Troy

Pollard

Associate Professor of Accounting

Director of MAcc Program, John L. and Margaret E. Rhoads Chair in Accounting

Culverhouse School of Accountancy

  • 328
  • Alston Hall
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Research Interests

  • Financial Reporting, International Accounting Standards

Education

Ph.D., The University of Colorado at Boulder
M.Acc., Weber State University
B.Acc., Weber State University

Biography

Best Paper Award, AAA – Southeastern (2019).

Research Advisory Board Grant, Center for Audit Quality. (2017).

Best Paper Award, AAA – Western. (2016).

Gerald Hart Doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Colorado. (2012).

KPMG Teaching Award, University of Colorado. (2012).

LEAD Graduate Teacher, University of Colorado. (2012).

Selected Publications

Lopez, T., T. Pollard, A. Reitenga, and S. Stinson. 2023. Downsizing Decisions: The Joint Influence of Equity Incentives and Behavioral Biases. Journal of Business, Finance, and Accounting 50 (9/10): 1779-1807.

Davis, T., T. Lopez, and T. Pollard. 2023. The Joint Influence of Sarbanes-Oxley and FAS 123R on Financial Misreporting. Journal of Business, Finance, and Accounting 50 (9/10): 1836-1866.

DeZoort, T., and T. Pollard. 2023. An Evaluation of Root Cause Analysis as a Prescribed Core Competency for Internal Auditors. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 42 (3)

Gunny, K., and T. Pollard. 2023. The Role of Earnings Management via Real Activities and Accrual Management in PIPEs. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 61 (2): 481-500.

DeZoort, T., M. Doxey, and T. Pollard. 2021. Root Cause Analysis and its Effect on Auditors’ Judgements in an Integrated Audit. Contemporary Accounting Research 38 (2): 1204-1230.

Cussatt, M., T. Pollard, and M. Stone. 2019. The Usefulness of Accounting Information Resulting from Standard-setting Compromises: The Pension Accounting Case. Accounting Horizons 33(4): 145-165.

Buchheit, S., D. Dalton, T. Pollard, and S. Stinson. 2019. Crowdsourcing Intelligent Research Participants: A Student versus MTurk Comparison. Behavioral Research in Accounting 31(2): 93-106.

Cussatt, M., L. Huang, and T. Pollard. 2018. Accounting Quality under U.S. GAAP vs. IFRS: The Case of Germany. Journal of International Accounting Research 17(3): 21-41.

Buchheit, S., M. Doxey, T. Pollard, and S. Stinson. 2018. A Technical Guide to Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in Behavioral Accounting Research. Behavioral Research in Accounting 30(1): 111-122.

DeZoort, T., T. Pollard, and E. Schnee. 2018. A Study of Perceived Ethicality of Low Corporate Effective Tax Rates. Accounting Horizons 32(1): 87-104.

Abbott, L., K. Gunny, and T. Pollard. 2017. The Impact of Litigation Risk on Audit Pricing Behavior: Evidence from Reverse Mergers. Contemporary Accounting Research 34(2): 1103-1127.

Burnett, B., B. Jorgensen, and T. Pollard. 2017. The Stock Market Reaction to Losing or Gaining Foreign Private Issuer Status. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 36(2): 101-118.

Pollard, T. 2016. Sneaking in the Backdoor? An Evaluation of Reverse Mergers and IPOs. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 47(2): 305-341.

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