Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.  Stanford, CA

• Ph.D. in Business Administration – Accounting.  June 2007

• M.Sc. in Statistics.  June 2004

Tel Aviv University, School of Economics and Faculty of Management.  Tel Aviv, Israel

• M.A. Economics.  June 2003

• B.A. in Accounting and Economics.  June 2001

Certified Public Accountant.  November 2003

University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business.  Los Angeles, CA

• Assistant Professor, 2007-Present

• Teaching MBA Core Course “GSBA 510: Accounting Concepts and Financial Reporting”, Fall 2007

• Financial Accounting, Asset Pricing, Financial Statement Analysis, Conservatism

Research Assistant, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, 2003-2007

• For Professors Mary E. Barth and Ron Kasznik

Instructor, Tel Aviv University, The Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration

• Financial Accounting, 2000, 2001, 2002 (Executive MBA); Managerial Accounting, 2000, 2001 (Executive MBA); Financial Statement Analysis, 2002 (MBA)

Teaching Assistant, Tel Aviv University, The Eitan Berglas School of Economics

• Advanced Macroeconomics II, 1998, 1999, 2000 (Economics Undergraduate)

Senior Expert, Israel Securities Authority, 1998-2003

• Work directly with the head of the Investment Management Department.  Consultant on issues related to regulating the investment industry in Israel

• Responsible for writing final certification exams for Investment Advice and Investment Portfolio Management licenses

Senior Financial Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2000-2002

• Valuation analysis of high-tech and industrial firms

• Preparation and auditing of financial statements of high-tech firms

• Regulation analysis of antitrust cases

Special Intelligence, Israel Defense Forces, 1993-1996

• Operational commander

• Barth M.E., Y. Konchitchki, and W.R. Landsman. (2007). “Cost of Capital and Financial Statements Transparency.” Working Paper, Stanford University.
• Konchitchki, Y. (2007). “Inflation and Nominal Financial Reporting: Implications for Performance and Stock Prices.” Ph.D. Thesis, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 92 pages.

• Aranya N., E. Yampuler, and Y. Konchitchki. (2002). “Accounting in Business.” Tel Aviv University Press, 743 pages.  Reprinted New Editions: 2003, 2004, 2005.

• “Evaluation of Accounting Measurement Attributes”

• “A Note on the Discontinuity in the Earnings Distribution: An Analytical Formulation of the Kink”

• “Strategic Herding in Financial Markets” (joint work with S. Joslin)

• Doctoral Fellowships, Stanford GSB, 2002-2007

• AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Lake Tahoe, CA, 2006

• Jaedicke Merit Award, for outstanding achievements in the Ph.D. program, Stanford GSB, 2003

• Magna Cum Laude, Tel Aviv University, 2002

• Annual Prize of the School of Economics, Tel Aviv University, 2000

• Special Program for Outstanding Students, Tel Aviv University, 1998-2001

• Awards for Excellence – Full Scholarship and Stipends, Tel Aviv University, 1997-2001

• Best-Operation Distinction, from the head of the Israeli Intelligence Services, 1995