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Rotman School Accounting Professor Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Accounting Research

Toronto, February 15, 2022 – A professor of accounting at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management is the next editor-in-chief of Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR), a premier research journal published by the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA).

Prof. Partha Mohanram will start his transition year as editor-in-chief elect on May 1 and will begin his three-year term as editor-in-chief on January 1, 2023.

"I am extremely honored to be appointed as the next Editor-in-Chief of CAR. I have had a long association with CAR as a contributing author, an editorial board reviewer, an editor for over a decade and deputy editor-in-chief for the past two years. I have come to understand what this journal stands for – publishing top class research in all areas of accounting using a wide variety of research methodologies and approaches,” says Prof. Mohanram.

CAR publishes leading-edge research that contributes to the collective understanding of accounting's role within organizations, markets, and society. CAR is included among the FT50, a list of fifty top academic and practitioner journals used to calculate the research rank in the Financial Times annual ranking of MBA programs. Founded in 1976, the CAAA is an association that promotes excellence in accounting research and education. Its mission is to foster a community that creates, communicates, and advances accounting knowledge in the public interest. Its members benefit from unique opportunities to learn, and to contribute to the international academic accounting landscape.

Partha Mohanram is the John H. Watson Chair in Value Investing, a professor of accounting, and the director of the India Innovation Institute at the Rotman School. Prof. Mohanram has published extensively in the top accounting and management journals, with publications in The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research and Management Science. He is considered to be one of the leading experts in the area of valuation, with many papers on fundamental analysis and the measurement of implied cost of capital. His papers are highly cited by academic colleagues and are featured in the business press. He obtained his PhD in Business Economics from Harvard. Prior to that, he obtained his PGDM (MBA) from IIM-Ahmedabad, and a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT-Madras.

The Rotman School of Management is part of the University of Toronto, a global centre of research and teaching excellence at the heart of Canada’s commercial capital. Rotman is a catalyst for transformative learning, insights and public engagement, bringing together diverse views and initiatives around a defining purpose: to create value for business and society. For more information, visit www.rotman.utoronto.ca.

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