Accounting Faculty and Staff
Jonathan Ross, PhD
- Assistant Professor - Accounting | Graduate Faculty
- Assistant Professor - Accounting | Graduate Faculty
- jonathan.ross@wku.edu
- Chandler Hall 3069
- 502-321-5609
- Curriculum Vitae
Teaching Area(s)
Accounting Data Analytics
Intermediate Financial Accounting
Introduction to Financial Accounting
Accounting for Decision Makers
Education
Ph.D., University of Kentucky, Accounting, 2013
M.S., University of Kentucky, Economics, 2010
B.A., University of Kentucky, Mathematical Economics, 2006
Biography
Dr. Ross taught in the School of Management / Accounting Area for the past 10 years at Binghamton University. He recently moved back to his home state of Kentucky with his wife to take the WKU job.
Recent Publications
Insights into the Effects of Regulation Fair Disclosure on Stock Price Efficiency Using Spatio-Temporal Entropy — Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2026, Forthcoming) — with Dave Ziebart and Yu-ho Chi
The Correlation Between ROA and Size — Global Journal of Accounting and Finance, 2025, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 20-41, with Charles Kile
The Cost of Decentralization: A Teaching Case Example — In Proceedings of SEInforms Annual Meeting, 2024, Forthcoming, with Charles Kile
The Importance of Critical Thinking Skills to Successful Accounting Data Analytics— Audit Financiar, 2024, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 525-531, with Charles Kile and Elvis Meskovic
The Accounting Rate of Return and Economic Growth— Journal of Economic Insight, 2024, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 87-111, with Dave Ziebart
Does Prior Stock Return Correlation Predict Future Stock Return Correlation?— SN Business and Economics, 2023,Vol. 3, No. 176, Sole Authored
Data Analytics: Data-Informed Decisions—SAGE Skills: Business. SAGE Publications, Inc. 2023, with Sumantra Sarkar
A Correlation-based Portfolio Choice Algorithm—Handbook of Investment Analysis, Portfolio Management and Financial Derivatives, 2023, Chapter 48, World Scientific, with Joshua Madsen and Gordon Alexander
Time is of the Essence!: Retired Independent Directors’ Contributions to Board Effectiveness—Journal of Business Ethics 2021, Vol. 179. No. 3, pp. 767-793, with Pamela Brandes, Ravi Dwarwadkar and Linna Shi
The Determinants of Accounting Comparability Around the World—Asian Review of Accounting 2019, Vol. 28 No. 1, pp. 69-88, with Linna Shi and Hong Xie
A New Measure of Firm–Group Accounting Closeness—Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 2019, Vol. 52 No. 4, pp. 1137-1161, with Dave Ziebart and Anthony Meder
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