Dr. Sherman earned an AB in Economics from Brandeis University and MBA and DBA degrees from Harvard Business School. He is a Certified Public Accountant, has served as director and CFO of several businesses, and has consulted on financial performance issues with major corporations. His research interests include financial reporting, performance measurement and management, and financial literacy issues facing corporate managers and boards of directors in global businesses. His publications have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Bank Cost and Management Accounting, American Banker, Management Accounting, Medical Care, and the Annals of Operations Research, among others. He has written several monographs and is a co-author of the book, Profits You Can Trust: Spotting and Surviving Accounting Landmines, which provides a framework to enhance financial literacy of users of shareholder reports.
While at the Commission, the academic accounting fellow addresses issues involving difficult and unusual accounting, auditing, and financial reporting questions; reviews filings by public companies to identify significant accounting and disclosure problems; and participates in research projects pertaining to current financial reporting issues. Dr. Sherman replaces the outgoing academic accounting fellow, Mary Brady Greenawalt.
