Matthew Cedergren joined the Accounting faculty at the Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business in Fall 2020, after five years on the faculty at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. At the Leavey School, Matt teaches ACTG 11 (Introduction to Financial Accounting) and ACTG 132 (Advanced Financial Accounting).
Matt's research interests include management forecasting and disclosure, capital markets and initial public offerings, insider trading and securities litigation, and the information content of accounting measures. Matt's research has appeared in scholarly journals such as the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, and the Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance. His published works have investigated the relationship between insider trading and class action litigation outcomes, how the experience of litigation influences a firm's disclosure policies, the impact of SEC quiet period regulations on IPO after-market trading, the information content of debt valuation adjustments, patterns in the distribution of gross margins, the impact of media attention on earnings management, and other topics.
In joining Santa Clara University, Matt is returning to the Silicon Valley area after a decade in New York and Philadelphia: Prior to his academic career, Matt worked for six years in the Assurance practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in San Jose, where his responsibilities included financial statement audits and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, focusing primarily on semiconductor firms as his client base. During this time, Matt got the opportunity to work with many outstanding Santa Clara University alumni among his colleagues and clients. Matt's time at PwC San Jose overlapped with the wave of employee stock option backdating scandals that swept across many high-tech firms, and he worked on several notable backdating investigations, including those of Marvell Technology Group, Trident Microsystems, and Mercury Interactive.
Matt obtained his B.B.A. and M.Acc. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his Ph.D. from New York University. Matt is originally from Madison, Wisconsin, and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in California. He lives in Santa Clara with his wife (Joli) and a mischievous cat. In his free time, Matt enjoys reading, exercising, and spending time with family.