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Surjit Tinaikar is the Department Chair and Associate Professor in the Accounting & Finance Department at the College of Management, University of Massachusetts Boston. He holds a PhD in Accounting from the University of Toronto, a Master of Science in Finance from Boston College, the CFA designation from the CFA Institute, an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, and a BA in Economics from the University of Bombay. Tinaikar's research focuses on financial reporting, managerial accounting, corporate finance, valuation, and investments.

His scholarly contributions appear in leading academic journals such as Accounting and Finance, Accounting Perspectives, Journal of Management and Governance, Corporate Ownership and Control, Journal of International Accounting Research, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, International Review of Economics and Finance, and Indian Journal of Finance and Banking. Key publications include "Accounting Based Valuation Models: What Have We Learned?" co-authored with Gordon Richardson (Accounting and Finance, 2004); "Outside Directors, Litigation Environment and Management Earnings Forecasts" (Accounting Perspectives, 2012); "Voluntary Disclosure and Ownership Structure: An Analysis of Dual Class Firms" (Journal of Management and Governance, 2014); "Pay Performance Sensitivity and Earnings Restatements" with Kun Yu (Corporate Ownership and Control, 2014); "Private Control Benefits and Informative Earnings Smoothing: Evidence from Dual Class Share Firms" (Journal of International Accounting Research, 2017); "Managerial Control Divergence and Analysts’ Information Precision" with KoEun Park and Yong-Chul Shin (Corporate Governance: An International Review, 2017); "Executive Compensation Disclosure and Private Control Benefits: A Comparison of U.S. and Canadian Dual Class Firms" (Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, 2017); "The Governance Role of Labor Unions in Improving Investment Efficiency" with Yu Zhang and Yong-Chul Shin (Indian Journal of Finance and Banking, 2022); and "Does Competition Exacerbate Investment Inefficiencies? Evidence from Japanese Firms" with Bo Xu (International Review of Economics and Finance, 2023). These works examine corporate governance, earnings quality, executive compensation, and investment decisions.