Orie Barron

Professor of Accounting, PricewaterhouseCoopers Teaching Fellow in Accounting, Director of Smeal College Schreyer Honors Program
Department: Accounting, Undergraduate Education
Office: 314 Business Building
Phone: 814-863-3230
Fax: 814-863-8393
E-mail: oeb1@psu.edu
Member of Faculty Since: 1997

Introduction

Professor Barron is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the American Accounting Association and has been invited to make presentations at the American Accounting Association Annual Meetings and the Annual International Symposium for Forecasting

He serves on the editorial board of
The Accounting Review
and as an ad hoc reviewer for
The Accounting Review, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Contemporary Accounting Research,
and
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy.

Professor Barron has conducted seminars at several universities.

Expertise

Financial disclosure and its regulation
Trading volume
Analysts forecasts
Auditing

Publication List

O. Barron and J. Karpoff, "Information Precision, Transaction Costs, and Trading Volume", Journal of Banking and Finance, 1/1/2004.

O. Barron, D. Byard and C. Enis, "Informational Determinants of Trading The SEC and On-line Investors: Experimental Data Demonstrating the Effects of Leveling the Information Playing Field", Review of Accounting and Finance, 1/1/2004, 3:4.

Education

B.A. , Western Washington University,   
M.B.A.,, Regent University,   
Ph.D., University of Oregon,   
C.P.A., Washington,   

Courses

ACCTG 403W, Auditing
ACCTG 501, Research Methods in Accounting
B A 591, Professional Development