Catherine M. Schrand is an American academic and the Celia Z. Moh Professor of Accounting at the

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at the

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Early career

Schrand earned her BBA from the

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

in 1985. She has an M.B.A. (1993) and a Ph.D. (1994) from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

. Prior to earning her Ph.D. Schrand worked at KPMG Peat Marwick and served as a staff auditor and audit manager. Schrand has taught doctoral and undergraduates in Financial Accounting and currently serves as an associate editor of the

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Research

Professor Catherine Schrand is widely recognized for co-authoring ''Understanding earnings quality: A review of the proxies, their determinants and their consequences'' along with Patricia Dechow and Weili Ge. Her research focuses primarily on

risk management Risk management is the identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks, followed by the minimization, monitoring, and control of the impact or probability of those risks occurring. Risks can come from various sources (i.e, Threat (sec ...

, disclosure and equity financing. Her graduate student,

Sarah Zechman Sarah Louise Zechman () is the Tisone Memorial Fellow Professor at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. Education and career Zechman earned a BSBA in accounting in 1998 from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. ...

, led work showing how accounting fraud emerges full bloom from small initial misstatements by managers who are overconfident of their firms' prospects.

Selected publications

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Awards and honors

Zechman received the Best Paper Award from the

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's Financial Accounting and Reporting Section in 2020 for her paper ''Run EDGAR Run:SEC dissemination in a high frequency world''.

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