Billy joined the faculty at Boston College in 1990.  He received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Accountancy summa cum laude from the University of the Philippines and has a Masters of Science and Ph.D. in Accounting and Information Systems from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.  Before his studies at Northwestern, Billy worked for the accounting firm SGV & Co., now a member practice of Ernst & Young Global, and earned his CPA in the Philippines.

Billy's research interests include audit markets and tenure, disclosure incentives, and financial regulations and the stock market's and managers' responses to their imposition.  He has published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory.

Billy teaches all levels of financial accounting and financial statement analysis to undergraduates, graduates and executives.  He received the Carroll School of Management Honors Program Outstanding Teacher Award in 2008 and was the inaugural recipient of the Carroll School of Management Undergraduate Distinguished Teacher award in 2010.  He was recognized as an Honorary member of the Boston Security Analysts Society in 2008 for his service to the society.

Carroll School of Management
Fulton 542
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
billy.soo@bc.edu
617-552-3963
Web site: http://www2.bc.edu/~soob