Department of Accounting

The accounting department is committed to quality in educational programming, research pursuits and community service.

Education is a vital objective of the department. We deliver quality accounting education through a coordinated program of faculty advising and staff counseling. Internships are used as an additional vehicle to prepare students for the professional expectations of the workplace.

The department provides advanced study and synergistic programs through its graduate offerings, including the Master of Science in Accounting, joint Master of Science in Accounting/Master of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration accounting specialization. We ensure that graduates demonstrate proficiency in contemporary management skills such as information technology, communication techniques and teamwork. The program promotes a perspective of the global economy and cultural diversification necessary for the knowledge worker of the 21st century.

Commitment to research is an integral component of the department. We feature an academically respected and professionally qualified faculty who actively produce and support basic and applied research. Faculty research and teaching expectations emphasize individual strengths, interests and career development through a coordinated program of peer review, support and counsel. Our faculty pursue external service activities that enhance departmental visibility, reputation and presence at the local, national and international levels. We are dedicated to service to the students, college and university that enhances the university's urban mission.

Past Conferences Heading link

10th UIC Accounting Research Conference, September 8-9, 2023 

  • Nerissa Brown, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Do Local Country Reporting Requirements Affect Parent Company Geographic Disclosures?”
  • Shane Heitzman, University of Southern California, “Lender of Last Resort? Funding Needs and Tax Savings”
  • Michal Matejka, Arizona State University, “Relative Performance Evaluation and Long-Term Incentives”
  • Dawn Matsumoto, University of Washington, “Do Investor Preferences Affect Analyst Research? Evidence From Chinese Dual-Listed Shares”
  • Nemit Shroff, MIT, “Does U.S. Immigration Policy Facilitate Financial Misconduct?”
  • Irene Zhong, University of Illinois Chicago, “Under the ‘Spotlight’: Media Attention and Greenwashing”

9th UIC Accounting Research Conference, September 9-10, 2022 

  • Ana Albuquerque, Boston University,  “Are ISS Recommendations Informative? Evidence From Assessments of Compensation Practices”
  • Jason Chen, University of Illinois Chicago, “The Compounding of Accounting Estimates and Auditors Risk Premiums: Evidence From Unexplained Audit Fees”
  • Lakshmanan Shivakumar, London Business School, “Are CEOs Rewarded for Luck? Evidence From Corporate Tax Windfalls”
  • Bridget Stomberg, Indiana University, “How Tax Authorities’ Interest in Information Outside of Tax Returns Affects Corporate Communication: Insights From Tax Executives”
  • Clare Wang, University of Colorado, “The Irrelevance of ESG Disclosure to Retail Investors: Evidence From Robinhood”
  • Charles Wasley, University of Rochester, “Fifty+ Years of Empirical Capital Markets Research in Accounting in “N” Pictures”

8th UIC Accounting Research Conference, September 10, 2021

  • Eddie Riedl, Boston University, “Changes in Risk Factor Disclosures and the Variance Risk Premium”
  • Gary Chen, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Income Taxes and Managerial Incentives: Evidence From hedge Funds”
  • Jayanthi Sunder, University of Arizona, “Insider Trading Restrictions and Informed Trading in Peer Stocks”
  • Scott Dyreng, Duke University, “Tax Deficits and the Income Shifting of U.S. Multinationals”
  • Brian Bushee, “University of Pennsylvania, “Co-Opetition and the Firm’s Information Environment”

The 2020 conference was canceled due to Covid-19.

7th UIC Accounting Research Conference, September 6-7, 2019

  • Yonca Ertimur, University of Colorado, “Tainted Executives as Outside Directors”
  • Thomas Hemmer, Rice University, “Aggregation and Convexity in the Provision of Dynamic Incentives”
  • Regina Wittenberg-Moerman, University of Southern California, “Lifting the Banking Veil: Credit Standards’ Harmonization Through Lending Transparency”
  • Steven Savoy, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Expected Economic Growth and Investment in Corporate Tax Planning”
  • Cristi Gleason, University of Iowa, “The Measurement of Quarterly Earnings: Integral Versus Discrete Method”
  • Shane Dikolli, University of Virginia-Darden, “CFO Co-Option and CEO Compensation”

