Robert H. Ashton, L. Palmer Fox Professor of Management Accounting

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Web Page:	http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~rha2/bio/index.htm

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	1973
M.B.A.	Florida State University	1969
B.S.	Middle Tennessee State University	1968

Research Interests: Management Accounting, Strategic Cost Management, Performance Measurement and Evaluation, Relation of Accounting Measures to Firm Strategy

Areas of Interest:

Behavioral Decision Theory and Its Application to Management Accounting and External Auditing Issues

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Ashton, RH; Roberts, ML, Effects of dispositional motivation on knowledge and performance in tax issue identification and research, The Journal of the American Taxation Association, vol. 33 no. 1 (August, 2011), pp. 25-50, American Accounting Association, ISSN 0198-9073 [doi]  [abs]
2. Ashton, RH, Quality,Timing, and Luck: Looking Back at Ashton (1974), Auditing: a Journal of Practice & Theory, vol. 29 no. 1 (May, 2010), pp. 3-13, American Accounting Association, ISSN 0278-0380 [doi]
3. Ashton, RH, Value-Creation Models for Value-Based Management: Review, Analysis, and Research Directions, Advances in Management Accounting, vol. 16 (April, 2007), pp. 1-62, Emerald (MCB UP ), ISSN 1474-7871 [doi]  [abs]
4. Davis, EB; Ashton, RH, Threshold adjustment in response to asymmetric loss functions: The case of auditors' "substantial doubt" thresholds, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 89 no. 2 (November, 2002), pp. 1082-1099, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs]
5. Ashton, RH; Kennedy, J, Eliminating Recency with Self-Review: The Case of Auditors' 'Going Concern' Judgments, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, vol. 15 no. 3 (January, 2002), pp. 221-231, WILEY [doi]  [abs]