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Dr. Hodgdon accepting award for Outstanding Dissertation
in International Accounting
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Third Accounting Graduate Receives Outstanding Dissertation
Award in
International Accounting
Congratulations to Dr. Christopher Hodgdon, an accounting graduate,
for receiving the 2005 Outstanding Dissertation Award in International
Accounting presented annually by the International Accounting
Section of the American Accounting Association. Dr. Hodgdon’s
dissertation is titled “Empirical Examination of the Effect
of Firm Compliance with the Disclosure Requirements of International
Accounting Standards on the Characteristics of Analysts’ Earnings
Forecasts.” Dissertations submitted for this award are
judged on methodological rigor and the contributions they make
to the field of international accounting. The following faculty
served on Dr. Hodgdon’s Dissertation Committee: Drs. Ross
Tondkar (chair), Ajay Adhikari (the American University), Edward
Coffman, David Harless, Roxanne Spindle, and Jayaraman Vijayakumar
(V.J.).
The Outstanding Dissertation Award in International Accounting
is a worldwide award and past recipients have come from universities
in the United States, Australia, Canada, and Sweden. Virginia
Commonwealth University (VCU) is the only university having the
distinct honor of receiving this award three times since its
inception in 1984. Dr.
Ross Tondkar, a Professor of Accounting, has chaired all three
dissertations. The following list indicates the recipients
of this award, by year and affiliation of Ph.D. Program:
Year Name of Recipient Affiliation of Ph.D. Program
1984 Trevor J. Harris University of Washington
1985 No Award
1986 Betty C. Brown Virginia Polytechnic Institute & University
1987 Shahrokh M. Saudagaran University of Washington
1988 David J. Sharp Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1989 Teresa L. Conover Texas A&M University
Zelma Rebman-Huber Simon Fraser University, Canada
1990 F. Norman Shiue The George Washington University
1991 Ajay Adhikari Virginia Commonwealth University
1992 Stephen B. Salter University of South Carolina
1993 Patricia McQueen New York University
1994 Keith R. Duncan Bond University, Australia
1995 Mary A. Flanigan Virginia Commonwealth University
1996 Wayne B. Thomas Oklahoma State University
1997 Paquita Y. Davis-Friday University of Michigan
1998 Karl Albert Muller III University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1999 Jan Marton Goteburg University, Sweden
2000 Tracy S. Manley University of Arkansas
2001 Taskashi Yaekura University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2002 Ole-Kristian Hope Northwestern University
2003 Thomas A. Mathews University of Waterloo, Canada
2004 Steven Orpurt University of Chicago
2005 Christopher Hodgdon Virginia Commonwealth University
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