Musaib Ashraf
Email: musaib@msu.edu
Assistant Professor
Department: Accounting and Information Systems
Phone: (517) 355-7486
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Biography
Dr. Musaib Ashraf obtained his PhD in Accounting from The University of Arizona in 2020 and joined Michigan State University the same year. He teaches an accounting analytics course (which covers data analytics, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity) to accounting graduate students, and his research focuses on organizational economics and capital markets. In particular, Dr. Ashraf studies emerging technologies (e.g., cybersecurity, automation, artificial intelligence, and other topics at the intersection of accounting and information technology), corporate governance (e.g., audit committees), and financial reporting (e.g., internal controls).
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Publications
Article“The Impact of Audit Committee Information Technology Expertise on the Reliability and Timeliness of Financial Reporting”
-Coauthored with Paul Michas and Dan Russomanno
-Published in The Accounting Review (September 2020)
-Download Link: https://pubs.musaibashraf.com/Ashraf_Michas_and_Russomanno_2020.pdfArticle"The Role of Peer Events in Corporate Governance: Evidence from Data Breaches”
-Solo authored
-Published in The Accounting Review (March 2022)
-Download Link: https://pubs.musaibashraf.com/Ashraf_2022.pdfArticle“Are There Trade-Offs with Mandating Timely Disclosure of Cybersecurity Incidents? Evidence from State-Level Data Breach Disclosure Laws”
-Coauthored with John Jiang and Isabel Wang
-Published in The Journal of Finance and Data Science (November 2022)
-Download Link: https://pubs.musaibashraf.com/Ashraf_Jiang_and_Wang_2022.pdfArticle“Can shareholders benefit from consumer protection disclosure mandates? Evidence from data breach disclosure laws”
-Coauthored with Jayanthi Sunder
-Published in The Accounting Review (July 2023)
-Download Link: https://pubs.musaibashraf.com/Ashraf_and_Sunder_2023.pdfArticle“Are Audit Committees Overloaded? Evidence From The Effect Of Financial Risk Management Oversight On Financial Reporting Quality”
-Coauthored with Preeti Choudhary and Jacob Jaggi
-Forthcoming in Management Science
-Download Link: https://pubs.musaibashraf.com/Ashraf_Choudhary_and_Jaggi_2024.pdfArticle“Does Automation Improve Financial Reporting? Evidence from Internal Controls”
-Solo authored
-Forthcoming in Review of Accounting Studies
-Download Link: https://pubs.musaibashraf.com/Ashraf_2024.pdfArticle“Fair Value Accounting Standards and Securities Litigation”
-Coauthored with Dain Donelson, John McInnis, and Richard Mergenthaler
-Forthcoming in Journal of Accounting and Economics
-Download Link: https://pubs.musaibashraf.com/Ashraf_Donelson_McInnis_and_Mergenthaler_2024.pdfArticle.
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