Greg Sommers

Greg Sommers

Full-Time Faculty

Professor of Practice, Director, Master of Science in Accounting Program

Accounting

Email

gsommers@smu.edu

Phone

214-768-1188

Office

Crow 373

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Education

PhD, Accounting, Ohio State University

Biography

See CV

Teaching

Financial Accounting, Valuation, and Sustainability

Research

Valuation and Financial Statement Analysis

Publications

Valuation Using Financial Statements, 2nd edition by Gregory A. Sommers, Peter D. Easton, and Philip Drake Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation, 6th edition by Peter D. Easton, Mary Lea McAnally, Gregory A. Sommers and Xiao-Jun Zhang Two Different Ways of Treating Corporate Cash in FCF Valuations—and the Importance of Getting the Cost of Capital Right, with Peter D. Easton. Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Summer 2017, pp. 71-79. Fair Value’s Affect on Accounting’s Ability to Predict Future Cash Flows, with Keji Chen, Ramachandran Ramanan and Gary K. Taylor. Business Renaissance Quarterly, Summer/Fall 2013, pp. 21-33. Which Competitive Efforts Lead to Future Abnormal Economic Rents? Using Accounting Ratios to Assess Competitive Advantage, with Victoria Dickinson. Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, April/May 2012, pp. 360-398. Effect of Analysts’ Optimism on Estimates of the Expected Rate of Return Implied by Earnings Forecasts, with Peter D. Easton. Journal of Accounting Research, December 2007, pp. 983-1015. Scale and the Scale Effect in Market-Based Accounting Research, with Peter D. Easton. Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, January 2003, pp. 25-56.