Research Areas:
Financial Analysis, Valuation, IPOs, Market Efficiency, Earnings Management

Current Projects:  

Inventory Writedowns in the Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry

Valuing Indian IPOs

Earnings Persistence

Academic Positions:

Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, May 2010 - Present

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California at Davis, Spring 2009, Winter 2010

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, Fall 2008

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, Spring 2008

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, Summer 2005

Associate Professor of Accounting & Finance, Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore, India, 2003-2006

Assistant Professor of Accounting, College of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2000-2003

Assistant Professor of Accounting, Graduate School of Management, University of California - Davis, 1997-2000

Visiting Assistant Professor, Accounting Department, Northwestern University, 1995-1997

Other Positions:

Management Consultant, Price WaterHouse Co, 1988-1990

Awards:

Nominated for the Joseph Frascona Teaching Excellence award, 2001, 2002, 2008
Core Professor of the Year, Graduate School of Management, University of California Davis, 1999
American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Tahoe City, California, 1992
Doctoral Fellowship, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 1990-1993

Significant Publications:

Agarwal, R., S. Bhagat, and S. Rangan, The Impact of Fundamentals on IPO Valuation, Forthcoming, Financial Management
Darrough, M.. and S. Rangan, 2005, Do insiders manipulate R&D spending when they sell their shares in an initial public offering? Journal of Accounting Research, 43:1 (Lead Article)
Rangan, S., and R. G. Sloan, 1998, Implications of the integral method of reporting for the magnitude of the post-earnings announcement drift, The Accounting Review, 73: 353-371
Rangan, S., 1998, Earnings management and the performance of seasoned equity offerings, Journal of Financial Economics, 50: 101-122
Fields, T., S. Rangan, and R. Thiagarajan, 1998, An Empirical Evaluation of the Usefulness of Non-GAAP Accounting measures in the Real Estate Investment Trust Industry, Review of Accounting Studies, 3: 103-130