Susan M. Riffe Ph.D.
Education
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1992
M.B.A., Baylor University, 1986
B.B.A., Baylor University, 1985 (with Honors)
Areas of Expertise
Commercial Banking
Derivatives
Financial Disclosure and Reporting
IPO Pricing
Post Retirement Benefits
Private Firm Valuation
Courses Taught
Financial Accounting
Current Research
"IPO Pricing with Accounting Information" with Randy Beatty and Rex Thompson
"The Log-Linear Form of Stock Value Models Based on Accounting Information" with Randy Beatty and Rex Thompson
Recent Publications
"Cost/Benefit Tradeoffs Relating to Reductions in Post-Retirement Benefits in the SFAS 106 Environoment”, with Howard Bunsis, Fall 2000, Journal of Applied Business Research.
"The Method of Comparables in Tax Court Valuations of Privately-Held Firms: An Empirical Investigation", Accounting Horizons with Randy Beatty and Rex Thompson, September 1999: 177-199.
"The Valuation of Off-Balance-Sheet Financial Instrument Disclosures in the Banking Industry", Derivatives, Regulation and Banking ed. by Barry Schachter, North-Holland, 1997.
"How Firms Make Capital Expenditure Decisions: Financial Signals, Internal Cash Flows, Income Taxes and the Tax Reform Act of 1986", Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting with Randy Beatty and Ivo Welch, Vol. 9 No. 3, October 1997.
“The Relation between Stock Prices and Accounting Information”, Review of Accounting Studies with Rex Thompson, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1997: 325-351.
Editorial Boards
Ad Hoc Reviewer for: Accounting Horizons
Ad Hoc Reviewer for: The Accounting Review
Ad Hoc Reviewer for: Issues in Accounting Education
Grants, Honors & Awards
- Award for Outstanding Teaching in the MBA program in 2009
- Edwin L. Cox School of Business Distinguished MBA Teaching Award, 2002 and 2005
- Recognition for Outstanding Teaching in the MBA Program 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2006
- Arthur Andersen Junior Faculty Fellow, 1996- 1997
- Recognition for Outstanding Teaching in BBA Program, 1995 and 1996
- Edwin L. Cox School of Business Distinguished BBA Teacher Award, 1994
- Ernst and Young Faculty Development Award, 1994
- Mary Pickford Foundation Teaching Award, 1991
- AWSCPA/ASWA National Laurels Fund Scholarship, 1990
- University of Southern California Doctoral Achievement Award, 1990
- Deloitte and Touche Doctoral Fellowship, 1989 and 1990
- Summa Cum Laude Graduate
- Outstanding Woman Student in Business
- Outstanding Finance Student
- Mortar Board
- Beta Gamma Sigma
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