Dan Gode -- Bio

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Overview

I am a Clinical Professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University. I teach and consult extensively about business drivers, financial reporting and analysis, data analytics, modeling, and taxation. I have been at Stern since 1998. I was voted “Professor of the Year” twice and nominated seven times.

Education and Experience

Education

1994: Ph.D. in Accounting with a minor in Information Systems, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
1992: M.S. in Accounting, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
1990: M.S. in Information Systems, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
1988: M.B.A., Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India
1986: B.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi, India

Experience

2017-: Clinical Professor of Accounting, Stern School of Business, New York University
2004-17: Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting, Stern School of Business, New York University
1998-04: Assistant Professor of Accounting, Stern School of Business, New York University
1993-98: Assistant Professor of Accounting, William E. Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester; Consultant to various banks, audit firms, and corporations

Teaching

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Number of different courses taught excluding Excel bootcamps: 23

Total number of individual sections taught excluding Excel bootcamps: 297

Total number of students taught by the end of Fall 2023 excluding Excel bootcamps: 13,426

I have also taught in the Columbia EMBA program as a visiting faculty.

Teaching Materials and Affordability

I have not required a textbook for any of my courses except the “Individual Taxation” course at Stern. All my materials have been free to the students. I do not charge my Stern students for access to the extensive materials and assessment system at Almaris.com to avoid any conflict of interest.

Teaching Awards

2022: “Favorite Professor of the #SternEMBA Class of 2022! ...”
2018-13, '03, '01: Finalist for the Professor of the Year Award at the Stern School of Business, New York University
2004, '02: Winner of the Professor of the Year Award at the Stern School of Business, New York University
2008: Pedagogical Innovation Award at the Stern School of Business, New York University
2002-98: Member of Club 6 (instructors whose ratings exceed six on seven) at Stern
1997: Member of the Dean's List of the Top Five instructors at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester
1996: Superior Teaching Award, William E. Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester

Stern Executive Programs

July 2020: 3-day NYU Stern Executive Programs course on Business Drivers of Industries
2013, ‘12, ‘10: Accounting for credit analysis for Standard and Poors, New York, USA, and London, UK
2010: Finance for Executives at Tatas, Pune, India
2009: Analysis for China Southern Bank, New York, USA

Electronic Materials Development

1990: Developed an automated trading system at Carnegie Mellon, which has been used as a platform for research and teaching in understanding markets
1995-: Develop and update the Financial Accounting Tutor, a comprehensive interactive software package to teach financial accounting. John Wiley published the software. The software helps students learn basic accounting concepts independently, thereby freeing up class time to discuss managerial issues.
2004-: Develop and update Almaris Online Assessment system. This system provides unique features to evaluate long accounting and finance problems. Most commercial systems work only with multiple-choice and single numeric input problems.

Consulting

I have taught numerous training programs at corporations, investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity shops. I have also consulted extensively with these organizations. For details about my consulting and training work, including a list of clients I have worked with, please visit my Almaris.com web page.

Accounting and Financial Reporting

Deferred income taxes

Business combinations

Share-based compensation

Leases

Foreign operations

Statement of cash flows

Convertible debt

Asset retirement obligations

Asset impairments

Pensions and other post-employment benefits

Valuation and Modeling

Modeling financial statements

Forensic accounting and earnings quality analysis

Mergers, acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts

Credit Risk

Analysis of credit risk

Debt structuring

Research

Research Interests

Accounting-based valuation, earnings forecasts, contracts, design of markets, and automated trading

Honors and Awards

1993-90: Deloitte and Touche Foundation Fellow
1991: Richard M. and Margaret S. Cyert Family Fellowship, given to the doctoral student who “best demonstrates the capacity for interdisciplinary work of unusual vision, originality, imagination, and creativity,” Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
1991: Doctoral Consortium Fellow at the American Accounting Association, Tahoe City, California
1991-88: William Larimer Mellon Fellowship, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Citations Count from Google Scholar

Link to Google Scholar profile

Data as of February 15, 2021

Citations

Publications

2013: Mohanram P. and Gode, D. Removing predictable analyst forecast errors to improve implied cost of equity estimates. Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 18 (2), 443-478
2006: Gode, D. (Dan) K., & Singh, R. (2006). The Impact of Verifiability on Contracts. Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, 21(2), 149–168. https://doi.org/10.1177/0148558X0602100205
2005: Barclay, M., Gode, D.K., and Kothari, S.P., Measuring Delivered Performance, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp 1-26
2004: Gode, D.K. and Sunder, S. Double Auction Dynamics: Structural Effects of Non-Binding Price Controls, Journal of Economics Dynamics and Control, vol. 28, pp 1707-1731
2004: Gode, D.K. and James Ohlson, Accounting-based Valuation with Changing Interest Rates, Review of Accounting Studies, Volume 9, Number 5, December 2004
2003: Gode, D.K. and Partha Mohanram, Inferring the Cost of Capital using the Ohlson-Juettner Model, Review of Accounting Studies, Volume 8, Number 4, December 2003
1997: Gode, D.K. and Sunder, S. What Makes Markets Allocationally Efficient? Quarterly Journal of Economics, May, Vol. 112 (2), 603-630
1993: Gode, D. K. and Sunder, S., Allocative Efficiency of Markets with Zero Intelligence Traders: Market as a Partial Substitute for Individual Rationality. Journal of Political Economy, Volume 101, Number 1, February, 119 137
1993: Gode, D. K. and Sunder, S., Human and Artificially Intelligent Traders in Computer Double Auctions. K. Carley and M. Prietula (Eds.), Computational Organizational Theory, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum (in press). Gode, D. K. and Sunder, S. (1993)
1993: Lower Bounds for Efficiency of Surplus Extraction in Double Auctions. In The Double Auction Market: Institutions, Theories, and Evidence, edited by D. Friedman and J. Rust, Santa Fe Institute Series in the Sciences of the Complexity, Proceedings Volume XV. New York, NY, Addison Wesley
1990: Gode, D. K., Barua, A., and Mukhopadhyay, T., On the Economics of Software Maintenance Problem. Proceedings of the International Conference of Information Systems, Denmark, 159 170

