Haresh Sapra is the Charles T. Horngren Professor of Accounting at the

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specializing in the real effects of accounting disclosure and measurement rules. He is currently a senior editor of the

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. Sapra is an applied theorist who is best known for his research on the impact of mark-to-market accounting on bank stability and the role of accounting conservatism on debt contracting.

Education

Sapra graduated from the

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with a bachelor's degree in accounting in 1991. In 2000, he received a PhD in Business Administration from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

Career

Sapra has been a member of the faculty at the

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since 2000. He has been a visiting professor at

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. His current research focuses on the impact on loan loss provisioning models such as the Current Expected Credit Loss Model (CECL) on banking regulation.

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