6th UIC Accounting Research Conference, September 7-8, 2018

  • Jennifer Blouin, University of Pennsylvania, “Does Tax Planning Affect Organizational Complexity: Evidence From Check-the-Box.”
  • Karen Sedatole, Emory University, “The Folly of Forecasting: The Effects of a Disaggregated Demand Forecasting System on Forecast Error, Forecast Positive Bias, Inventory Levels.”
  • Vivek Raval, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Implied Volatility Comovement and Insider Information Content”
  • Beverly Walther, Northwestern University, “Do Brokerage Houses Exchange Stock Tips for Political Favors?”
  • DJ Nanda, University of Miami, “The Relative Salience of Accounting Information in the Governance of Family Firms”
  • Katherine Schipper, Duke University, “The Last Chance to Improve Financial Reporting Reliability: Evidence from Recorded and Waived Audit Adjustments”

5th UIC Accounting Research Conference, September 8-9, 2017

  • Maureen McNichols, Stanford University, “Increased Information Content of Earnings Announcements in the 21st Century: An Empirical Investigation”
  • Andrew Leone, University of Miami, “When Does the SEC Exercise Enforcement Leniency?”
  • Ellen Engel, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Money for Nothing? Using Expectations of Loss Persistence to Examine CEO Cash Compensation in Loss-Making Firms”
  • Paul Hribar, University of Iowa, “Implied Confidence in Management Range Forecasts”
  • Edward Maydew, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, “U.S. Firms on Foreign (Tax) Holidays”
  • Mohan Venkatachalam, Duke University, “The Changing Landscape of Accrual Accounting: Implications for Operating Cash Flow Predictability”

4th UIC Accounting Research Conference, September 9-10, 2016

  • Shiva Rajgopal, Columbia University, “Corporate Culture: Evidence From the Field”
  • Mary Brooke Billings, New York University, “Do Managers Respond to Litigation With Silence?”
  • Michael Minnis, University of Chicago, “Commercial Lending Concentration and Bank Expertise: Evidence From Borrower Financial Statements”
  • Alex Nekrasov, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Opportunity Knocks but Once: Delayed Disclosure of Financial Items in Earnings Announcements and Analyst and Investor Neglect of Earnings News”
  • Sugata Roychowdhury, Boston College, “Clarity Begins at Home: Internal Information Asymmetry and External Communication Quality”
  • Sarah McVay, University of Washington, “Aggregate R&D Expenditures and Firm-Level Profitability of R&D”
  • Bjorn Jorgensen, London School of Economics and Political Science, “Market-Wide Effects of Off-Balance Sheet Disclosures: Evidence From the Oil and Gas Industry”

3rd UIC Accounting Research Conference, September 11-12, 2015

  • Anne Beatty, Ohio State University, “Does Loan Loss Provision Timeliness Affect the Accuracy, Informativeness, and Predictability of Analyst Provision Forecasts?”
  • Pervin Shroff, University of Minnesota, “Active CDS Trading and Managers’ Voluntary Disclosure”
  • Karthik Ramanna, Harvard University, “Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy”
  • Melissa Martin, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Executive Compensation: A Firm Life Cycle Analysis”
  • Peter Easton, University of Notre Dame, “A New Approach to Empirical Analysis of the Relation Between Change in Value and Earnings”
  • Maria Ogneva, University of Southern California, “Predicting Restatements in Macroeconomic Indicators Using Accounting Information”
  • Thomas Omer, University of Nebraska, “The Effects of Regulatory Scrutiny on Tax Avoidance: An Examination of SEC Comment Letters”

2nd UIC Accounting Research Conference, October 3-4, 2014

  • Theodore Sougiannis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Do Analysts Understand the Economic and Reporting Complexities of Derivatives?”
  • Feng Li, University of Michigan, “Estimating the Amount of Estimation in Accruals”
  • Laura Wellman, University of Illinois at Chicago, “From K Street to Wall Street: Politically Connected Analysts and Stock Recommendations”
  • Elizabeth Blankespoor, Stanford University, “CEO Visibility: Are Media Stars Born or Made?”
  • Douglas Skinner, University of Chicago, “The Evolution of Audit Market Structure and the Emergence of the Big 4: Evidence From Australia”
  • Partha Mohanram, University of Toronto, “Fundamental Analysis: A Comparison of Financial Statement Analysis Driven and Intrinsic Value Driven Approaches”
  • Richard Mergenthaler, University of Iowa, “Principles-Based Standards and Earnings Attributes”

