Mark Zmijewski conducts research on valuation, security analysis, and the effect of financial disclosures on capital market participants and security prices. His research has been funded by the SEC and Financial Reporting Institute, and he has received two fellowships from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His work has appeared in several notable journals, including the Journal of Financial Statement Analysis; the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance; the Journal of Accounting Research; Journal of Accounting and Economics; Contemporary Accounting Research; and the Journal of Business Research. Zmijewski has been an associate editor for the Accounting Review, and served on the editorial boards for the Journal of Accounting Research and the Accounting Review.
Zmijewski was a teaching assistant and assistant professor of accounting at State University of New York at Buffalo and a course director at York University prior to joining the GSB. He has experience consulting on such issues as measuring damages in a variety of litigation contexts and industries; measuring marginal, incremental, variable, direct costs and profits; revenue recognition; assessing bankruptcy and solvency; preparing and assessing business plans; measuring interest rates and rates of returns and risk; assessing the effect of information disclosures on security prices; and assessing due diligence. He has applied his expertise in a broad range of areas, including computer hardware and software, credit card and credit card security, banking, securities companies, cameras and film, retail, automobile, airline, cosmetics, energy, and consumer products, to name a few.
In addition to being on several dissertation committees, he is an ad hoc referee for nearly a dozen journals.
Zmijewski received the 1999 Hillel J. Einhorn Excellence in Teaching Award from the GSB, a 1988 Emory Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching from the GSB, and a 1984 Competitive Manuscript Award from the American Accounting Association. In addition, he was inducted into Beta Alpha Psi Honorary Accounting Society in 1981 and Beta Gamma Sigma Honorary Business Society in 1980. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and the American Finance Association.
He earned a bachelor's degree in 1976, an MBA in 1981 in accounting, and a PhD with a major in accounting and minors in economics and finance in 1983, all from State University of New York at Buffalo. He joined Chicago Booth in 1984.
Selected Publications
With Richard Leftwich, "Contemporaneous Announcements of Dividends and Earnings," Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance (1994).
With A. Alford, J. Jones, R. Leftwich, "The Relative Informativeness of Accounting Disclosures in Different Countries," Journal of Accounting Research (Supplement 1993).
With A. Alford and J. Jones, "Extensions and Violations of the Statutory SEC Form 10-K Filing Requirements," Journal of Accounting and Economics (1993).
With P. Easton, "SEC Form 10-K/10-Q Reports and Annual Reports to Shareholders: Reporting Lags and Squared Market Model Prediction Errors," Journal of Accounting Research (winter 1993).
With P. Easton, "Cross-Sectional Variation in the Stock Market Response to the Announcement of Accounting Earnings," Journal of Accounting and Economics (1989).
