Department of Accountancy & Taxation
Accountancy & Taxation Workshops
Speakers Series for Fall 2012
| Date | Speaker’s Name & Organization | Workshop Paper Title |
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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 |
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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 |
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11/09/2012 |
Vivian Fang, Carlson School of Management |
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11/30/2012 |
Xiaojing Meng, New York University |
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12/07/2012 |
Albert Tsang, City University Hong Kong |
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Speakers Series for Spring 2012
| Date | Speaker’s Name & Organization | Workshop Paper Title |
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1/13/2012 |
Ningzhong Li, London Business school |
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1/27/2012 |
7th Annual Lone Star Accounting Research Conference |
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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 |
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Rick Cazier, Texas Christian University |
Executive Labor Markets, TARP’s Pay Restrictions, and Top Management Turnover |
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Hyungshin Park, Southern Methodist University |
Are Stock Price Reactions around Bright Line Earnings Surprises Really Asymmetric?” |
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Nate Sharp, Texas A & M University |
Who’s Heard on the Street? Determinants and Consequences of Financial Analyst Coverage in the Business Press |
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Todd Kravet, University of Texas at Dallas |
The Effect of SFAS 141 and 142 on the Market for Corporate Control |
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John McInnis, University of Texas at Austin |
Predicting credit losses: loan fair values vs. historical costs |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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” |