1st UIC Accounting Research Conference, October 18-19, 2013

  • Stephen Penman, Columbia University, “Book Rate of Return, Risk, and the Information Conveyed by Conservative Accounting”
  • Shail Pandit, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Do Compustat Financial Statement Data Articulate?”
  • Daniel Collins, University of Iowa, “Financial Statement Comparability and the Efficiency of Acquisition Decisions”
  • Lian Fen Lee, Boston College, “The Role of Social Media in the Capital Market Consequences of Consumer Product Recalls”
  • Jacob Thomas, Yale University, “Revisiting the Anomalous Distributions of EPS Forecast Errors”
  • Alastair Lawrence, UC Berkeley, “SEC Comment Letters and Insider Sales”
  • Philip Berger, University of Chicago, “The Rational Modeling Hypothesis to Explain Analyst Underreaction to Earnings News”

Weekly Research Workshops Heading link

Each week, accounting faculty from across the nation bring their latest research to faculty, staff and students. These workshops are held on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons in University Hall.

  • February 17, 2021: Nayana Reiter, University of Toronto, “The Effects of Enhanced Disclosure Requirements on Management Guidance Quality”
  • January 13, 2021: Ben Lourie, UC Irvine, “The Gender Position Gap and Firm Performance”
  • September 30, 2020: Frank Murphy, University of Connecticut, “Nonrecurring Tax Disclosure: What can a retroactive tax law change tell us about compliance and disclosure practices?”
  • September 23, 2020: Wei Zhu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Measuring the information content of disclosures: The role of return noise”
  • February 26, 2020: Chan Li, University of Pittsburgh, “Do school ties between audit partners and clients impact audit outcomes? Evidence from the United States”
  • February 19, 2020: Alex Nekrasov, UIC, “Employee Turnover and Firm Performance: Large-Sample Archival Evidence”
  • January 31, 2020: Rustam Zufarov, Rice University, “Revealed Proprietary Information Disclosure”
  • January 29, 2020: Nargess Golshan, University of Missouri, “Credit Availability and Voluntary Disclosures: Evidence from Interstate Bank Branching Deregulation”
  • January 22, 2020: Jasmine Wang, University of Georgia, “How Does the Legal Environment Shape Qualitative Disclosure? Evidence from a Landmark Court Ruling”
  • January 20, 2020: Jalal Sani, Penn State University, “Information Environment, the Organization of Firms, and Investment Decisions”
  • January 15, 2020: Enrique Gomez, University of Georgia, “The Effect of Mandatory Disclosure Dissemination on Information Asymmetry: Evidence from the Implementation of the EDGAR System”
  • January 13, 2020: Ruyun (Ivy) Feng, University of Maryland, “Analysts Unchained – Expanded Information Capacity and Effort Transfer under Technology Adoption”
  • November 18, 2019: Will Coconte, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Profit persistence in the U.S. audit market”
  • November 6, 2019: Sid Balachandran, UIC, “How Does Increased R&D Affect Management’s Guidance of Earnings and Sales”
  • October 30, 2019: Vishal Baloria, Boston College, “Media exposure and corporate labor investment decisions”
  • October 21, 2019: Pingyang Gao, University of Chicago, “Accounting Information, Renegotiation, and Debt Contracts”
  • October 11, 2019: Matthew Cedergren, University of Pennsylvania, “Sifting through earnings per share distortion”
  • October 2, 2019: Roman Chychyla, Univ of Miami, “Strategic Choice of Presentation Format: The Case of ETR Reconciliations”
  • September 27, 2019: April Klein, New York University, “Corporate Tax Planning and Political Costs: Peer Effects of Foreign Institutional Ownership”
  • September 18, 2019: Judson Caskey, UCLA, “Investor agreement – Implications for the pricing of idiosyncratic risk”
  • August 21, 2019: Alex King, St. Xavier, “Earnings Announcement Timing and Intra-Industry Information Transfers”
