Connie D. Weaver

Associate Professor of Accounting
PhD: Arizona State University
Recent Affiliation: University of Texas

“What A&M offers is an excellent accounting program that is undervalued by the rest of the world. As a tax accounting professor, I’d like to help bring us to the forefront. A&M is really going places, and so is this program.”

When Connie Weaver researched as a tax consultant for Ernst & Young, her job was to answer the questions clients posed. Those questions led to her own examination of business practices, and today the accounting professor gauges how tax legislation really affects corporate behavior.

From dissertation work examining the impact of the taxable deduction of goodwill in mergers and acquisitions to her recent work on stock options and financial accounting, Weaver monitors company structure and develops new measures to help assess governance habits. Diving into earnings management with Mays co-author Mary Lea McAnally, the new Mays addition measures how business managers tinker with income to affect the stock price around stock option grants, exercises and holdings.

Weaver was a Deloitte & Touche Centennial Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas and recipient of the Master in Professional Accounting Council’s 2006 Outstanding Accounting Faculty Award for outstanding teaching in accounting. She is a member of The Journal of the American Taxation Association editorial board and has been an invited presenter at 40 major conferences and accounting workshops across the nation and in Canada. Weaver has more than a dozen papers published or in progress in well-known tax and accounting journals.


September/ October 2006
New Faculty Members Murray Barrick Sudheer Chava Joseph E. Coombs Neal E. Galpin Sanjay Jain Ramkumar Janakiraman Michael K. Shaub Abbie J. Shipp David G. Sirmon Connie D. Weaver Ryan D. Zimmerman By Sommer Hamilton	Connie D. Weaver Associate Professor of Accounting PhD: Arizona State University Recent Affiliation: University of Texas “What A&M offers is an excellent accounting program that is undervalued by the rest of the world. As a tax accounting professor, I’d like to help bring us to the forefront. A&M is really going places, and so is this program.” When Connie Weaver researched as a tax consultant for Ernst & Young, her job was to answer the questions clients posed. Those questions led to her own examination of business practices, and today the accounting professor gauges how tax legislation really affects corporate behavior. From dissertation work examining the impact of the taxable deduction of goodwill in mergers and acquisitions to her recent work on stock options and financial accounting, Weaver monitors company structure and develops new measures to help assess governance habits. Diving into earnings management with Mays co-author Mary Lea McAnally, the new Mays addition measures how business managers tinker with income to affect the stock price around stock option grants, exercises and holdings. Weaver was a Deloitte & Touche Centennial Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas and recipient of the Master in Professional Accounting Council’s 2006 Outstanding Accounting Faculty Award for outstanding teaching in accounting. She is a member of The Journal of the American Taxation Association editorial board and has been an invited presenter at 40 major conferences and accounting workshops across the nation and in Canada. Weaver has more than a dozen papers published or in progress in well-known tax and accounting journals.