Heidi Landherr

Heidi Landherr is working towards her MS degree in Accounting and Information Systems at The University of Kansas. Professor Allen Ford will be her E&Y Faculty Mentor. As an E&Y Student Fellow, she will help students in the first tax class with problems they might be having in class. She will have office hours and help grade quizzes and exams. Also, she will grade homework. In addition, she will provide research assistance for Professor Ford, especially during the second semester after she has completed the tax research class.

Jason Mitchell

Jason Mitchell is majoring in Accounting and Business Administration at KU. His E&Y Faculty Mentor is Professor Vern Richardson. Jason will work on two different projects. The first will be looking at the earnings-return relationship in the absence of short-selling. The second project will be looking at the relationship between IT Spending and Firm Risk. Jason, as an E&Y Fellow, will help Professor Richardson collect data and perform some preliminary data analysis.

Shally Garach

Shally Garach is working for her Master of Accounting & Information Systems degree at The University of Kansas. As an E&Y Student Fellow, Shally will help Professor Scholz in her research on reporting misstatements/restatements. In particular, this year's project will compare the change in misstatements pre- and post Enron and Sarbanes Oxley. Shally's data collection work will include Lexis-Nexis, corporate governance and perhaps some Compustat. Professor Scholz, as her E&Y Faculty Mentor, says "... I will do my best to make sure the student gets some valuable exposure to different accounting issues and databases as well."

Jimmy Dai

Jimmy Dai is working for his Master of Accounting & Information Systems degree at The University of Kansas. As an E&Y Student Fellow, Jimmy will help Professor Scholz in her research on reporting misstatements/restatements. In particular, he will find restatements announced in 204 to add to database. Professor Scholz, as his E&Y Faculty Mentor, says "... I will do my best to make sure the student gets some valuable exposure to different accounting issues and databases as well."

Srikanth Pyneni

Srikanth Pyneni will work on the research project "FRAANK." This project is being developed at the School of Business, University of Kansas, as an on-going project on "Financial Reporting and Auditing Agent with Net Knowledge." This project involves programming in Perl and SQL database languages to access financial and non-financial information through the Internet of publicly held companies from the SEC Database called 'Edgar'. The responsibility involves the student to write codes in Perl to parse the information on the financial statement to collect desired financial and non-financial information.

Melanie Gao

Melanie Gao is a PhD student in Accounting Information Systems. She will be working with Professor Raj Srivastava as her E&Y Faculty Mentor. Her dissertation deals with "The Decomposition and Prediction of Fraud Schemes: An Analysis of Account schemes and Evidence Schemes."