  • June 5, 2019: Jason Chen, UIC, “Disclosure Prominence and the Quality of Non-GAAP Earnings”
  • May 15, 2021: Abbi Needles, UIC, “Does the Availability of Proxy Access Increase Shareholder Power?”
  • May 8, 2019: Anna Costello, University of Michigan, “Machine + Man: A Randomized Field Experiment on the Role of Private Information in Lending Markets”
  • May 1, 2019: Nan Li, University of Toronto-Rotman, “Initial Coin Offerings, Blockchain Technology, and White Paper Disclosures”
  • April 17, 2019: Richard Frankel, Washington University in St. Louis, “Law and Lemons”
  • April 3, 2019: Vernon Richardson, University of Arkansas, “Bulls and Bears: Disagreement and Trading Volume around News Announcements”
  • March 20, 2019: Teri Lombardi Yohn, Northwestern University, “Optimized Fundamental Portfolios”
  • March 13, 2019: David Koo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Public Peer Firm Information in Mergers and Acquisitions of Privately Held Targets”
  • February 18, 2019: Hayoung Yoon, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “The Macroeconomic Effects of Managerial Risk-Taking Incentives”
  • February 13, 2019: Tony Ding, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Understanding Heterogeneous Board Busyness: Determinants and Implications”
  • February 11, 2019: Raphael Duguay, University of Chicago, “The Economic Consequences of Financial Audit Regulation in the Charitable Sector”
  • February 8, 2019: Amoray Riggs-Cragun, Rice University, “Toward an Accounting-Centric Principal-Agent Framework:Theory and Some Applications”
  • February 6, 2019: Jenna D’Adduzio, University of Georgia, “The Determinants and Consequences of Immaterial Disclosure in Annual Reports”
  • February 4, 2019: Tara Vakil, Texas A&M University, “Can disaggregation in the financial statements enhance the credibility andinformativeness of non-GAAP disclosures?”
  • January 28, 2019: Min Park, Ohio State University, “Do Analyst/Investor Days Preempt or Complement Upcoming Earnings Announcements?”
  • January 25, 2019: Brent Schmidt, Ohio State University, “Consequences of Bank Stress Test Disclosures”
  • January 23, 2019: Svenja Dube, New York University, “R&D Investments and Forward-Looking Disclosures”
  • January 18, 2019: Hailey Ballew, Ohio State University, “Accounting Quality Benefits of Regulatory Spillover: Evidence from the Banking Industry”
  • January 16, 2019: Kristen Valentine, University of Texas at Austin, “Can DisclosureRegulation Impede Innovation?”
  • September 12, 2018: Nir Yehuda, University of Texas at Dallas, “Labor Unemployment Risk and Debt-Contract Design”
  • September 28, 2018: Michael Jung, New York University, “How Transparent are Firms about their Corporate Venture Capital Investments?”
  • October 3, 2018: Suning Zhang, Iowa State University, “ETFs and Information Transfer Across Firms”
  • October 10, 2018: Jaewoo Kim, University of Rochester, “Why is Stock Market Volatility High on Days without Macroeconomic News Releases? The Role of Aggregate Earnings News”
  • October 22, 2018: Patrick Vorst, Maastrich University, “Intra-Life Cycle Information Transfers”
  • October 24, 2018: Ewa Sletten, Boston Columbia University, “Does Litigation Encourage or Deter Reak Earnings Management?”
  • November 7, 2018: Jake Thornock, Brigham Young University, “The Long Arm of the U.S. Tax Law: Participation Rates and Costs related to FATCA”
  • November 9, 2018: Peter Demerjian, University of Washington, ”Inside Debt and Agency Conflicts: Evidence from the Financial Crisis”
  • November 14, 2018: Paige Patrick, University of Washington, “Investor-Driven Governance Standards and Firm Value”
  • November 30, 2018: Alon Kalay, Columbia University
  • December 5, 2018: Khrystyna Bochkay, Miami Business School, “Looking Under the Hood: Quantitative vs. Qualitative Inputs to Analysts’ Forecasts of Fundamental Risk”
  • April 25, 2018: Lynn Li, Boston University, “The Disclosure of Good verses Bad News:Evidence from the Biotech Industry”
