The following University of California, Davis, faculty are available to comment on accounting and tax issues.

Evaluation of accounting methods, financial information and stock market disclosures

Paul A. Griffin, professor of management in the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, is a leading international authority in accounting and financial information and disclosures. He has advised companies and governments on accounting and tax issues for the past 25 years. He has also published more than 55 articles in leading accounting and finance journals, four research monographs for the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and two casebooks on U.S. corporate financial reporting. His current research projects examine relations between stock prices and sustainability disclosures, among other topics. He serves as co-editor of “Accounting Horizons.” Contact: Paul A. Griffin, Graduate School of Management, (530) 752-7372, pagriffin@ucdavis.edu.

Response of nonprofit organizations to economic incentives

Robert Yetman, professor of management, is an expert on corporate tax, financial accounting, income tax, U.S. and international financial accounting, and nonprofit accounting and tax issues. His research concentrates on the effect of taxes on business decisions and the response of nonprofit organizations to economic incentives. Yetman recently examined why some tax-exempt charities choose to be taxed on their unrelated business income, and how such behavior is not always driven by the desire to maximize profits. He has lectured on cost accounting at executive education programs for wine industry professionals. Contact: Robert Yetman, Graduate School of Management, (530) 752-3571, rjyetman@ucdavis.edu.

Financial and tax accounting, education of CPAs

Will Snyder is the executive director of the Master of Professional Accountancy program, which welcomed its first class at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management in fall 2012. UC Davis became the first University of California school to offer a master’s degree in professional accountancy — a response to major changes in educational requirements and the resulting need for improved training of certified public accountants in California. Snyder served as a full-time member of the Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy at San Diego State University for the past 24 years. Prior to that, he was a partner with Deloitte Haskins and Sells, an international professional services firm. He was also a professor at the University of Southern California, his alma mater, from 1992 to 1994. http://gsm.ucdavis.edu/faculty/will-snyder Contact: Will Snyder, Graduate School of Management, (530) 752-7403, wsnyder@ucdavis.edu.

Tax law

Dennis J. Ventry is a professor at UC Davis School of Law. He is a frequent contributor to Tax Notes, the leading publisher of tax policy and tax information, and he has written extensively about the effects of taxation on the U.S. economy. His articles include: “The Accidental Deduction: A History and Critique of the Tax Subsidy for Mortgage Interest,” (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1498784) in Law and Contemporary Problems, 2010, and “Protecting Abusive Tax Avoidance,” in Tax Notes in 2008. Additional information: http://www.law.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Ventry/index.aspx. Contact: Dennis J. Ventry, School of Law, (530) 752-4566, djventry@ucdavis.edu.