Working Papers

2017: Gode, D.K. and Sunder, S. Convergence of Double Auctions to Contract Curve in an Edgeworth Box
2001: Gode, D. K. and Sunder, S. On the Impossibility of Global Continuously-Clearing Markets: The Case for Call Markets

Presentations

2002: Gode, D. K. and Mohanram, P., Inferring the Cost of Capital using the Ohlson-Juettner Model, Yale School of Management
2002: Gode, D.K., and Ohlson, J., Accounting-based Valuation with Changing Interest Rates. Rutgers University Business School, Newark
2002: Gode, D.K., and Mohanram P., Implied Cost of Capital, USC conference
2002: Gode, D.K., and Ohlson, J., Accounting-based Valuation with Changing Interest Rates., Carnegie Mellon University Conference
2001: Gode, D.K., and Mohanram P., Implied Cost of Capital NYU-Columbia Joint Workshop
2000: Gode, D.K., and Mohanram P., What Affects the Implied Cost of Equity Capital? New York University
2000: Gode, D.K., and Mohanram P., The Relative Use of Earnings and Stock Prices in CEO Compensation, American Accounting Association
2000: Gode, D.K., and Ohlson, J., P-E Multiples and Changing Interest Rates. New York University
1999: Gode, D.K. and Sunder, S., Design of Auctions, the University of Texas at Dallas
1999: Gode, D.K., and Mohanram P., The Relative Use of Earnings and Stock Prices in CEO Compensation New York University
1999: Barclay, M., Gode, D.K., and Kothari, S.P., Measuring Delivered Performance, Baruch College
1999: Gode, D.K. and Sunder, S., Design of Auctions, IBM Watson Research Center
1999: Gode, D. K., Electronic Texts, Lehigh University/Lafayette College
1999: Gode, D. K., Electronic Texts, Ramapo College
1998: Gode, D. K., Electronic Texts, American Accounting Association, New Orleans
1998: Gode, D. K., Electronic Texts, Rutgers University, Newark
1998: Gode, D. K., Electronic Texts, American Accounting Association, New Orleans
1997: Barclay, M., Gode, D.K., and Kothari, S.P., Measuring Delivered Performance, Conference at SUNY Buffalo
1997: Barclay, M., Gode, D.K., and Kothari, S.P., Measuring Delivered Performance, New York University
1997: Gode, D. K. and Sunder, S., Double Auction Dynamics: Structural Consequences of Non-Binding Price Controls Economic Science Association meetings in Tucson
1997: Barclay, M., Gode, D.K., and Kothari, S.P., Measuring Delivered Performance, Harvard Business School
1997: Gode, D. K. and Sunder, S., Double Auction Dynamics: Structural Consequences of Non-Binding Price Controls American Economic Association Meetings in New Orleans
1996: Barclay, M., Gode, D.K., and Kothari, S.P., Earnings versus Price Changes: Delivered versus Expected Performance, Department of Accounting, SUNY Buffalo
1996: Barclay, M., Gode, D.K., and Kothari, S.P., Earnings versus Price Changes: Delivered versus Expected Performance, Simon School of Business, University of Rochester
1996: Gode, D. K. and Sunder, S., What Makes Markets Allocationally Efficient? At the Department of Accounting, University of Minnesota
1995: Gode D.K., Future of Markets-Based Research in Accounting. Member of the panel discussion with Professors William Beaver and Joel Demski at the American Accounting Association, Annual Conference
1993: Gode, D. K. and Sunder, S., What Makes Markets Allocationally Efficient? At the Department of Economics, University of Rochester
1993: Gode, D. K. and Sunder, S., What Makes Markets Allocationally Efficient? At the Accounting and Finance Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, October 1993
1993: Gode, D. K., Joint and Several Liability of Auditors. At the Accounting and Finance Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, October 1993
1992: Gode, D. K. and Sunder, S., Some Issues in the Electronic Modeling of Continuous Double Auctions with Computer Traders. Conference on Computational Economics, IC2 Institute, the University of Texas at Austin
1991: Gode, D. K. and Sunder, S., Lower Bounds for Efficiency of Surplus Extraction in Double Auctions. Meetings of the Economic Science Association, Tucson, Arizona
1990: Gode, D. K. and Sunder, S., Electronic Stock Exchange and Trading System. IBM Academic Computing Conference, Miami
1989: Gode, D. K. and Sunder, S., Human and Artificially Intelligent Traders in Computer Double Auctions. Meetings of the Economic Science Association, Tucson, Arizona

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