  • April 18, 2018: Luzi Hail, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, “Do Risk Disclosures Matter When It Counts? Evidence from the Swiss Franc Shock”
  • April 11, 2018: Zhejia Ling, Iowa State Univarsity, “Management Forecasting Behaviour of Newly Public Firms”
  • April  6, 2018: Biqin Xie, Pennsylvania State University, “Offsetable Derivative Exposures and Financial Stability”
  • March 21, 2018: Michal Matejka, Arizona State University, “Relative Target Setting and Cooperation”
  • February 28, 2018: Asad Kausar, Nanyang Technological University, “The Usefulness of Negative Aggregate Earnings Changes in Predicting Future Gross Domestic Product Growth”
  • February 9, 2018: Daphne Hart, London School of Economics and Political Science, “Voluntary Employment Disclosures and Real Earnings Management”
  • February 5, 2018: Diana Choi, The Ohio State University, “The Effect of Bank Audit Committee Financial Experts on Loan Loss Provision Timeliness”
  • February 2, 2018: Travis Dyer, University of North Carolina, “Does Public Information Acquisition Level the Playing Field or Widen the Gap? An Analysis of Local and Non-Local Investors”
  • January 29, 2018: Oleg Kiriukhin, University of Chicago, Booth School, “Accruals Quality and Firm Value”
  • January 24, 2018: Yi Cao, University of Maryland, “Matchmaking or Information Leakage? Disclosure Benefits and Constraints of Corporate Job Advertisement Specificity”
  • January 22, 2018: Nan Li,Columbia University, “Do Greater Share holder Voting Rights Reduce Expropriation? Evidence from Related Party Transactions”
  • January 19, 2018: Charles McClure, Stanford University, “Determinants of Tax Avoidance”
  • January 17, 2018: Abigail Needles, Texas A&M University, “Evidence on Boutique Institutional Investors’ Governance Role and Investment Strategy Performance”
  • January 15, 2018: Jee Eun Shin, Harvard University, “Relational Disruptions as a Control Mechanism”
  • January 12, 2018: John Heater, Yale University, “Intended Benefits and Unintended Consequences of  Improved Performance Disclosure”
  • January 11, 2018: Heidi Packard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), “Are long-term earnings targets forecasts?”
  • January 10, 2018: Stephen Glaeser, University of Pennsylvania, the Wharton School, “The Effects of Proprietary Information on Corporate Disclosure and Transparency: Evidence from Trade Secrets”
  • January 9, 2018: Jessica Watkins, Indiana University, “The Timeliness and Detail Tradeoff in the Mandatory  Disclosure of Material Events”
  • January 8, 2018: Kurt Gee, Stanford University, “Readability, Profitability and Discretionary MD&A Text”
  • December 6, 2017: Isabel Wang, Michigan State University, “Swimming with the Sharks: Entrepreneurial Investing Decisions and First Impression”
  • November 17, 2017: Atif Ellahie, University of Utah, “Do Managerial Expectations of Volatility Have Information Content?”
  • November 8, 2017: Andrew Imdieke, Notre Dame University, “Effectiveness and Consequences of PCAOB Disciplinary Actions: An Analysis of the Resulting Auditor/Client Dynamic and Audit Quality”
  • October 27, 2017: Elio Alfonso, Florida International University, “Analysts’ stock ownership and stock recommendations”
  • October 18, 2017: Siew Hong Teoh, University of California, Irvine, “Using Google Searches of Firm Products to Detect Revenue Management and Predict Firm Performance”
  • October 13, 2017: Stephanie Sikes, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton, “Capital Gains Lock-in and Share Repurchases”
  • October 4, 2017: Clive Lennox, University of Southern California, “Lawsuit Outcomes and the Deep Pockets of Big Four audit firms*”
  • September 27, 2017: Russell Lundholm, University of British Columbia, “Do Excessively Volatile Forecasts Harm Investors?”
  • April 28, 2017: Dan Lynch, University of Wisconsin, “The Determinants of Segment-level Tax Expense Disclosure”
