Study Group: Retail Industry 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...

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,...

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...

Larry Katzen is a board member for The Mens Wearhouse, where he is a member of the audit and compensation committees. Mr. Katzen is also a board member for Wayport, a privately held wireless co. located in Dallas, TX, where he is chairman of the audit committee and member of the governance committee...

Michael Schwindle is the Chief Financial Officer at Musician's Friend, Inc., an online retailer. Prior to that, Mr. Schwindle was a former subsidiary CFO for The Home Depot, a GA-based home-improvement retailer. He has over 18 years of experience as accounting and finance executive, predominately in...

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,...

Dwight Crawley is an Chief Financial Officer at Coverall Concepts, a commercial cleaning company, where he has worked since October 2007. Mr. Crawley is an experience financial executive with experience in several companies as Chief Financial Officer. Previously, he was a Chief Financial Officer at...

Edward Weinstein is a consultant and advisor to businesses and other organizations, an arbitrator and board member of commercial and not for profit organizations. Mr. Weinstein most recently worked with Deloitte and Touche for 40 years, and retired as a Senior Partner in the New York office in 1998....