Steven Utke

Education/Professional Certification

• PhD, Business Administration, University of Georgia
• MT, Villanova University
• BSBA, Accounting, Bucknell University
• CPA (Licensed in NJ and PA)

Areas of Expertise

• Taxation
• Disclosure
• Auditing
• Institutional Owners
• Private Equity/Hedge Funds

Selected Publications

• “Noncompliance with Mandatory Disclosure Requirements: The Magnitude and Determinants of Undisclosed Permanently Reinvested Earnings” with B.C. Ayers and C.M. Schwab, 2015. The Accounting Review, 90 (1): 59-93.
• “Tax Policy and Organizational Form: Assessing the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017” with E. Henry and G. A. Plesko, 2018. National Tax Journal 71 (4): 635-660.
• “The Effect of Shareholder-Level Taxes on Organizational Form and Stock Ownership: Evidence from Equity Carve-Outs of Master Limited Partnerships” 2019. The Accounting Review 94 (1): 327-351.
• “Audit Quality and Specialist Tenure” with J. J. Gaver, 2019. The Accounting Review 94 (3): 113-147.
• “Common Institutional Ownership and Earnings Management” with S. Ramalingegowda and Y. Yu, 2021. Contemporary Accounting Research, 38 (1): 208-241.

Experience

• Associate Professor & Arthur Andersen, LLP Accounting Professor, University of Connecticut
• Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut
• Tax Manager, LS Power Development, LLC
• Senior Tax Associate, Ernst & Young, LLP
• Staff Auditor, Ernst & Young, LLP

Awards

• Journal of the American Taxation Association 2020 Outstanding Paper Award
• AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow
• Dr. Linda S. Bamber Scholarship
• Elijah Watt Sells Award
• PICPA CPA Exam Award

Teaching

• ACCT 3260: Federal Income Tax
• PhD Seminar: Tax Research
• SAS/STATA Camp