Jeremiah Bentley

Education

PhD Management (Accounting), Cornell University, 2016 MS Management, Cornell University, 2015 MAcc, Brigham Young University, 2010 BS Accounting, Brigham Young University, 2010

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Massachusetts, 7/15-Present

Research Interests

• Managerial Accounting
• Performance Evaluation
• Performance Reporting

Teaching Interests

• Management Accounting
• Financial Accounting

Recent Honors & Awards

Isenberg Teaching Excellence Award, 2020 Management Accounting Section Best Early Career Researcher, 2020 Lybrand Silver Medal (with C. Blake, M. Shackell, and P. Trafford), 2020 Isenberg Research Excellence Award, 2019 IMA/Management Accounting Section Best Dissertation Award (Runner-Up), 2016 Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, 2014-2015

Selected Publications

Bentley, J.W., T.A. Lambert, and E.Y. Wang. The Effect of Increased Audit Disclosure on Managers’ Real Operating Decisions: Evidence from Disclosing Critical Audit Matters (Forthcoming at The Accounting Review; scheduled for January 2021 issue).

Bentley, J.W., C. Blake, M. Shackell, and P. Trafford. 2020. Let Me Explain! Strategic Finance (March 2020).

Bentley, J.W. 2019. Decreasing Operational Distortion and Surrogation through Narrative Reporting. The Accounting Review 94 (3): 27-55.

Bentley, J.W., T.E. Christensen, K.H. Gee, and B.C. Whipple. 2018. Disentangling Managers’ and Analysts’ Non-GAAP Reporting. Journal of Accounting Research 56 (4): 1039-1081.