Rita Nevada Gunn
Research Interests/Areas of Expertise
Empirical archival, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, financial reporting
Subject Areas
Accounting
Empirical archival, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, financial reporting
Accounting
Professor Gunn is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Vanderbilt. Her research interests include mergers and acquisitions, intangible assets and goodwill, and financial disclosure.
Her current research projects include:
Rita was Valedictorian of her Accounting class at N.C. State.
Professor Gunn’s teaching focuses on financial accounting. She teaches Financial Fundamentals for Non-Accountants, an executive education course. In addition, she teaches Financial Reporting I in the MBA, MAcc, and MsF program and the Essentials of Financial Reporting for the Undergraduate Business Minor.
Professor Gunn examines the impacts to financial reporting and capital markets of mergers and acquisitions.
PhD, Accounting, Northwestern University
BS, Accounting, North Carolina State University
BA, Economics, North Carolina State University