Dr. William Cready
- Professor of Accounting
- Adolf Enthoven Chair in Accounting and Information Management
The endowment was established by the late Dr. Adolf J.H. Enthoven, a longtime accounting professor at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, to support the research and scholarly activities of the chair holder. Cready assumed the position in July 2014.
“I feel privileged that I’ve been recognized with such an honor. It’s something I really never would have expected when I started out on this career path.”
Dr. William Cready became interested in examining investors’ trading responses to accounting information at The Ohio State University, where he was a doctoral student. During his doctoral program’s weekly workshop, several papers regarding trading volume were presented.
The papers piqued his interest because he wanted to learn more about how different types of investors trade in similar or differing fashions. Since then, he has concentrated his research in this area and has published numerous articles in leading journals.
Cready also studies how items are reported on income statements, particularly a classification known as “special items.” He has been involved in several studies that explored the implications of classifying these items on manager compensation and stock price valuation and whether the special items serve as vehicles for hiding more ordinary expenses. He also studies the relationship between aggregate earnings and stock market returns.
Cready serves as the area coordinator for accounting in the Naveen Jindal School of Management. He is a certified public accountant and management accountant.
Previously receiving the Ashbel Smith Professorship and his students’ achievements are among his career highlights.
“The success of the students I’ve worked with has really been something I’m proud of,” he said.
He is an editorial board member of The International Journal of Accounting, Contemporary Accounting Research, and The Accounting Review. He also has served as an editorial board member of Accounting Horizons.
He began his formal academic career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he won a Favorite Faculty Award for teaching. He also taught at Texas A&M University and Louisiana State University before joining The University of Texas at Dallas in 2004. He earned his bachelor of science in accounting from the University of Alabama. For his graduate work, he attended Ohio State, where he earned a master’s and PhD in accounting.