Ken Merkley is the Conrad Prebys Professor of Accounting at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He received a PhD from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Kelley, he taught in the residential MBA program at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. His teaching focuses on financial reporting and financial statement analysis. He has received recognition for his teaching at both Cornell and Indiana University and in 2014 was named to Poet & Quants Top 40 Business School Professors Under 40.
His research focuses on the role of information in capital markets and the importance of information intermediaries such as analysts, auditors, and lawyers. His work has been published in top scholarly journals (the Journal of Finance, Journal of Accounting & Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, the Accounting Review, the Review of Accounting Studies, Management Science, and Contemporary Accounting Research) and featured in the business media (Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, BBC World Service, Forbes, and Reuters) and SEC speeches, comment letters, and rule proposals.
He is an editor at the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, serves on the editorial board of the Accounting Review, and regularly reviews articles for top accounting and finance publications.