Introduction

L. Shivakumar is a Chaired Professor of Accounting. He joined London Business School in 1996. He received his Ph.D. in Management and his Masters in Business Administration at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, U.S.A and his Bachelors in Commerce at the University of Madras, India. He has a certification in cost accounting from India. He teaches courses on Financial Statement Analysis and Securities Analysis & Financial Modelling and has also taught courses on Financial Accounting and Corporate Finance.

He has published articles in several top-tier accounting and finance journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial Economics. His main research interests are in the areas of stock-return predictability, earnings quality and earnings conservatism. On stock return predictability, his research has addressed issues relating to the causes underlying price momentum and post-earnings-announcement drift anomalies. His research on earnings quality and earnings conservatism includes an examination of reporting quality in private companies and in firms making public equity offerings. He has also studied the effect of earnings conservatism on accrual accounting. 

Professor Shivakumar serves on the Editorial Board of the The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research and the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting and is an associate editor of the Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics. He is a regular invitee to the Journal of Accounting and Economics Conference and to the Journal of Accounting Research Conference, two of the most prestigious conferences in accounting.  Professor Shivakumar also consults for several bankers and consulting firms on valuation, financial analysis and investment strategies. He consistently achieves excellent teaching ratings and was nominated for the best junior faculty teaching award.