Dr. Sherwood Lane Lambert, Professor

Degrees Held:

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