Education
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Masters of Public Health (MPH), Harvard School of Public Health
Masters of Science in Physics, Punjab University, India
Areas of Expertise
Managerial Accounting focusing
on organizational and incentive systems to help manage costs
and promote effective control of operations and personnel
Background
Assistant Chancellor, UMass Boston,
1999-2000
Associate Provost, UMass Boston, 1998-1999.
Associate Professor, UMass Boston, 1992-Current
Visiting Assistant Professor at the MIT Sloan School, 1990-1992
Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School, 1986-1990
Courses Taught
Accounting for Managers, Advanced
Accounting, Managerial Accounting and Control, Financial Management
of Healthcare Systems
Research Interests
Study of cost effective management
systems in the for-profit and the not-for-profit sectors with
special emphasis on healthcare organizations
Selected Publications
Machuga, S. M., Pfeiffer, R.
J., and Verma, K., 2002. “Economic Value Added, Future
Accounting Changes, and Financial Analysts’ Earning
Per Share Forecasts,” Review
of Quantitative Finance and Accounting,
Volume 18, pp 59-73.
Bandopadhyaya, A., and Verma, K., 2001,“ Managerial
Incumbency and the Outcome of the Reorganization Process under
Chapter 11: An Empirical Analysis.” Advances
in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting,
Volume 9, pp. 31-53.
Verma K. , Milledge, V., and Wiest, D., 2001,“ Measurement
of Corporate Environmental Performance: Role of the Regulatory
Enforcement Policies in the Oil and Gas Industry.” Advances
in Public Interest Accounting,
Volume 8, pp. 215-238.
Verma, K., Mitnick, B. M., and Marcus, A. A., "Making
Incentive Systems Work: Incentive Regulation in the Nuclear
Power Industry," Journal
of Public Administration Research and Theory
(July 1999), vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 395-436.
Verma, K., Discussant’s review of the paper, “
An Analysis of the Role of Moral Intensity in Auditing Judgments,”
by Ketchand, A. A., Morris, R. E., and Shafer, W. E., in
Research in Accounting Ethics,
Vol. V.
Caro, F. G., Glickman, L. L., Ingeneri, D., Porell, F., Stern,
A., and Verma, K., 1997. “The Impact of the Closing
of Three Massachusetts Public Chronic Hospitals: A Multidimensional
Perspective”, Journal
of Community Health, Vol.
22, No. 3, pp. 155-174.
Verma, Kiran, 1996. " Covert Costs of Privatization:
Lessons from the Closure of Three Public Chronic Care Hospitals
in Massachusetts". Public
Budgeting and Finance,
Volume 16, No. 3, (Fall), pp. 49-62.
Verma, K., and A. Marcus, 1995. "Causes and Effects of
Rising Production Costs in the U.S. Nuclear Power Industry".
Industrial and Environmental Crisis Quarterly, Special Issue,
Managing with Danger, Volume 9, Number 2, pp. 242-258.
Professional Activities
Member of the American Accounting
Association
Honors
Faculty Appreciation recognition
in 1997
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