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James Joseph Karan joined the Daniels School of Business at Purdue University as a Lecturer in Accounting in 2024. Prior to this position, he held a tenured faculty role at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. With a decade of experience in higher education, he has taught a wide variety of accounting and business topics, including managerial accounting, financial accounting, taxation, and various business economics subjects. Karan's research has notably explored the interplay between stock price changes of firearm manufacturers and mass shootings in the United States, published in the Journal of Accounting and Finance. His dissertation focused on accounting ethics, specifically investigating the ethical attitudes of accounting faculty across the nation. At Purdue, he concentrates mainly on courses related to tax and managerial accounting.
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