Dr. Asokan Anandarajan received his PhD from Drexel University, Philadelphia in 1995. He is currently a professor of accounting and information systems at NJIT. He is a British qualified Chartered Management Accountant (CMA). His research interests relate to judgment and decision making in accounting. Professor Anandarajan's primary research investigates value relevance of reported earnings by companies and factors influencing value relevance on a global scale. His other research interests include corporate governance and techniques to detect accounting fraud. His teaching interests include, Financial accounting, Managerial accounting and accounting information systems. He has published papers in journals including, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons, Accounting and Finance, Advances in Accounting, Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, Behavioral Research in Accounting, International Journal of Intelligent systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, Journal of Financial Services Research, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting among others.