  • April 12, 2017: Ole-Kristian Hope, University of Toronto, “Do Politically Connected Directors Affect Accounting Quality? Evidence from China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign (Rule 18)”
  • March 29, 2017: Stan Markov, Southern Methodist University, “Does Crowdsourced Research Discipline Sell-Side Analysts?”
  • March 1, 2017: Mengyao Cheng, Boston College, “Government Structure and Legislative Uncertainty: Evidence from Stock Market Reactions to Roll-Call Votes on Congressional Bills”
  • February 15, 2017: Ryan McDonough, University of Michigan, “Corporate Communication and Shareholder Base Stability: Evidence from Corporate Spin-offs”
  • February 13, 2017: Rachel Thompson, University of Minnesota, “Revisions versus Restatements: Managerial Discretion in Materiality Assessments”
  • February 10, 2017: Seung (Peter) Oh, University of Southern California, “The Effect of Managerial Retention Incentives on theRelationship between Financing Constraints and Voluntary Disclosure”
  • February 8, 2017: Steven Savoy, University of Iowa, “Discretion in Accounting for Tax Reserves: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions”
  • February 6, 2017: Ethan Rouen, Columbia University, “Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and its Relation to Firm Performance”
  • February 3, 2017: Rafael Rogo, University of British Columbia, “The Foreign Investor Bias and its Linguistic Origins”
  • February 1, 2017: Lyungmae Choi, Arizona State University, “Do Proprietary Costs Deter Insider Trading?”
  • January 30, 2017: Andy Stephan, Northwestern University, “The Effect of Algorithmic Trading on Voluntary Disclosure”
  • January 25, 2017: Jenelle Conaway, Boston University, “Has Global Financial Reporting Comparability Improved?”
  • January 23, 2017: Sarah Toynbee, University of Washington, “Implications of disclosing order backlog”
  • January 20, 2017: Will Demere, Michigan State University, “Institutional Ownership and Long-Term Investments across the Corporate Life Cycle “
  • January 18, 2017: Amy Genson Sheneman, Indiana University, “The Effect of Operating Control Failures on the Cost of Capital: Evidence from Data Breaches”
  • January 16, 2017: Eric Holzman, Indiana University, “Living in the Moment: Short-Term Investors and the Informativeness of Prices for Future Fundamentals”
  • January 13, 2017: Robert Davidson, University of Texas at Austin, “Executive Equity Compensation and Financial Statement Fraud”
  • January 11, 2017: Jonathan Bonham, Rice University, “What you measure is what you get:Moral hazard and the effect of measurement on real activity”
  • November 30, 2016: Mark Bradshaw, Boston College, “Soft Information in the Financial Press and Analysts’ Recommendation Revisions”
  • November 18, 2016: Raluca Chiorean, Lehigh University, “Earnings Management Through OCI Components”
  • November 16, 2016: Siyi Li, University of Illinois Chicago, “Measuring Reporting Quality: Recognition versus Disclosure”
  • November 9, 2016: Andy Call, Arizona State University, “Examining Changes in Analysts’ Stock Recommendations Following Regulatory Action Against Their Brokerage “
  • November 2, 2016: Aiyesha Dey, University of Minnesota, “Assessing the Relation between Taxes and Stock Returns: The Critical Role of Choosing the Tax Variable”
  • October 26, 2016: Darren Roulstone, Ohio State University, “Tone Emphasis”
  • October 21, 2016: Rick Laux, Pennsylvania State University, “Assessing the Relation Between Taxes and Stock Returns: The Critical Role of Choosing the Tax Variable”
  • October 12, 2016: Frank Zhang, Yale University, “Does Financial Reporting Above or Below the Operating Income Matter to Firms and Investors? The Case of Investment Income”
  • October 5, 2016: Jeff Chen, University of Colorado, “The Association between SFAS No. 157 Fair Value Conditional Accounting Conservatism”
  • September 21, 2016: Jim Cannon, Iowa State University, “The Impact of International Takeover Laws on Corporate Resource Adjustments: Evidence from the Asymmetric Behavior of Selling, General, and Administrative Costs”
