George E.

Batta
Assistant Professor of Economics-Accounting Claremont McKenna College 500 E. 9th St. Claremont, CA 91711 george.batta@cmc.edu office: 909.607.7260 EDUCATION Harvard University Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) Special Field: Accounting & Control Thesis Committee: Paul Healy, Krishna Palepu (co-chairs), George Chacko -Honors: High Pass, D.B.A. General Examination CAMBRIDGE, MA June 2005

University of California, Berkeley BERKELEY, CA A.B. in Political Economy, minor in Business Administration May 1998 -Honors: Phi Beta Kappa Society; High Distinction in Scholarship at graduation (equivalent to Magna Cum Laude); Honors-to-date at graduation RESEARCH Research Fields: General: Financial accounting and reporting Specific: Credit analysis, financial statement analysis Published Paper: A liquidity-based explanation of convertible arbitrage alphas, with G. Chacko (Santa Clara University) and B, Dharan (Harvard Law School and Charles River Associates), 2010, Journal of Fixed Income 20: 28-43. Working Papers: Financial statement recasting and credit risk assessment, with J. Rosett and A. Ganguly (Claremont McKenna College).

Rating agency and equity analysts adjustments to GAAP earnings, with V. Muslu (University of Texas, Dallas). Equity misvaluation and corporate bankruptcy prediction, with W. Wongsunwai (Northwestern University). Disclosure-derived financial statement adjustments in equity valuation, with J. Rosett and A. Ganguly (Claremont McKenna College). Papers in Progress: Expropriation risk and corporate financial reporting and policy, with M. Weidenmier (Claremont McKenna College) and R. Sucre (Universidad Central de Venezuela). Human capital portability: The effect of star winemakers on wine quality, with J. Rosett (Claremont McKenna College).

TEACHING AND COURSE DEVELOPMENT Teaching Experience: Claremont McKenna College, Financial Statement Analysis 2008-2009 Claremont McKenna College, Accounting for Decision-making 2007-2010 University of Southern California: School of Accounting, Financial Reporting & Analysis Spring 2007 University of Southern California: School of Accounting, Internal Reporting Issues Fall 2006 & Spring 2007 Harvard Business School: Pre-M.B.A. Analytics Program, course assistant August 2004 Harvard Business School: Financial Reporting & Control, biweekly review sessions Fall 2003 Harvard University: Department of Economics, Financial Accounting, biweekly review sessions Summer 2003 Teaching Material: Delays at Logan Airport Case and Problem Set (with V.G. Narayanan) Queuing Theory Technical Note PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE NERA Economic Consulting 2006 Special Consultant 2005 - 2006 Consultant Charter-Interlink Consulting, Pty. Ltd. 2000 Associate Consultant Ernst and Young, L.L.P. 1998-2000 Financial Auditor OTHER ACTIVITIES Invited presentation, FARS Midyear Conference, January 2011 Invited presentation, American Accounting Association Conference, August 2009 Invited presentation, Southern California Accounting Research Forum, November 2008 Invited presentation, Santa Clara University, December 2007 Invited presentation, FARS Midyear Conference, January 2007 Referee, American Accounting Association, FARS Midyear Conference, 2007 & 2011 Invited participant, Journal of Accounting and Economics Conference, October 2004, Ann Arbor, MI Invited participant, Deloitte and Touche Foundation Doctoral Consortium, June 2004, Lake Tahoe, CA New York, New York

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