Elaine Henry

Education

• PhD (2005) Rutgers University (Accounting)
• MBA (1981) Harvard Business School (Finance)

Research

• Financial disclosure and financial narrative
• International Financial Reporting
• Related Party Transactions

Experience

• Stevens Institute of Technology, Associate Professor, School of Business, 2015 to present.
• Fordham University, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Accounting & Taxation, and Director, Fordham CFA Program Partner Initiative, Bronx, NY, 2012 to 2015.
• University of Miami School of Business Administration, Coral Gables, FL, Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting, 2005 to 2012.
• Citibank, New York, London, Athens, Senior Banker, Vice-President, 1987-2001.
• McKinsey & Company, New York, Hong Kong, Management Consultant, 1983-1986.
• Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, New York, Associate, Corporate Finance, 1981-1983.

Institutional Service

• Strategic Plan 2022 Steering Committee Member
• School of Business Nominating Committee Member
• School of Business P&T Committee Member
• School of Business: Faculty Champion -- Accounting and Analytics Undergraduate Major Member
• CFA Institute (Chartered Financial Analyst) University Affiliation Program Chair
• 2021/22 Accounting Non-Tenure Track Faculty Search Committee Chair
• Academic Operations and Affairs Committee Member
• Academic Operations and Affairs Committee's Promotions Sub- Committee member Member
• School of Business: Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Member
• School of Business: Management Programs Academic Committee Member
• School of Business: Ethics Committee Member
• VPDAE Search committee Member
• Accounting Preliminary search committee Chair
• New Faculty Orientation Faculty Experience Panel Member
• School of Business Accounting Faculty Search Committee Chair
• Faculty Representative Stevens’ next Vice President for Development and Alumni Engagement Member

Professional Service

• American Accounting Association Global Engagement Committee Member and Committee Member. Notable and Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award Screening Committee
• International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association Immediate Past-President, Member of Nominating Committee, and Member of Executive Council
• President - International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association 2019-2020
• Vice-President Academic, International Accounting Section of American Accounting Association 2018-2019
• American Accounting Association and Ernst & Young Senior Faculty at the 2019 New Faculty Consortium

Honors and Awards

• Bright Idea Award, Publications of New Jersey’s Business Faculty, 16 ed., 2017
• Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Award, 2003
• Citibank Global Corporate Bank, Global Relationship Banking Award, 1998, in recognition of role as transactor in cross-border acquisition financing on the basis of creativity, leadership, cross-organizational cooperation.

Professional Societies

• CFANY – CFA Society of New York (Fellow = N/A) Member
• CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Institute – CFA Institute (Fellow = N/A) Member
• AAA – American Accounting Association (Fellow = N/A) Member

Grants, Contracts, and Funds

• “Income Statement Presentation and Forecasting Quality.” Co-principal investigators: Elaine Henry and Steve Yang. Informing the IASB Standard Setting Process IAAER – KPMG Research Program. Grant from KPMG Foundation and KPMG Global Services Group, 2020.

Selected Publications

BOOK

• Pinto, J.; Henry, E.; Robinson, T.; Stowe, J.; Cohen, A. (2020). Equity Asset Valuation, CFA Investment Series. Wiley.

BOOK CHAPTER

• Henry, E.; Leone, A. J. (2014). Measuring the tone of accounting and financial narrative. Communication and Language Analysis in the Corporate World (pp. 36--47). IGI Global.
• Gordon, E. A.; Henry, E.; Palia, D. (2004). Related party transactions and corporate governance. Corporate Governance (pp. 1--27). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
• CONFERENCE PROCEEDING
• Gordon, E. A.; Henry, E.; Palia, D. (2006). Related party transactions: associations with corporate governance and firm value. EFA 2004 Maastricht Meeting Paper & AFA.
• Gordon, E. A.; Henry, E.; Palia, D. (2004). Determinants of related party transactions and their impact on firm value. American Accounting Association 2004 Annual Conference Paper (pp. 1--60).

JOURNAL ARTICLE

• Henry, E.; Thewissen, J.; Torsin , W. (2021). International Earnings Announcements: Tone, Forward-looking Statements, and Informativeness. European Accounting Review (pp. 1-35). European Accounting Review.
• Henry, E.; Peytcheva, M. (2020). Joint Effects of Boilerplate and Text Markup on the Judgments of Novice and Experienced Users of Financial Information. Behavioral Research in Accounting (1 ed., vol. 32, pp. 1-20). Behavioral Research in Accounting (AAA).
• Henry, E.; Hu, N.; Jiang, X. (2020). Relative Emphasis on Non-GAAP Earnings in Conference Calls: Determinants and Market Reaction. European Accounting Review (1 ed., vol. 29, pp. 169-197). European Accounting Review ( Informa UK Ltd).
• Bai, X.; Fang, R.; Henry, E.; Hu, N. (2020). Supply chain hierarchical position and firms’ information quality. Journal of Financial Stability (vol. 51). Journal of Financial Stability (Springer).
• Henry, E.; Peytcheva, M. (2018). Earnings-Announcement Narrative and Investor Judgment. Accounting Horizons (3 ed., vol. 32, pp. 123-143). Accounting Horizons (AAA) .
• Gordon, E. A.; Henry, E.; Jorgensen, B. N.; Linthicum, C. L. (2017). Flexibility in cash-flow classification under IFRS: determinants and consequences. Review of Accounting Studies (2 ed., vol. 22, pp. 839-872). Review of Accounting Studies (Springer).
• Ciesielski, J. T.; Henry, E. (2017). Accounting’s Tower of Babel: Key Considerations in Assessing Non-GAAP Earnings. Financial Analysts Journal (2 ed., vol. 73, pp. 34--50). Financial Analysts Journal (Routledge).
• Henry, E.; Leone, J. A. (2016). Measuring qualitative information in capital markets research: Comparison of alternative methodologies to measure disclosure tone. Accounting Review (1 ed., vol. 91, pp. 153-178). The Accounting Review (AAA).
• Gordon, E. A.; Henry, E.; Li, X.; Sun, L. (2014). Management Guidance Pre-and Post-Restatement. Journal of Business Finance & Accounting (7-8 ed., vol. 41, pp. 867--892). Journal of Business Finance & Accounting (Wiley).