  • April 19, 2016: Carlo D’Agusto, Georgia State University, “Tone Conservation”
  • April 12, 2016: Melvin Lamboy-Ruiz, Iowa State University, “The Impact of Regulatory Scrutiny on the Accrual-based and Real Earnings Management in Nonprofit and For-Profit U.S. Hospitals”
  • April 05, 2016: Paul Ma, University of Minnesota, “Forecasts of Earnings Announcements Dates: Evidence from a Mandatory Regime”
  • March 17, 2016: Xiaochuan (Kelly) Huang, Florida International University, “Internal Information Quality & Firm Innovation”
  • March 15, 2016: Michael Ettredge, University of Kansas, “Metro Audit Market Competition, Audit Fees and Audit Quality”
  • March 1, 2016: Clare Wang, Northwestern University, “Private Litigation Costs and Voluntary Disclosure: Evidence from the Morrison Ruling”
  • February 18, 2016: Christopher Small, University of Iowa, “The Effect of Analysts on the Market Response to Earnings Announcements”
  • February 16, 2016: Amanda Beck, University of Alabama, “Opportunistic Finanacial Reporting and Credit Market Participation in Municipalities”
  • February 16, 2016: Hojun Seo, Washington University, “Peer Effects in Corporate Disclosure Decision”
  • February 9, 2016: Anywhere (Siko) Sikochi, Penn State, “Corporate Families and Agency Costs of Debt”
  • February 4, 2016: Sa-Pyung (Sean) Shin, Harvard University, “Takeover Defenses in the Era of Shareholder Activism”
  • February 2, 2016: Joseph Weber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Direct Evidence on the Information Properties of Earnings in Loan Contracts”
  • January 28, 2016: Leila Peyravan, University of Toronto, “Financial Reporting Quality and Dual-Holding of Dept and Equity”
  • January 26, 2016: Allison Nicoletti, Ohio State University, “The Effectsof Auditors and Regulators on Bank Financial Reporting: Evidence from Loan loss Provisions”
  • January 19, 2016: Nathan Goldman, University of Arizona, “The Effect of Tax Aggressiveness on Investment Efficiency”
  • January 14, 2016: Vivek Raval, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Organizational Capital and the Effects of Technology Shocks on Earnings”
  • January 12, 2016: Jenny Zha, University of California, Berkeley, “Voluntary Disclosure of Strategic Alternatives: A Cost-Benefit Analysis”
  • January 8, 2016: Thaddeur Neururer, Boston University, “The Effect of Voluntary Disclosure on Uncertainty Around Earnings Announcement”
  • December 10, 2015: Raluca Chiorean, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Real and Accounting effects of Mandatory Derivatives Disclosures”
  • December 8, 2015: Erik Beardsley, Texas A&M University, “Interim Tax Reporting Accuracy”
  • November 24, 2015: Herita Akamah, University of Oklahoma, “Strategic Non-Disclosure of Major Customer Identity”
  • November 19, 2015: Lakshmana Moorthy, Rutgers University, “Regulation, Auditor Litigation and Settlements”
  • November 17, 2015: Nick Hallman, University of Missouri, “Archival Evidence on Bias in Auditors Assessment of Client Risk and the Consequence of Audit Fees and Audit Changes”
  • November 10, 2015: Erin Henry, University of Tennessee, “Corporate Tax Avoidance: Data Truncation Bias and Loss Firms”
  • November 3, 2015: Jeremiah Green, Pennsylvania State University, “Hedge Fund Voluntary Disclosure”
  • October 20, 2015: Salman Arif, Indiana University, Bloomington, “Starving for Information: Does Reporting Frequency Affect How Earnings News Travels Around the World”
  • October 15, 2015: Alexander Nekrasov, University of California at Irvine, “Headline Salience and Over-and Underreactions to Earnings”
  • October 8, 2015: Eric Weisbrod, University of Miami, “Stockholders’ Reference-Dependent Preferences and the Market Reaction to Financial Disclosure”
  • September 17, 2015: Thomas Bourveau, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, “The Transmission of Corporate Culture: Evidence from Bank Acquisitions”
  • March 19, 2015: Adam Borderman, University of Colorado, “The Effect of Discretion in Accounting Standards on Financial Reporting Comparability”
