Andy Call is Dean of the Leventhal School of Accounting and the Alan Casden Dean’s Chair at the University of Southern California. Professor Call’s research focuses on the activities of Wall Street analysts and their impact on the capital markets, managers’ forward-looking earnings guidance, the role of the media in disseminating accounting information, and the involvement of employee whistleblowers in the discovery of financial misreporting. His research has been published in leading academic journals, including Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and Review of Accounting Studies, and has been featured in many prominent media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, CFO Magazine, The Motley Fool, and CNBC. Professor Call currently serves as an editor at The Accounting Review, has taught financial reporting topics to both undergraduate and graduate students, and has received numerous teaching and research awards.
Prior to joining the Leventhal School of Accounting, Professor Call served as the Director of the School of Accountancy at Arizona State University and began his career as an assistant professor of accounting at the University of Georgia. He graduated with a PhD in accounting from the University of Washington, after earning his MAcc and BS degrees in accounting at Brigham Young University.