Michael Smith

Michael Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. He specializes in corporate governance, financial reporting, and strategic accounting issues.

Education:

• PhD, Stanford University (1998)
• BS, University of Pennsylvania (1984)

Research Focus: His work examines critical accounting policy disclosures, earnings management practices, transfer pricing strategies, and behavioral aspects of agency relationships. He investigates how financial incentives affect employee behavior and organizational trust.

Publication Trends: Recent research focuses on modern accounting ethics, while earlier work explores taxation implications in multinational operations, information asymmetry in financial markets, and organizational remedies for underinvestment problems.