Stephen Bryan, Ph.D.: Accounting Instructor
Professor Bryan holds an undergraduate degree from UNC-Chapel Hill, an MBA from Baruch College of the City University of New York, and a doctorate in accounting from New York University’s Stern School of Business. He has held tenured faculty positions at Baruch and at Wake Forest University’s Babcock Graduate School of Management. He is currently a tenured professor at Fordham University. He has received numerous academic honors, including Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, H. Beck Memorial Award, Beta Alpha Psi, and Beta Gamma Sigma. He has also received teaching honors from all three institutions, including the Kienzle Award (from Wake Forest), which alumni award to the faculty member who most benefited their careers. Dr. Bryan has been published in a wide range of academic and practitioner journals, including The Accounting Review, the Journal of Business; the Journal of Corporate Finance; the Harvard Business Review; the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, Financial Management; and the CPA Journal. Professor Bryan has conducted accounting classes both to preparer- and user-oriented audiences, and he has consulted on numerous curricular design projects to make accounting more user-oriented. In addition to his university positions, he has taught at various domestic and international financial institutions for over a decade, as well as at several prominent law firms and multi-national corporations. Aside from his faculty positions in the U.S., he has also conducted courses in Vienna, Austria and Frankfurt, Germany.
Paul Lynch, Ph.D: Accounting Instructor
Paul Lynch is currently Assistant Professor of Accounting at Fordham University. Paul holds a B.A. (1989) and M.A. (1990) in Economics from Rutgers University; an M.B.A. with concentrations in analytic finance, financial management and statistics from the University of Chicago (1994); and an M.B.A. in Professional Accounting (2002) and a Ph.D. in Accounting (2008) from Rutgers University. His research interests focus on accounting for derivative securities and issues in consolidation accounting and corporate finance/valuation. He primarily teaches Advanced Accounting and Intermediate Accounting II at both the undergraduate and graduate level. He has received numerous academic honors, including the Touche Ross A.H. and H.S. Puder Award for academic excellence and has been inducted into Omicron Delta Epsilon and Beta Gamma Sigma.
Paul began his banking/finance career as an associate in the corporate finance group at UBS Securities in June 1991 where he worked on team that developed derivative financial products (zero-coupon bond with detachable warrants) and assisted senior bankers in evaluating and structuring financial transactions. In 1994, Paul joined Capital Markets Assurance Corporation as an Associate in Product Development where he evaluated alternative credit rating models from a theoretical and empirical perspective, analyzed issuance costs of asset-backed securities with respect to cash flow structure and credit enhancement and developed a generalized pricing model for multiple-tranch, fixed-income securities. In 1995, Paul joined the Dial Corporation as Manager of Acquisition Analysis. His primary role at Dial was assisting senior management with the spin-off of the company’s consumer products business, estimating the value of Dial Corp. subsidiaries using publicly traded comparables and deal/market multiples and in performing valuation analysis and participating in the due diligence process of perspective acquisition candidates. From 1996 to 2000, Paul work at the Globecon Group where he developed all written materials and Excel-based valuation models with respect to the pricing and structuring of derivative securities, the valuation of fixed income securities with embedded options and corporate valuation using both discounted cash flow analysis (WACC and APV) and price multiples analysis.
David C. Smith: Restructuring Instructor
David C. Smith is the C. Coleman McGehee Research Associate Professor of Banking and Commerce at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and Director of the McIntire Center for Financial Innovation. Smith specializes in the areas of corporate credit agreements, loan covenants, corporate restructuring, corporate governance, and distressed debt investing. He has published his research in a variety of top academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. Recent research work by Smith has been supported by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the American Bankruptcy Institute.
Smith teaches corporate finance and corporate restructuring at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has received a variety of commendations for his teaching, including most recently the Annual Faculty Recognition Award from the McIntire Order of the Claw & Dagger and as a Seven Society Honoree for Outstanding Contributions to the University of Virginia. Smith is also a Director in the global expert services and consulting firm, Berkeley Research Group, where he has been engaged as a testifying and consulting expert on matters related to corporate valuation and distressed debt investing.
Prior to working at the University of Virginia, Smith was an economist in the International Finance Division of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. and before that, an assistant professor of finance at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo, Norway. Smith received a B.S. in Economics from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. in Finance from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
James M. Wahlen: Accounting Instructor
Jim Wahlen is a Professor of Accounting and the James R. Hodge Chair of Excellence at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. His teaching and research interests focus on financial accounting and the capital markets. His research examines the relation between financial statement information and share prices and returns, as well as the degree to which the stock market is efficient with respect to accounting information, testing the extent to which an investor can successfully predict future stock returns with earnings and other financial statement information. His research has been published in a variety of leading academic journals. Professor Wahlen has co-authored a textbook on financial statement analysis and valuation, titled Financial Reporting Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation: A Strategic Perspective (6th edition), with Professors Clyde Stickney and Paul Brown. He teaches courses on financial accounting and financial statements analysis and has received numerous teaching awards. He received his Ph.D from the University of Michigan in 1991. He has had public accounting experience in both Milwaukee and Seattle. Jim and his wife Debbie have two daughters, Jessica and Jaymie. In his free time, Jim loves outdoor sports including biking, hiking, and skiing, as well as gardening, cooking, and great music (especially when it is live and loud!).
Wan Wongsunwai: Accounting Instructor
Wan Wongsunwai is an Assistant Professor and Lawrence Revsine Research Professor in the Department of Accounting Information and Management at the Kellogg School of Management. Wan teaches an elective MBA course on financial reporting and analysis, covering current practices in corporate financial reporting and issues relating to asset valuation and income determination. Wan received his doctorate degree from Harvard Business School. Wan has also worked as a financial analyst with ABN AMRO Bank, and he was ranked by Reuters in 2000 as one of the Top 10 software and IT analysts in Hong Kong and China. Prior to that, he was a senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Hong Kong, where he had responsibility for professional staff recruitment, training, deployment, and promotion, and where he also managed his own portfolio of audit and due diligence clients. His research interests include financial reporting quality, corporate governance, entrepreneurship and private equity.