazine, CNBC, Des Spiegel, The Economist, Forbes, Fortune, Institutional Investor, Investor's Business Daily, Newsweek, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Brown is a former editor of The Accounting Review, and he is an associate editor of Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. He is a member of the executive committee of the Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, and he has organized its accounting track in 1991, 1997 and 2006.

PUBLICATIONS:
  • Lawrence D. Brown (with A.S. Pinello) "To What Extent Does the Financial Reporting Process Curb Earnings Surprise Games?" Journal of Accounting Research 45 (December 2007): 947-981.
  • Lawrence D. Brown (with M.L. Caylor) "A Temporal Analysis of Quarterly Earnings Thresholds: Propensities and Valuation Consequences." The Accounting Review (April 2005): 423-440.
  • Lawrence D. Brown "The Importance of Circulating and Presenting Manuscripts: Evidence from the Accounting Literature." The Accounting Review 80 (January 2005): 55-83.
  • Lawrence D. Brown (with K. Sivakumar) "Comparing the Value Relevance of Two Operating Income Measures." Review of Accounting Studies 8 (December 2003): 561-572.
  • Lawrence D. Brown "A Temporal Analysis of Earnings Surprises: Profits versus Losses," Journal of Accounting Research 39 (September 2001): 221-241.