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Accountancy & Taxation

Accountancy & Taxation Workshops

Speakers Series for Fall 2012

Date	Speaker’s Name & Organization	Workshop Paper Title
9/07/2012	Xiumin Martin, Washington University	The Effect of Sharing a Common Auditor with Customers on Accounting Misstatements by Supplier Firms
9/21/2012	Jayaraman Vijayakumar, Virginia Commonwealth University
9/28/2012	Amy Sun, Pennsylvania State University	Economic Consequences of Voluntary Disclosure Before Seasoned Equity Offerings: The Impact of the 2005 Securities Offering Reform
10/05/2012	Ganapathi Narayanamoorthy, University of Illinois	Did the SEC Impact Banks’ Loan Loss Reserve Policies and their Informativeness?
10/09/2012	George Drymiotes, University of Cyprus	Biasing Performance Evaluation for Incentive and Screening Purposes
10/19/2012	Jeremy Bertomeu, Baruch College	Mandatory Disclosure and the Asymmetry in Financial Reporting
10/26/2012	Chad Larson, Washington University
11/09/2012	Vivian Fang, Carlson School of Management
11/30/2012	Xiaojing Meng, New York University
12/07/2012	Albert Tsang, City University Hong Kong

Speakers Series for Spring 2012

Date	Speaker’s Name & Organization	Workshop Paper Title
1/13/2012	Ningzhong Li, London Business school
1/27/2012	7th Annual Lone Star Accounting Research Conference
	Thomas Hemmer, Rice University	Optimal Pay-Performance-Sensitivity in the Presence of Exogenous Risk
	Yuping Zhao, University of Houston	Individual Auditor Experience and Audit Quality
	Rick Cazier, Texas Christian University	Executive Labor Markets, TARP’s Pay Restrictions, and Top Management Turnover
	Hyungshin Park, Southern Methodist University	Are Stock Price Reactions around Bright Line Earnings Surprises Really Asymmetric?”
	Nate Sharp, Texas A & M University	Who’s Heard on the Street? Determinants and Consequences of Financial Analyst Coverage in the Business Press
	Todd Kravet, University of Texas at Dallas	The Effect of SFAS 141 and 142 on the Market for Corporate Control
	John McInnis, University of Texas at Austin	Predicting credit losses: loan fair values vs. historical costs
2/03/2012	Jeffrey Paterson, Florida State University	Unmuddying the Waters: Using Actuarial Services to Examine the Association between Non-audit Services and Audit Quality
2/17/2012	Jennifer Brown, Arizona State University	Network ties among low-tax firms
2/21/2012	Yuan Xie, Fordham University	Pending Approval Patents, Proprietary Information and Bank Loan Spread
2/24/2012	Brian Akins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Financial Reporting Quality and Uncertainty about Credit Risk among the Ratings Agencies
3/02/2012	Volkan Muslu, University of Texas at Dallas	Sell-side Analyst Research and Stock Comovement
3/09/2012	Sam Bosnall, Pennsylvania State University	The Informational Effects of Firm-Funded Certification: Evidence from the Bond Rating Agencies
4/27/2012	Anil Arya, Ohio State University	Input Markets and the Strategic Organization of the Firm

Speakers Series for Fall 2011

Date	Speaker’s Name & Organization	Workshop Paper Title
10/07/2011	Naomi Soderstrom, University of Colorado at Boulder	Financial Analysis Used in Clean Development Mechanisms: Fact or Fiction?
10/14/2011	Anwer Ahmed, Texas A&M University	Managerial overconfidence and accounting conservatism
11/11/2011	Stephen Huddart, Pennsylvania State University	The Efficiency of Stock-Based Incentives: Experimental evidence
11/18/2012	Qintao Fan, University of California at Berkeley	Earnings Management and Pay-Performance Sensitivity in a Multiperiod Agency Setting
12/02/2011	Jayaraman Vijayakumar, Virginia Commonwealth University	Earnings Loss Announcements, Differential Volume and Price Reactions, and Information Content

