Steven J. Huddart
Professor, Senior Associate Dean
Department Accounting
Office Address 210E Business Building
Phone Number
814-865-3271
Email Address
huddart@psu.edu
Steven J. Huddart
Professor, Senior Associate Dean
Department Accounting
Office Address 210E Business Building
Phone Number
814-865-3271
Email Address
huddart@psu.edu
Steven Huddart is the Senior Associate Dean for Research and Faculty in the Smeal College of Business at the Penn State. From 2011 to 2018, he served as the Accounting Department Chair.
Professor Huddart's research examines how decisions are affected by information, incentives, social norms, and behavioral biases. He has examined the relationships between disclosure and insider trading; the financial reporting, taxation, compensation, and valuation aspects of employee stock options; the effects of ownership structure on corporate value; the determinants of investors' decisions to trade; and measures of quality for financial statement data.
He has taught financial accounting, managerial accounting, and tax planning. Professor Huddart has published cases on indirect cost allocation and the taxation of a corporate acquisition. Before coming to Smeal, he taught at Duke, Michigan, and Stanford.
He is a Chartered Professional Accountant (Canada). Previously he served as an editor of Contemporary Accounting Research and The Accounting Review, and on the editorial boards of Contemporary Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting & Economics, the Review of Accounting Studies, and the Journal of Accounting Case Research.
Expertise
stock-based compensation. insider trading.
Education
Ph D, Yale University, 1991
M Phil, Yale University, 1988
MA, Yale University, 1988
BMath, The University of Waterloo, 1985
Courses Taught
ACCTG 597 – Special Topics (4)
Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently; several different topics may be taught in one year or term.
ACCTG 404 – Managerial Accounting: Economic Perspective (3)
Accounting techniques as planning, control, and motivating devices in business and other organizations; accounting data for decision making and performance evaluation.
ACCTG 597E – Analytical Modeling (4)
Seminar on anaytical modeling in accounting.
B A 521 – Introduction to Managerial Accounting (2)
Cost accounting and the design of management accounting systems for planning and controlling operations, and for motivating personnel.
ACCTG 211 – Financial and Managerial Accounting for Decision Making (4)
Introduction to the role of accounting numbers in the process of managing a business and in investor decision making.
ACCTG 590 – Colloquium (variable)
Continuing seminars which consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.
ACCTG 596 – Individual Studies (variable)
Creative projects, including nonthesis research, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
ACCTG 550 – Taxation and Management Decisions (2)
Framework for understanding the effects of taxes on business decisions and fordevising effective tax planning strategies.
B A 574 – Business Research (variable)
A project paper, comparable in quality and scope of work to a graduate thesis, on problems of a company.
Selected Publications
https://sites.psu.edu/fidelity/ contains information on our theoretical model, estimation method, data, and programs for the MCMC algorithm that you can adopt to estimate other constructs.
2004-2005 winner of the McLaughlin Prize for Ethics in Accounting Research
The New York University Salomon Center Series on Financial Markets and Institution