Zhanel DeVides, Ph.D.

Zhanel’s research investigates the role accounting information and stakeholders’ preferences play in effective capital allocation, with focus on channels of information transfer between organizations and capital providers. Her research expertise spans both for-profit and not-for-profit accounting, and covers topics of earnings properties, voluntary disclosure, financial analysts, and social responsibility. Zhanel has published in high-quality accounting and finance journals such as the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Financial Review, Journal of Financial Research, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Review of Accounting and Finance, and Advances in Quantitative Analysis in Finance and Accounting.  

Zhanel has extensive teaching experience both in the U.S. and internationally in her native country of Kazakhstan. She is a recipient of several professional honors and grants, including Fulbright Foundation – University of Vaasa Scholar award, and Open Society Institute Global Track Faculty Development Grant. Her paper on market reaction to earnings patterns has received Eastern Finance Association Outstanding Paper Award. Zhanel actively serves the accounting academic community and Penn State Abington campus.