College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Professor of Accountancy and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Faculty Fellow

Ph.D., Accounting, Cornell University, 2012
M.S., Management, Cornell University, 2011
Masters, Business Administration, University of Iowa, 2006
Bachelors, Business Administration, University of Iowa, 2002

Assistant Professor of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011 to present
Instructor, S. C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, 2008
Head Teaching Assistant, S. C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, 2008
Financial Analyst, United States Department of the Interior, 2002-2004

Bloomfield, R., Hodge, F., Hopkins, P., Rennekamp, K. Forthcoming. Does Coordinated Presentation Help Credit Analysts Identify Firm Characteristics? Contemporary Accounting Research SSRN Abstract

Libby, R., Rennekamp, K. 2012. Self-Serving Attribution Bias, Overconfidence, and the Issuance of Voluntary Disclosures. Journal of Accounting Research, 50: 197-231

Rennekamp, K. 2012. Processing Fluency and Investors' Reactions to Disclosure Readability. Journal of Accounting Research, 50: 1319-1354

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012-2015
2012 Best Dissertation Award, AAA - Financial Accounting and Reporting Section FARS, 2013
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011
Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, Cornell University, 2009-2011
Johnson School "4.5 Club" Recognition for Excellence in Teaching, Cornell University, 2008-2010
AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Cornell University, 2009

Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis

Judgment and decision-making; Managers' financial reporting decisions; Analysts' and investors' reactions to financial disclosures