Pervin ShroffAssociate Professor

Pervin Shroff
CSOM Accounting Department
3-123 CarlSMgmt
321 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN  55455
Phone: 612/626-1570
shrof003@umn.edu


Education
PhD, 1992, accounting, Columbia University
ACS, 1985, Institute of Company Secretaries of India
ACMA, 1984, Institute of Cost and Management Accountants, London
ACA, 1981, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
LLB, 1979, labor and cooperation, Bombay University
BCom, 1976, accounting and auditing, Bombay University

Research

Current Research
Capital market-based accounting
Role of accounting in security valuation
Earnings management


Publications

Major Publications

  • "Using Forecasts of Earnings to Simultaneously Estimate Growth and the Rate of Return on Equity Investment," Pervin Shroff, Peter Easton, Gary Taylor, and Theodore Sougiannis, Journal of Accounting Research (June 2002).
  • "The Relation Between Aggregate Earnings and Security Returns over Long Intervals," Pervin Shroff, Contemporary Accounting Research (Spring 2002).
  • "Permanent and Transitory Earnings, Accounting Recording Lag, and the Earnings Coefficient," Pervin Shroff, Peter Easton, and Gary Taylor, Review of Accounting Studies (December 2000).
  • "Firm Undervaluation and Decisions Related to Repurchase Tender Offers: An Empirical Investigation," Pervin Shroff and Ranjan DMello, Journal of Finance (October 2000).
  • "Determinants of the Returns-Earnings Correlation," Pervin Shroff, Contemporary Accounting Research (Fall 1995).
  • "Changes Versus Levels in Earnings as Explanatory Variables for Returns: Some Theoretical Considerations," Pervin Shroff and James Ohlson, Journal of Accounting Research (Autumn 1992).
  • "Properties of Accrual Income, Cash Flow, and Security Return: An Interpretive Exercise," Pervin Shroff, Issues in Accounting Education (November 1998).

Instruction

Courses

Fall, 2009
CHMB 5801 Financial Accounting Sec.  001
ACCT 8801 Empirical Research in Capital Markets Sec.  001


Service

Current Administrative Appointments

  • PhD Coordinator, Recruiting Committee

Scholarly Service and Honors

  • 6.0 Club for Teaching Excellence, Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley, 1996
  • Pacesetter's Award for Best Undergraduate Teacher, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, 1995