Inside the Mind of
Richard Crowley
Richard Crowley serves as Assistant Professor of Accounting at Singapore Management University. He received his PhD in Accountancy from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and received Bachelor's degrees in Accountancy, Finance, and Theoretical Mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2012. His research examines financial accounting using both archival and analytical methods. Much of his archival work deals with large sets of unstructured data (e.g., textual disclosures) using high-powered computing algorithms to address accounting issues that are otherwise infeasible to approach.
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There's actually a lot of research in psychology and communications where they find that if you're lying to somebody, you're very intentional about what you say; you dance around the topics you don't want to talk about. We're taking this idea and incorporating it to companies as a whole.