Consortium Presenters' Bios

Wim A. Van der Stede

Professor Wim Van der Stede is the CIMA Professor of Accounting and Financial Management in the Department of Accounting at the London School of Economics.  He previously held a faculty position at the University of Southern California’s Marshal School of Accounting.  He has published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Organizations and Society, Management Science, European Accounting Review as well as many American Accounting Section journals and other leading academic and practitioner outlets. Professor Van der Stede's research interests include the study of performance targets and the budgeting processes used to set them; performance measurement and evaluation; and incentive systems that relate performance evaluations to the provision of rewards. He is a co-author of a leading textbook on Management Control Systems.Wim is the recipient of the 2009 Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education and the 2007 AAA Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award.

Patrick Hopkins

Professor Patrick Hopkins is a Professor of Accounting and Deloitte Foundation Accounting Faculty Fellow in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University – Bloomington.  He has published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society as well as a variety of other academic and practitioner outlets.  He is the co-recipient of the 2011 AAA Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature Award.  Patrick’s research concentrates on experimental studies of financial accounting and in addition he has co-authored archival research in the same area. He is a co-author of a research monograph on disclosure and equity valuation.

Leslie Hodder

Associate Professor Leslie Hodder is the Ernst & Young Faculty Fellow in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University – Bloomington.  She has published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons as well as a variety of other academic and practitioner outlets.  Her research on fair value accounting (with Barth and Studden) won the AAA Deloitte Wildman Medal Award in 2008. Leslie carries out capital markets research employing archival methods although she has dabbled in experimental financial accounting research.