Speakers Series for Spring 2011

Date	Speaker's Name & Organization	Workshop Paper Title	Time & Place
1/21/2011	Philip Shane, University of Colorado-Boulder	Earnings Persistence and Mispricing Implications of Abnormal Changes in Cash
2/28/2011	David Huelsback, USC	Accounting–based Indicators of Financial Constraint and Firms’ Propensity to Accept Contractual Risk
2/01/2011	Yun Fan, University of Oklahoma	Cross–Sectional Determinants of the Impact of Management Cash Flow Forecasts
2/08/2011	Brian Burnett, Colorado	Market Implications of Voluntary Accounting Disclosures in the Absence of a Mandatory Disclosure Requirement: Evidence from the OTCBB
2/11/2011	Michael Neel, Texas A&M University	The Impact of Mandatory IFRS Adoption on Accounting Comparability and Information Quality
2/22/2011	Yunyan Zhang, Ohio State University	Firms’ Disclosure Policies and Capital Investment Constraints around Reg FD	Schedule
2/25/2011	Robert (Bob) Yetman, University of California-Davis	How Does the Incentive Effect of the Charitable Deduction Vary Across Charities?
3/04/2011	Michelle (Chelle) Yetman, University of California-Davis	Are Donors Misled by Inflated Program Ratios?
3/11/2011	Cristi Gleason, University of Iowa	LIFO Liquidations: Earnings Management, Disclosure Channel, and Price Discovery
3/25/2011	Leslie Hodder, Indiana University	Cancelled
4/8- 9/2011	6th Annual Bauer Accounting Research Conference
4/22/2011	Mort Pincus, University of California-Irvine	Pricing of Book-Tax Differences: Evidence from Short Arbitrage

2010 - 2009 Accountancy & Taxation Workshops

Fall 2010

Date	Speaker's Name & Organization	Workshop Paper Title
8/19/2010	Sudhakar Balachandran, Columbia University	Using residual income to refine the relationship between earnings, growth and stock returns
10/04/2010	Prem Jain, Georgetown University	It’s Showtime: Do Managers Manipulate Stock Prices before Annual Shareholder Meetings?
10/15/2010	Shyam Sunder, Yale University	Research on Accounting Policy
11/12/2010	Sanjay Gupta, Michigan State University	Tax Cushion Earnings Management: Pre and Post-FIN 48
11/19/2010	Rabih Zeidan, Texas A & M University- Corpus Christi	Opportunistic Pricing and Incentives in Nonprofit Hospitals

Spring 2010

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Workshop Paper Title	Time & Place
03/12/2010	Hagit Levy	Columbia University	Accounts Receivable Financing and Information Asymmetry
03/10/2010	Michael Crawley	U-T at Austin	Macroeconomic Consequences of Accounting: The Effect of Accounting Conservatism on Macroeconomic Indicators and the Money Supply
03/5/2010	Yinghua Li	Purdue University	Hedge Fund Intervention and Accounting Conservatism
02/19/2010	Weiming Zhang	U-T at Dallas	CEO Tenure and Earnings Quality
02/17/2010	James Chayz	University of Arizona	Personally Tax Aggressive Managers and Firm Level Tax Avoidance
02/12/2010	Mihir Mehta	MIT	Financial Reporting Quality and the Quiet Life
02/10/2010	Yuping Zhao	GWU	The Audit Pricing Implications of Differential Reliability Of Accurals and Cash Flows
Fall 2009
Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Workshop Paper Title	Time & Place
11/13/2009	Gopal Krishnan,	Lehigh University	An Analysis Of Auditor Responses To Potentially Misleading Disclosures By managers: The Case Of Pro-Forma Earnings
11/06/2009	Andy Van Buskirk,	University of Chicago	Human Capital Risk and Initial CEO Compensation Contracts
10/22/2009	Steve Hillegeist,	INSEAD	Implied Volatility Skew and Firm-Level Tail Risk
10/09/2009	Jayanthi Sunder	Northwestern U.	SFAS 123 ® and Stock Option Vesting Terms
09/25/2009	Shyam Sunder	Northwestern U.	The Role of Managerial Overconfidence in the Design of Debt Covenants
09/18/2009	Aiyesha Dey	University of Chicago	Disproportional Control And Insider Entrenchment: Evidence From Capital Structure Choices And Institutional Investment

Previous Accountancy & Taxation Workshops

Date	Speaker's Name & Organization	Workshop Paper Title
02/20/2009	Stephanie Rasmussen, Texas A&M University	Sell-in Versus Sell-through Revenue Recognition: An Examination of Firm Characteristics an Financial Information Quality
02/17/2009	Kirk Marcus, Emory University	The Effect of Investor Relations on Income Objectives and Meeting Expectations
02/13/2009	Urooj Khan, University of Washington, Seattle	Does Fair Value Accounting Contribute to Systemic Risk in the Banking Industry?
02/10/2009	Brian Bratten, UT Austin	Analysts' Use of Earnings Components in Predicting Future Earnings
02/05/2009	Serena Wu, University of British Columbia	Private Information in Executive Compensation: The Information role vs. the Monitoring Role of the Board
02/03/2009	Reining Chen, Ohio State University	Regulation Fair Disclosure and Capital Structure
01/30/2009	Todd Kravet, University of Washington	Accounting Conservatism and Acquisition Decisions: Benefits and Costs
01/27/2009	Li Ninzhong, University of Chicago	Negotiated Measurement Rules in Debt Contracts
01/23/2009	Rebecca Files-Texas A&M University	Do More Transparent Corporate Actions Following a Restatement Influence the SEC's Decision to Issue an Enforcement an Enforcement Action?
12/11/2008	Qiang Cheng, University of Wisconsin-Madison	The Consequence of Aggressive Financial Reporting: The Case of External Financing
11/20/2008	Yvonne Lu, University of Southern California	Earnings Management at the Segment Level
11/14/2008	Robert Magee, Northwestern University	Resonably Certain Estimates, Recognition,and Communication of Uncertainty
11/07/2008	Christo Karuna, University of California, Irvin	CEO Reputation and Internal Corporate Governance
11/05/2008	Bin Srinidhi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Does Gender Diversity in Board of Directors improve Information Flow? Evidence from Idiosyncratic Volatility
10/24/2008	Jinyoung Wynn, Louisiana Tech University	Managerial Opportunism, Legal Liability Rule and Audit
09/24/2008	Eva Labro, London School of Economics	Heuristics for Evaluating and Refining Product Costing Systems