  • March 17, 2015: Jason Chen, University of Michigan, “Geographic Dispersion of Investors and Price Discovery Around Earnings Announcements”
  • March 5, 2015: Koren Jo, University of Texas at Dallas, “Aggregate Earnings: Time-Deries Properties and Forecasting Models”
  • February 26, 2015: Rong Zhong, University of Missouri, Columbia, “Firm Transparency and Innovation: International Evidence”
  • February 19, 2015: Karen Ton, University of Southern California, “Do Shared Auditors Improve Audit? Evidence from Banking Relationships”
  • February 13, 2015: Joe Pacelli, Cornell University, “Security Code Violations, Analysts Forecasts Quality, and Corporate Culture”
  • February 12, 2015: Melissa Martin, Arizona State University, Rice, “Executive  Compensation: A Firm Life Cycle Analysis”
  • February 10, 2015: Paul Wong, Texas A&M University, “The Influence of Institutional Investors on Analyst Earning Forecast Boldness and Accuracy”
  • February 3, 2015: Ciao-Wei Chen, University of Iowa, “The Disciple Role of Financial Statements: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions of Privately Held Targets”
  • January 29, 2015: Scott Judd, Arizona State University, “Auditor Industry Specialization and Revenue Manipulation”
  • January 27, 2015: Jane Barton, Indiana University, Bloomington, “How Does the Presence of an Audit Affect the Credibility of Highly Uncertain Estimates?”
  • January 20, 2015: Sarah Shaikh, Arizona State University, “Managerial Career Concerns and Earnings Forecasts”
  • November 25, 2014: Dennis Caplan, SUNY Albany, “Student Overconfidence at Grade Forecasts: Is it Real or is it Bravado?”
  • November 18, 2014: Mathew Lyle, Northwestern University, “Accounting Data Market Values and the Cross Section of Expected Returns Around the World”
  • November 13, 2014: Andrew Schmidt, North Carolina State University, “Analysts and Taxes”
  • November 11, 2014: Richard Willis, Vanderbilt University, “Political Uncertainty and Corporate Tax Avoidance; Evidence from National Elections Around the World”
  • November 4, 2014: Andrew Bauer, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Tax Avoidance at public Corporations Driven by Shareholder Demand: Evidence from Changes in Shareholder Dividend Tax Policy”
  • October 28, 2014: Stephannie Larocque, University of Notre Dame, “Forecasting Tax Expense; New Direct Evidence from Analyst”
  • October 14, 2014: Vishal Baloria, Boston College, “The Market for Political Favours; Evidence from Analyst”
  • September 23, 2014: Mary Billings, New York University, “On Guidance and Volatility”
  • May 8, 2014: Brandis Phillips, Michigan State University, “On Search Cost and the Long Tail: The Moderating Role of Search Cost”
  • April 22, 2014: Gary Chen, University of Illinois Chicago, “Corporate Social Responsibility and the Informativeness of Stock Prices”
  • April 3, 2014: Laura Wellman, Arizona State University, “The Benefits of a Relational Approach to Corporate Political Activity: Evidence from Political Contributions to Tax Policymakers”
  • March 11, 2014: Hyung Li Oh, Columbia University, “A New Accounting Approach to Evaluate M&A Prices and Goodwill Allocations”
  • March 6, 2014: Laura Wellman, Arizona State University, “From K Street to Wall Street: Politically Connected Analysis and Stock Recommendations”
  • February 27, 2014: Spencer Pierce, Northwestern University, “Does the accounting for Derivatives affect Risk and Value?”
  • February 20, 2014: Rick Johnston, Rice University, “Crowdsourcing Forecasts: Competition for Sell-Side Analysts?”
  • February 18, 2014: Na Li, University of Toronto, “Impact of Mandatory changes in Convertible Debt Accounting: Evidence from APB 14-1″
  • February 13, 2014: Michael Iselin, Ohio State University, “Estimating the Potential Impact of Requiring a Stand-Alone Board-Level Risk Committee”
  • February 6, 2014: Joshua Gunn, University of Missouri, Columbia, “City-Location and Sell-Side Analyst Research”