Study Group: Medical Devices Financial Statement Analysts(?)

Ronald A. Kiima is a former SEC Assistant Chief Accountant. Mr. Kiima is currently the President of Kiima Incorporated, a private consulting firm specializing in SEC accounting and disclosure issues, SEC registration statements and periodic reports, SEC investigations and enforcement proceedings, corporate...

Anthony H. Catanach Jr., PhD, is a Professor in the Strategic Initiatives Group of the Villanova University School of Business. He also is a Director at DI2 Associates, a Pennsylvania based accounting and reporting consulting firm. Dr. Catanach has expertise in the areas of business risk management...

Paul Miller, PhD, is a Professor of Accounting at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Dr. Miller has over 35 years of teaching, professional, and regulatory experience in financial reporting, GAAP, with service on the staffs of both FASB and the SEC. He holds a PhD degree from the University...

Dr. Bartov, PhD, CPA, is a Research Professor of Accounting at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He has authored numerous scholarly articles on issues of accounting earnings manipulations, earnings quality, equity valuation, executive stock options, insider trading, market efficiency,...

Noah Barsky, PhD, is a Financial Services Professor at the Villanova University School of Business. His research and teaching focus on contemporary financial reporting, performance measurement, business planning, and risk assessment. Dr. Barsky’s professional experience includes work as an analyst,...

Alfred S. Blazek has been a Finance Director with Whirlpool since October 2007. Mr. Blazek previously served as the Chief Financial Officer for Circuit City's National Service group and a member of the corporate Innovation team. He held this role from 2003 until 2007. In this capacity he was directly...