2008 - 2007 Accountancy & Taxation Workshops

Date	Speaker's Name & Organization	Workshop Paper Title
03/13/2008	Ling Lei, George Mason University	“Auditor-provided Tax Services and 'Last-chance' Earnings Management: The Importance of Audit Committees”
02/28/2008	Linda Krull, University of Oregon	“Bringing it home: A study of the incentives surrounding the repatriation of foreign earnings under the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004”
02/24/2008	Chareles Shi, Univ. of California-Irving	“Does Disclosure Regulation Work? Evidence from International IPO Markets”
02/21/2008	Wei-Yi Liao, Ohio State University	“Dedicated Investors and Debt Financing”
02/14/2008	Pingyang Gao, The University of Chicago	“Disclosure Quality, Cost of Capital, and Investors' Welfare”
02/07/2008	Jason Smith, University of Arizona	“The Auditor's Loss Function and Investors' Perceptions of Audit Effectiveness: Effects of Regulatory Change”
01/31/2008	David Erkens, Arizona State University	“The Influence of R&D Investments and Property Rights on Compensation Arrangements”
01/28/2008	Kirsten Cook, University of Arizona	“Managing Earnings by Manipulating Production: The Effects of Timing, Tax, Compensation, and Governance Considerations”
01/24/2008	Haijin Lin, University of Florida	“Assest Revaluation Regulations”
12/06/2007	Bin Ke, Penn State University	“Insider Trading and Corporate Governance”
11/30/2007	Sundaresh Ramnath, University of Miami	“Do Industry Level Analyses Improve Forecasts of Financial Performance?”
11/15/2007	Stephen Ryan, New York University	“Characteristics of Securitizations that Determine Issuers' Retention of the Risks of the Securitized Assets”
11/02/2007	Volker Laux, University of Texas-Austin	“Auditor Liability and Client Acceptance Decisions”
10/25/2007	Dechun Wang, Michigan State University	“Founding Family Ownership and Tax Reporting Aggressiveness”
10/18/2007	Jenny Tucker, University of Florida	“Why Do Firms Issue Disaggregated Earnings Guidance? The Archival Evidence”

2007 - 2006 Accountancy & Taxation Workshops

Date	Speaker's Name & Organization	Workshop Paper Title
03/30/2007	Somnath Das, University of Illinois	“Comprehensive Income, Future Earnings and Market Mispricing”
03/29/2007	Anne Beatty, The Ohio State University	“Do Internal Control Reforms Improve Earnings Quality?”
03/28/2007	Ramji Balakrishnan from University of Iowa	“Capacity Utilization and Unit Variable Cost: Evidence from California Hospitals”
03/28/2007	Ramji Balakrishnan from University of Iowa	“Capacity Utilization and Unit Variable Cost: Evidence from California Hospitals”
03/07/2007	Raghu Venugopalan, University of Minnesota	“Accounting Conservatism and the Efficiency of Debt Contracts”
02/23/2007	Mary Lea McAnally, Texas A&M University	“EXECUTIVE STOCK OPTIONS, MISSED EARNINGS TARGETS AND EARNINGS MANAGEMENT”
01/27/2007	Gilles Hillary, HKUST	“How Does Accounting Quality Improve Investment Efficiency? ”
01/19/2007	Christian Leuz, University of Chicago	“Cost of Capital Effects and Changes in Growth Expectations around U.S. Cross Listings.”
11/03/2006	Brian Bushee, University of Pennsylvania	“Investor Relations, Firm Visibility, and Investor Following”
10/20/2006	Adrian Sawyer, University of Canterbury	“Developing an International (World) Tax Organisation for Administering Binding Rulings and APAs – The Way Forward”
10/13/2006	Dan Givoly, Pennsylvania State University	“What do Analysts Really Predict? Inferences from Earnings Restatements and Managed Earnings”
10/06/2006	Pierre Liang, Carnegie Mellon University	“New Classical Measurement: A Choice-Theoretic Axiomatic Approach”