Joseph Comprix

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, and 2013. 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 and the Journal of the American Taxation Association.

Research Topics

• Pensions
• Accounting Restatements
• International Financial Reporting Standards

Financial Accounting

Professor Comprix’s research is focused on pension accounting, accounting restatements, and International Financial Reporting Standards.

Selected Publications

• "Does Auditor Size Matter? Evidence from Small Audit Firms", Advances in Accounting, 31(1), 11-20, 2015 (with Huang, H.)
• "Earnings management and the allocation of net periodic pension costs to interim periods", Advances in Accounting, 29(1), 27-35, 2013 (with Blankley, A., Hong, K.)
• "Firm location and earnings management: Korean evidence", Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, 19(3), 292-317, 2012 (with Nam, H., Choi, J., Kwon, H.)
• "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.)
• "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.)
• "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.)
• "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, E.)

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)

• Nicholson, Comprix and Harter named 2011 Whitman Professors of the Year 5.26.11
  Amanda Nicholson, assistant professor of retail management in the Whitman School of Management, has been chosen as 2011 Undergraduate Professor of the Year. Joseph Comprix, assistant professor of accounting, and Don Harter, associate dean for masters programs and assistant professor of management in Read more>>