EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
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Seminar Leaders
The instructors used in this seminar are experienced classroom teachers with significant levels of experience in executive education programs, business and consulting assignments, or oil and gas industry financial management.
Michael van Breda Academic Director/Associate Professor of Accounting, SMU
Michael van Breda is an Associate Professor of Accounting at SMU’s Cox School of Business. He earned his PhD in Accounting from Stanford University and his MBA (summa cum laude) from the University of Cape Town. His undergraduate degree is in Pure Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from the University of Stellenbosch.
Dr. van Breda has been teaching at SMU for 22 years, where he has been Chairman of the Accounting, Business Law, and Tax Department, Director of the SMU-in-Oxford program, and Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Finance. He has been honored by the university as a Teacher-Scholar and given the “M” Award for service to the university. He has been honored as a HOPE professor on a number of occasions.
Dr. van Breda currently teaches managerial accounting at the undergraduate and the graduate level. He teaches accounting theory to seniors, financial accounting to senior executives, and advanced topics in accounting to the masters of accounting students. He is the author of Prediction of Corporate Earnings and Accounting Theory, which have appeared in several translations. In addition, he has published numerous articles and several chapters in books. His primary research interests lie in the area of accounting theory and accounting history.
Prior to coming to SMU, Dr. van Breda taught at MIT in Massachusetts. Before coming to the United States, he was the manager of a private investment bank headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Jody Magliolo Professor and Distinguished Chair of Accounting, SMU
Jody Magliolo is Professor and Distinguished Chair in Accounting at SMU’s Cox School of Business. He received a BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Texas and served as a process engineer for Union Carbide. He holds an MBA degree from the University of Texas and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Dr. Magliolo taught accounting in the undergraduate and MBA programs at Carnegie-Mellon University and the Wharton School before joining SMU. He has been the recipient of teaching awards for graduate student instruction at both Wharton and SMU. His primary teaching interests are in financial accounting and financial statement analysis.
Dr. Magliolo’s dissertation examined oil and gas firms’ “reserve recognition accounting” disclosures. These disclosures, included as a part of oil and gas firms’ annual reports, value firms oil and gas reserves using rules specified by accounting policymakers. Subsequent research analyzed the relations between proved reserve disclosures in the financial statements and the valuation of oil and gas firms. His current research focuses on the interaction of financial accounting and regulatory issues in banks and insurance companies. He has published articles in the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Accounting Review, and the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance. He is a member of the editorial board of the Accounting Review.
Dr. Magliolo received the 1995 MBA Distinguished Teaching Award and the 1996 Research Excellence Award.
Michael Vetsuypens Professor of Finance, SMU
Dr. Mike Vetsuypens is Professor of Finance at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, where he teaches corporate finance and international finance in the undergraduate program, the MBA program and the executive MBA program. He holds a Master’s and a Ph.D. degree in Business Administration from the University of Rochester and was a Fulbright Fellow during his graduate work. Dr. Vetsuypens’ research interests include leveraged buyouts, investment banking, the venture capital market, initial public offerings, and CEO compensation. His research has been published in the leading finance journals and has been presented in numerous professional finance conferences.
Dr. Vetsuypens is a native of Brussels, Belgium. He speaks English, French, Dutch, Spanish and German. He is actively involved in various Executive Education Programs and has taught managers in the U.S., Europe, Japan, the Middle East and Latin America. His corporate clients include KPMG, Saudi Aramco, Meridian Oil, EDS, Phillips Petroleum, ConocoPhillips, TI, Sabre, TXU, Chemical Lime, and others. He is the recipient of the 1991 Cox School of Business Excellence in Research Award, the 1996, 1998 and 2004 Cox School of Business Distinguished MBA Teaching Award, and the 2001 Carl Sewell Distinguished Service to the Community Award.
