Biography

Grace Pownall joined the Goizueta Business School faculty in the fall of 1993, and served as Accounting Area Coordinator from 1993-1998. She is currently the GBS Associate Dean and Director of Doctoral Studies. She has published research on corporate disclosure incentives and practices, and on information in global capital markets, in Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and several other journals. She has served as Associate Editor (1999-2002) and on the editorial board (2005-present) of The Accounting Review and several other journals. She also serves as ad hoc reviewer for various accounting, finance, and economics journals.

Professor Pownall served as Vice-President of the American Accounting Association (1999-2001), and Director of the AAA 1999 Doctoral Consortium. She has served in several roles in the AAA Doctoral Consortium and in the AAA New Faculty Consortium, and on several committees of the American Accounting Association, the International Accounting Section, the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, and the Accounting Programs Leadership Group. She is currently a member of the AAA Publications Committee.

Publications

• The Information Intermediary Role of Short Sellers (Co-author: P. Simko) The Accounting Review, July 2005
• Shareholder vs. Stakeholder Focused Japanese Companies: Firm-Characteristics and Accounting Valuation (Co-author: K. Ely) Contemporary Accounting Research, December 2002
• Implications of Accounting Research for the SEC's Consideration of International Accounting Standards for US Securities Offerings (Co-author: K. Schipper), Accounting Horizons, September 1999
• How Frequently Do Managers Disclose Prospective Earnings Information? (Co-authors: C. Kile & G. Waymire), The Journal of Financial Statement Analysis, Spring 1998
• Interdependencies in the Global Markets for Capital and Information: The Case of Smithkline-Beecham (Co-author: C. Frost), Accounting Horizons, March 1996
• Accounting Disclosure Practices in the U.S. and the U.K. (Co-author: C. Frost), Journal of Accounting Research, Spring 1994
• A Comparison of the Stock Price Response to Earnings-related Accounting Disclosures in the U.S. and the U.K. (Co-author: C. Frost), Contemporary Accounting Research, Summer 1994
• The Stock Price Effects of Alternative Types of Management Earnings Forecasts (Co-authors: C. Wasley & G. Waymire) The Accounting Review, October 1993

Working Papers

• What Performance Measure Attributes Do Investors Value Most? (Co-authors J. Barton and B. Hansen) March 2007
• Legal and Reputational Bonding to Enhanced Minority Investor Protection by Firms from Emerging Markets (Co-authors: C. Frost and E. Gordon) January 2007
• Factors Explaining Delisting Incidence: General Market Conditions, Firm Fundamentals, and Costs of Regulatory Compliance (Co-authors: B. Hansen and X. Wang) May 2007

Areas of Specialization

• Information and Global Capital Markets
• Voluntary Disclosure Incentives and Practices
• International Accounting

Academic Background
Ph.D., Accounting and Economics, University of Chicago, 1985
MBA, University of Chicago, 1983
B.S., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1980