Dr. Sherwood Lane Lambert, Professor

Degrees Held:

• PhD in Accounting – The University of Texas at Arlington, 2011

Career Highlights:

My most recent research covers several topics:

• “Assessing the Impact of XBRL on the Coverage, Timeliness and Accuracy of Security Analysts’ Estimates of Next-Year EPS” and received the "Best Paper" Award at the 2016 American Accounting Association (AAA) Southeast Regional Conference
• “A Wrench in the COGS: An Analysis of the Differences between Cost of Goods Sold as Reported in Compustat and on the Financial Statements” published in Accounting Horizons
• “Relevance of Goodwill Impairments to Cash Flow Prediction and Forecasting” published in Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance
• “Assembly FG: An Education Case Study Using QuickBooks as the AIS for a Small Manufacturing Business” accepted for publication in AIS Educators Journal
• “Merchandise Hardware: A Case Designed to Teach Students Generalized Audit Software Using Microsoft Access” accepted for publication in AIS Educators Journal
• “Assembly FG: An Education Case on MRP II Integrated within ERP”
• “International AC: An Education Case on Continuous Monitoring SQL Server Data with ODBC-Linked Tables in Microsoft Access”
• Also made peer-reviewed presentations to several professional groups

Areas of Expertise:

• Accounting System Education, Accounting Information System, Financial Accounting and Reporting, and Financial Analysis
• CPA with a background in information systems and extensive experience in the private sector, including serving as a senior manager at Deloitte & Touche
• Led a financial interface team at Lockheed Martin that developed and implemented a new Manufacturing Requirements Planning system