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Billy Soo

Vice Provost for Faculties

Professor

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Billy Soo

Contact

Waul House 108

Telephone: 617-552-3263

Email: soob@bc.edu

ORCID

Education

  • BS, University of the Philippines
  • MS, Northwestern University
  • Ph.D, Northwestern University

Research Interests

Audit Markets and Auditor Tenure; Disclosure Incentives; and Financial Regulations Response.

Department

Accounting

Profile

Professor Billy Soo's research interests are in audit markets and auditor tenure, disclosure incentives, and managers鈥� and equity market鈥檚 responses to financial regulations. He has published in聽The Accounting Review,听Journal of Accounting Research,听Contemporary Accounting Research,听Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory,听补苍诲听Journal of Accounting and Public Policy.

He teaches all levels of financial accounting and financial statement analysis to undergraduates, graduates and executives.聽

Previously, Professor Soo worked for the accounting firm SGV & Co. (previously a part of Andersen Worldwide and now a member of Ernst & Young Global), and earned his CPA in the Philippines.

Selected Appointments & Awards

  • 2012, 2008 Carroll School Honors Program Outstanding Professor Award
  • 2011, Distinguished Alumni Award, University of the Philippines College of Business Administration
  • 2010, Carroll School Distinguished Teacher Award
  • 2008, Honorary member, 艾可直播 Security Analysts Society

Professor Soo has served or is currently serving on the editorial boards of聽Accounting Horizons,听Issues in Accounting Education,听Philippine Management Review听补苍诲听Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory.

Selected Publications

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Elizabeth Carson, Roger Simnett and Arnold Wright.) Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, 21 (3), 47-73. August, 2012.聽

  • 听鈥�.鈥� (With Larry Davis and Greg Trompeter.) Contemporary Accounting Research, 26 (2), 517-548. Summer, 2009.聽

  • 听鈥�.鈥� (With Mary Ellen Carter.) Journal of Accounting Research, 37 (1), 119-132. Spring, 1999.聽

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Kenneth B. Schwartz.) The Accounting Review, 71 (4), 555-572. October, 1996.聽

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Kenneth B. Schwartz.) Contemporary Accounting Research, 13 (1), 335-352. Spring, 1996.聽

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Kenneth B. Schwartz.) Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 14 (1), 125-136. Spring, 1995.聽

  • 鈥溾�� (With Lisa Gilbert Soo.) The Accounting Review, 69 (4), 617-638. October, 1994.
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