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H. Fred Mittelstaedt

Professor
Deloitte Foundation Professor of Accountancy and Chairperson

BIO

H. Fred Mittelstaedt is the Deloitte Foundation Professor of Accountancy and Department Chair at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests lie in financial reporting and pension and retiree health benefits, and his research has been published in accounting and finance journals. Mittelstaedt has taught courses in financial reporting at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is a coauthor of Financial Reporting & Analysis (5th Ed.)

Honors and distinctions include the Kaneb Undergraduate Teaching Award and the Executive MBA Outstanding Teacher Award. Mittelstaedt also has given Congressional testimony on retiree health benefits. He previously was a member of the editorial advisory and review board for The Accounting Review.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Financial Accounting
  • Pension and Retiree Health Benefits

EDUCATION

  • BS, Illinois State University
  • MS, Illinois State University
  • Ph D, University of Illinois

TEACHING

  • Financial Reporting II
  • Corporate Financial Reporting II

HOMEPAGE

PUBLICATIONS

"Research and Ethical Issues Related to Retirement Plans,"  Journal of Business Ethics, 52, 2004, 153-159.

"The Relative Reliability of Financial Statement Recognition and Disclosure: Evidence from SFAS No. 106," (with Paquita Davis-Friday, C. Liu),  Contemporary Accounting Research, 21, 2004, 399-427.

"An Empirical Analysis of the Investment Performance of the Chilean Pension System," (with J. C. Olsen),  Journal of Pension Economics & Finance, 2, 2003, 24-Jul.

"Materiality Judgments and Disclosure of Retiree Health Care Costs Under SFAS No.81," (with C. Liu),  Review of Accounting Studies, 7, 2002, 405-434.

"Synopsis of the Value Relevance of Financial Statement Recognition Versus Disclosure: Evidence from SFAS No. 106," (with Paquita Davis-Friday, L. B. Folami, C. Liu),  , 2000.

"The Value Relevance of Financial Statement Recognition Versus Disclosure: Evidence from SFAS No. 106," (with Paquita Davis-Friday, L. B. Folami, C. Liu),  The Accounting Review, 74, No 4, 1999, 403-423.

Books

Financial Reporting & Analysis, (with Lawrence Revsine, Daniel W. Collins, W. Bruce Johnson, ), McGraw-Hill (January (1st Quarter/Winter)2011).

Financial Reporting & Analysis, (with Lawrence Revsine, Daniel W. Collins, W. Bruce Johnson, ), McGraw-Hill (2008).