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Welcome to Future PhDiva!

I am really not a diva, but an accounting professional preparing to pursue a PhD in accounting. This blog will post items of interest regarding the PhD in Accounting. Let me know what you think so far....Thanks!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

GMAT - Georgia State University Preparation Courses

To my Georgia friends, Georgia State University's Department of Mathematics offers a GMAT Math Preparation Course for $199 plus the cost of the book ($35).  The course is offered once a semester.  It is a good value for five weeks of instruction.  The next class starts on January 29, 2011.

For more information, see the following link.

http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwmat/students/prep/index.html .

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Accounting Research - The Accounting Review - January 2011

The January 2011 Accounting Review Table of Contents has just been issued by AAA. 

Some of the articles included in this issue are:

Determinants of Investors' Information Acquisition: Credibility and ConfirmationJane Thayer
Incentive Compensation and Promotion-Based Incentives of Mid-Level Managers: Evidence from a Multinational CorporationMerle Ederhof
Should Investors Follow the Prophets or the Bears? Evidence on the Use of Public Information by Analysts and Short SellersMichael S. Drake, Lynn Rees, and Edward P. Swanson
Can Big 4 versus Non-Big 4 Differences in Audit-Quality Proxies Be Attributed to Client Characteristics?Alastair Lawrence, Miguel Minutti-Meza, and Ping Zhang
Refer to the AAA Digital Library for more information:  http://scitation.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=ACRVAS&Volume=86&Issue=1&type=ALERT .

Monday, January 3, 2011

Happy New Year!

2011 is here!  Are you still excited about pursuing your PhD?  I hope so.  2011 is the year for planning for your academic career.  I will be enrolling in a GMAT Math Course at a local university to get my quantitative score up.

Has anyone else made any positive steps toward their academic career?  Please share.....