Kenneth Njoroge

Associate Professor

Dean's Research Fellow: 2020-2022
Area: Accounting
Phone: 757-221-2045
Email: [[m|ken.njoroge]]
Office: Miller Hall 3007

Biography

Kenneth Njoroge is an Associate Professor of Accounting at William & Mary, where he has been teaching since 2015, initially as an Assistant Professor. He previously held academic positions at the University of Iowa, University of Oregon, Duke University, and the University of Nebraska. Kenneth has published extensively in top journals such as The Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research, and he has several working papers in progress targeting leading academic journals.

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Ph.D., Accounting, Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Durham, NC (May 2009)
MS, Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (2003)
BS, Agricultural, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Associate Professor of Accounting, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 2021-present
Assistant Professor of Accounting, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 2015-2021
Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2014-2015
Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 2009-2014
Research and teaching assistant, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2004-2009
Research assistant, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 2000-2003

10-K Complexity, Analysts' Forecasts and Price Discovery in Capital Markets - with Jamie Diaz and Phil Shane, Accounting & Finance, 2024
Allocation of Internal Cash Flow when Firms Pay Less Tax - with Dave Guenther and Brian Williams, The Accounting Review, 2020
An Examination of the Statistical Significance and Economic Implications of Model-Based and Analyst Earnings Forecasts - with Mark Evans and Kevin Yong, Contemporary Accounting Research, 2017
Implicit Costs of Trade Credit Borrowing by Large Firms - with Justin Murfin, The Review of Financial Studies, 2015
Machine learning implications for ESG investing in ETFs - with Brian Williams (data analysis stage)
Customer and Supplier Tax rates and Trade Credit Use - with Margot Howard (Reviewing for submission targeting top journals)
Matching Unusualness and Price Discovery - with Ro Gutierrez (writing stage, targeting top journals)
Non-classical Measurement Errors in Accounting Research - Single authored (writing stage)
Asymmetry of CEO Cash Compensation and Option Vegas: A Dynamic Analysis - with John Boschen and Kim Smith (Data analysis almost complete, first draft underway - targeting top accounting journals)
Market reaction following announcements of gun control measures by publicly traded firms - with Marc Picconi (Data analysis complete, now in writing stage - targeting Journal of Business Ethics)
Span of Control and consequences in subjective performance evaluation systems - with Alex Woods (Data analysis stage)
10K Complexity, Analyst Forecasts and Price Discovery in Capital Markets - with Jamie Diaz and Phil Shane

What are the market and regulatory conditions under which livestock mandatory reporting would benefit livestock producers? 2007. Southern Economic Journal 74, 1: 290-311
Information pooling and collusion: Implications for the livestock mandatory reporting act. 2003. Journal of Food and Industrial Organization 1, Article 14

Accounting for Decision Making (MBA), spring 2023-present
Financial statement analysis (MAcc/MBA), spring 2019-present
Corporate Greed (BBA/BS/BA), spring 2023-present
Intermediate Financial Accounting I-MAC Prep (MAcc Boot Camp), summer 2016-present
Data and Analysis in Accounting Research (MAcc/MBA), spring 2019-present
Financial reporting and analysis (BBA), fall 2015-fall 2017
Current Research in Accounting (MAcc/MBA), fall 2015-present
Intermediate financial accounting II at University of Iowa, fall 2014-spring 2015
Cost Accounting at University of Oregon, fall 2009-spring 2014
Financial Accounting at Duke University, summer 2008

The Accounting Review
Journal of Management and Accounting Research

Faculty Affairs Committee
Curriculum committee (chair)
BBA strategic planning committee
Faculty representative for W&M student conduct hearings

Does Financial Analyst Scrutiny of Information in 10-K Financial Reports Generate Value-Relevant Information for Investors? Virginia Commonwealth University, March 2018
"What do firms do with the cash from tax savings?" Virginia Accounting Research Conference, May 2016
"Accrual reliability and the business cycle" University of New Hampshire, December 2013
"Accrual reliability and the business cycle" William & Mary, 2014
"An Examination of Economic and Statistical Approaches that Address Sample Selection Bias, Inaccuracy, and Optimism in Analysts' Earnings Forecasts" University of Utah, April 2010
"An Examination of Economic and Statistical Approaches that Address Sample Selection Bias, Inaccuracy, and Optimism in Analysts' Earnings Forecasts" UBCOW conference, University of Washington, September 2010
"Small lending big: The real effects of trade credit demands on constrained suppliers" Western Region meeting, American Accounting Association, April 2011
"Accrual reliability as a measure of reliability" University of Rochester, 2009
"Accrual reliability as a measure of reliability" University of Oregon, 2009
"Accrual reliability as a measure of reliability" The Ohio State University, 2009

Dean's Research Fellow, 2017-present
The Alfred N. Page Graduate Teaching Award, 2019
American Accounting Association Deloitte Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2008
The J.B. Hassler Research Award, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 2003
The Outstanding MS. Student Award, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 2003
Agricultural and good industrial organization outstanding research creativity award, 2003

Virginia Accounting Research Conference 2016, 2017, 2018
Duke/UNC fall camp 2004-2008, 2016
Global Issues in Accounting Conference, University of North Carolina, 2007
Finance and Economics Conference, University of North Carolina, 2007
Review of Accounting Studies Conference, Duke, 2008
UBCOW conference, University of Washington, 2010-2013, 2017
Western Region American Accounting Association, 2011

Area sales manager, Rhone ∼ Poulenc Kenya Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya, 1995-1998
Area sales manager, Chemagro Kenya Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya, 1992-1995
Farm manager, Gatoka Roses Ltd., Thika, Kenya, 1997-1992

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