
Joseph Comprix
Chair, Joseph I. Lubin School of Accounting
Professor of Accounting
Room: 611
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Ph D, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Accounting)
Professor Comprix has worked as a staff accountant and accounting manager at Mead Corp. He holds a PhD in accounting from the University of Illinois and taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Arizona State University before joining the Whitman School. He currently teaches financial accounting in the MBA program. Professor Comprix has been a member of the Whitman faculty since 2008. He was chosen as the Whitman Graduate Faculty of the year for 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2017. He also received an Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award from the Graduate College in 2012 - one of only six awards campus-wide in 2012. Professor Comprix has published in journals such as the Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Marketing, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, and the Journal of the American Taxation Association.
Research Topics
- Pensions
- Accounting Restatements
- Taxation
Financial Accounting
Professor Comprix’s research is focused on pension accounting, accounting restatements, and taxation.
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
- "The Role of Gender in the Aggressive Questioning of CEOs during Earnings Conference Calls", The Accounting Review, 2022 (with Lopatta, K., Tideman, S.)
- "Complaint Publicization in Social Media", Journal of Marketing, 85(6), 1-23, 2021 (with Golmohammadi, A., Havakhor, T., Gauri, D.)
- "Why You Shouldn’t Engage with Customer Complaints on Twitter", Harvard Business Review, 2021 (with Golmohammadi, A., Havakhor, T., Gauri, D.)
- "State Pension Accounting Estimates and Public Union Membership", Contemporary Accounting Research, 36(3), 1299-1336, 2019 (with Bonsall, S., Muller, K.)
- "Bias in quarterly estimates of annual effective tax rates and earnings management", Journal of the American Taxation Association, 34(1), 31-53, 2012 (with Mills, L., Schmidt, A.)
- "Empirical evidence on the impact of book-tax differences on divergence of opinion among investors", Journal of the American Taxation Association, 33(1), 51-78, 2011 (with Graham, R., Moore, J.)
- "Pension plan accounting estimates and the freezing of defined benefit pension plans", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 51(1-2), 115-133, 2011 (with Muller, K.)
- "Asymmetric treatment of reported pension expense and income amounts in CEO cash compensation calculations", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 42(3), 385-416, 2006 (with Muller, III, K.)
- "The financial expertise of CFOs and accounting restatements", Accounting Horizons, 19(3), 123-135, 2005 (with Aier, J., Gunlock, M., Lee, D.)
Awards and Honors
- Whitman School of Management Graduate Faculty of the Year - Syracuse University (2017)
- Guttag Junior Faculty Research Fellowship Award - Whitman (2013)
- Whitman School of Management Graduate Faculty of the Year - Syracuse University (2013)
- Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award - Syracuse University (2012)
- Outstanding Teacher in the Defense Controllership Program (voted by the students) - Syracuse University (2012)
- Whitman School of Management Graduate Faculty of the Year - Syracuse University (2012)
- Whitman School of Management Graduate Faculty of the Year - Syracuse University (2011)
- Outstanding Teacher in the Defense Controllership Program - Syracuse University (2009)