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Valentina Zamora, PhD, CMA

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Biography

Tina’s research examines accounting as an instrument of individual agency, corporate accountability, and social responsibility. She is published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Auditing: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and Issues in Accounting Education. She has served on the editorial board of Issues in Accounting Education, and currently serves on the editorial boards of Auditing: A Journal of Theory and Practice, and Accounting Horizons. Tina’s teaching experience includes both graduate and undergraduate-level managerial and cost accounting, professional ethics, corporate governance, and ESG and sustainability. Tina has also co-directed the Albers European Union Business Immersion study tour every summer since 2014. In addition to serving as the Accounting Department’s Graduate Accounting Program Director, Tina is a member of the Albers School’s Promotion and Tenure committee, a representative of the Albers School on the University’s Academic Assembly, and a planning committee member for the American Accounting Association’s New Faculty Consortium. Prior to entering academia, she worked in the Japanese and Korean Tax and Audit Practice of KPMG LLP in New York City and in the Office of International Education and Exchange at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Accounting, University of Washington-Seattle, 2003
  • Master of Business Administration, University of Oregon, 1996
  • Master of Arts in Asian Studies, University of Oregon, 1994
  • Postgraduate studies in International Business, Netherlands School of Business, 1990
  • Bachelor of Arts in Accounting, University of Oregon, 1990

Courses Taught

  • ACCT 2310: Managerial Accounting
  • ACCT 3300: Cost Accounting
  • ACCT 4940: ESG and Corporate Sustainability in the EU (undergraduate)
  • ACCT 5385: Corporate Governance and Professional Ethics (graduate)

Publications

  • “The Effects of Current Income Attributes on Nonprofessional Investors’ Say-on-Pay Judgments: Does Fairness Still Matter?” with Steve Kaplan, Journal of Business Ethics, 2018 Vol. 153(2): 407-425.
  • “CSR Disclosure Items Used as Fairness Heuristics in the Investment Decision” with Jeff Cohen and Helen Brown-Liburd, Journal of Business Ethics, 2018 Vol. 152(1): 275-289.
  • “Managers’ Strategic Reporting Judgments in Audit Negotiations” with Helen Brown-Liburd and Arnold Wright, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 2016 Vol. 35(1): 47-64.
  • “Nonfinancial Information Preferences of Investment Professionals” with Jeffrey Cohen and Lori Holder-Webb, Behavioral Research in Accounting, 2015 Vol. 27(2): 127-153. . Winner, Accounting, Behavior and Organization Section, 2016 Behavioral Research in Accounting Best Paper.
  • “The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Assurance in Investors’ Judgments When Managerial Pay is Explicitly Tied to CSR Performance” with Helen Brown-Liburd, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, 2015 Vol. 34(1): 75-96.
  • “Contextual and Individual Dimensions of Taxpayer Decision-Making” with Jeffrey Cohen and Gil Manzon, Journal of Business Ethics, 2015 Vol. 126: 631-647.
  • “One Laptop Per Child: The $100 Challenge” with Andrea Alston Roberts, Issues in Accounting Education , 2012 Vol. 27(3): 799-817.
  • “Using a Social Enterprise Service-Learning Strategy in an Introductory Management Accounting Course” Issues in Accounting Education, 2012 Vol. 27(1): 187-226. .
  • “Does Greater Risk-Bearing in Stock Option Compensation Reduce the Influence of Problem Framing on Managerial Risk-Taking Behavior? ” with Kim Sawers and Arnie Wright, Behavioral Research in Accounting, 2011 Vol. 23(1): 185-201.
  • “Characteristics of Firms Responding to Underwater Employee Stock Options: Evidence from Traditional Repricings, 6&1 Exchanges, and Makeup Grants” Journal of Management Accounting Research, 2008 Vol. 20: 107-132.
  • “CEO's Outside Employment Opportunities and Lack of Relative Performance Evaluation” with Shivaram Rajgopal and Terry Shevlin, Journal of Finance 2006 LXI(4): 1813-1844. . Referenced, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2016 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström: Contract Theory.