Keith Walker, Ph.D.
Bio
Dr. Keith Walker joins the John B. and Lillian E. Neff College of Business and聽Innovation as an Assistant Professor of Accounting. He comes to The University聽of Toledo from Southern Illinois University 鈥� Carbondale with four years of聽experience teaching taxation and financial accounting courses. Dr. Walker holds聽a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Texas Tech University and a Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Accountancy degree from Kennesaw聽State University.
At 兔子先生传媒文化作品, Dr. Walker teaches Individual Taxation and Taxation of Business聽Entities. His teaching and research interests are rooted in his professional聽experiences. Before beginning the doctoral program, Dr. Walker worked for six聽years as a public accountant at Murphy & McInvale CPAs, servicing the greater聽Metro-Atlanta area.
His research focuses on taxation, corporate governance, and the intersection of聽the two. His dissertation, 鈥淐EO Decision Horizon and Corporate Tax Avoidance,鈥澛爁ocuses on how the chief executive officer decision horizon affects corporate tax聽avoidance and finds that executives with shorter decision horizons are聽associated with lower levels of tax avoidance compared to firms with long聽horizon CEOs.
Recently, Dr. Walker's paper, 鈥淭he Relation Between Equity Incentives and聽Earnings Management through Permanently Reinvested Foreign Earnings for聽U.S. Multinational Corporations,鈥� was accepted at Advances in Taxation. This paper examines whether the equity incentives of management are associated聽with the increased use of PRE, and finds strong evidence that the changes in PRE聽are positively associated with the portion of top managers鈥� compensation that聽is tied to stock performance.
Education
Texas Tech University聽
Ph.D. in Business Administration (2016)
Kennesaw State University
Master of Accountancy (2009)
Kennesaw State University
Bachelor of Business Administration (2007)