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The following University of California, Davis, faculty are available to comment on accounting and tax issues.

Evaluation of accounting methods, financial information and disclosures: Paul A. Griffin, professor of management in the �°������ϲ���Ļ��Ϣ Davis Graduate School of Management, is a leading international authority in accounting and financial information and disclosures. He has advised companies and governments on accounting and tax issues for the past 20 years. He has also published more than 50 articles in leading accounting and finance journals, five research monographs for the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and two casebooks on U.S. corporate financial reporting. His current research projects examine relations between stock prices and greenhouse gas emissions, among other topics. He serves as co-editor of Accounting Horizons. Contact: Paul A. Griffin, Graduate School of Management, (530) 752-7372, pagriffin@ucdavis.edu.

Financial reporting and valuation: �°������ϲ���Ļ��Ϣ Davis associate professor of management Michelle Yetman researches financial reporting quality, governance and taxation with a special interest in international and nonprofit settings. Her research has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, National Tax Journal, Management Science, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. She teaches the core MBA course in financial accounting, as well as an accounting for non-financial managers course in the �°������ϲ���Ļ��Ϣ Davis Wine Executive Program. She is a certified public accountant in Texas. Contact: Michelle Yetman, Graduate School of Management, (530) 754-7808, mhyetman@ucdavis.edu.

Response of nonprofit organizations to economic incentives: Robert Yetman, associate professor of management, is an expert on corporate tax, financial accounting, income tax, U.S. and international financial accounting, and nonprofit accounting and tax issues. His research concentrates on the effect of taxes on business decisions and the response of nonprofit organizations to economic incentives. Yetman recently examined why some tax-exempt charities choose to be taxed on their unrelated business income, and how such behavior is not always driven by the desire to maximize profits. He has lectured on cost accounting at executive education programs for wine industry professionals. Contact: Robert Yetman, Graduate School of Management, (530) 752-3571, rjyetman@ucdavis.edu.

Financial and tax accounting, education of CPAs: Will Snyder is the executive director of the Master of Professional Accountancy program, which will welcome its first class at the �°������ϲ���Ļ��Ϣ Davis Graduate School of Management in fall 2012. �°������ϲ���Ļ��Ϣ Davis will become the first University of California school to offer a master’s degree in professional accountancy — a response to major changes in educational requirements and the resulting need for improved training of certified public accountants in California. Snyder served as a full-time member of the Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy at San Diego State University for the past 24 years. Prior to that, he was a partner with Deloitte Haskins and Sells, an international professional services firm. He was also a professor at the University of Southern California, his alma mater, from 1992 to 1994. Contact: Will Snyder, Graduate School of Management, (530) 752-7403, wsnyder@ucdavis.edu.

Tax law: Dennis J. Ventry is a professor at �°������ϲ���Ļ��Ϣ Davis School of Law. He is a frequent contributor to Tax Notes, the leading publisher of tax policy and tax information, and he has written extensively about the effects of taxation on the U.S. economy. His articles include: “The Accidental Deduction: A History and Critique of the Tax Subsidy for Mortgage Interest,” ) in Law and Contemporary Problems, 2010, and “Protecting Abusive Tax Avoidance,” in Tax Notes in 2008. . Contact: Dennis J. Ventry, School of Law, (530) 752-4566, djventry@ucdavis.edu.