Professor Ball will share the latest thinking about earnings and stock prices.
Event Details
Professor Ball will incorporate his knowledge of international accounting and finance, market efficiency and investment strategies to share the latest thinking about earnings and stock prices.
Professor Ball won the 1968 American Accounting Association's inaugural award for "An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers". This article revolutionized the understanding of corporate disclosure on share prices, and of earnings releases in particular. This article is credited with laying the foundation for much of modern accounting literature.
Ball's"Anomalies in Relationships between Securities' Yields and Yield surrogates" is the first academic reference to systematic anomalies in the theory of efficient markets.
$7 before 02/18/2016
$10 at the door
*As a reminder, registration will close at 12 pm on 02/18/2016. You may register at the door the night of the event.
Speaker Profiles
Professor Ray Ball (Speaker) '72
Sidney Davidson Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting, Chicago Booth
http://http://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/b/ray-ball
Professor Ball received an MBA, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago Booth.
Ball was elected into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2009.
In 2012 Ray Ball was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Accounting Association.
He is a Bulls fan, and enjoys reading, wine, clocks, and cooking