Past Seminars

Spring 2009

Date & Time Speaker Paper Title
1/9/09  Dr. Jeffrey Moriarty
Bowling Green University
How Much Compensation Can CEOs Permissibly Accept?
2/13/09 Dr. Jim Staihar
University of Chicago Law School
A Restorative Signaling Theory of Punitive Desert
2/27/09 Dr. Carolyn B. Levine
Carnegie Mellon University
Critical Accounting Policy Disclosures
3/06/09 Dr. Susan Kulp
George Washington University
Testing Business Strategy with Nonfinancial Performance Measures
3/13/09 Dr. Chris Armstrong
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Are There Incentives to Inflate Earnings around Initial Public Offerings?
3/27/09 Dr. Heifeng You
University of California at Berkeley
What's in a Nickel? Information Flow and Rounding in Analyst Forecasts
4/10/09 Dr. Vicki Tang
Georgetown University
Proprietary Costs & Privately Held Firms' Financing Choice between Public Offerings and Private Placements
4/17/09 Dr. Fabrizio Ferri
Harvard Business School
Say on Pay Vote and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the UK

Fall 2008

Date & Time Speaker Paper Title
9/19/08 Dr. Donal Byard
Baruch/SEC
The Information Content of Earnings Announcement Voluntary Disclosures: A Price and Trading Volume Analysis
10/3/08 Dr. Susan Krische
University of Illinois/SEC
Analysts' Expectations of Mispricing: The Joint Effects of Accounting Disclosure and Investor Base
10/17/08 Dr. Peter Wysocki
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Pairs Trading and Accounting Information
11/3/08 Dr. Yun Zhang
Duke University
On the Use of Loose Monitoring and Lavish Pay in Agency
11/4/08 Dr. Daniel Bens
Eller College of Management, Univ. of Arizona
Discretionary Disclosure in Financial Reporting: An Examination Comparing Internal Firm Data to Externally Reported Segment Data
12/5/08 Dr. Mikhail Pevzner
George Mason University
Accounting Conservatism in Fraud Firms: An Empirical Investigation

2007-04

Spring 2007 Seminars
Date Speaker Paper Title
1/22/07 Dr. Shijun Cheng
University of Michigan
"Board, Compensation Committee, and CEO Compensation"
Fall 2006 Seminars
Date Speaker Paper Title
12/18/06 Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Gordon
Rutgers University
"Disclosure Credibility and Market Reaction to Restatements"
10/27/06 Dr. Qi Chen
Duke University
"On the Relation Between Conservatism in Accounting Standards and Incentives for Earnings Management"
10/13/06 Dr. Rebecca Hann
U of Southern California
"Fair-Value Pension Accounting"
Spring 2006 Seminars
Date Speaker Paper Title
2/14/06 Professor Anil Arya
Ohio State University
"Interacting Supply Chain Distortions: The Pricing of Internal Transfers and External Procurement"
3/3/06 Professor Sri Sridharan
Northwestern University
"Effects of Non-contractibility of Performance Standards"
5/5/06 Dr. Paul Zarowin
New York University
"Capitalization vs. Expensing of R&D Earnings Management"
Fall 2005 Seminars
Date Speaker Paper Title
12/2/05 Dr. Karim Jamal
University of Alberta
"Quality and Co-ordination Standards and Certification: Accounting and Auditing in the Context of the Larger Economy"
10/28/05 Dr. William R. Baber
George Washington University
"Strong Boards, Management Entrenchment, and Accounting Reinstatement"
10/21/05 Dr. Daniel Beneish
Indiana University
"Earnings Manipulation and Firm Performance"
Spring 2005 Seminars
Date Speaker Paper Title
4/22/05 Dr. Robert Bushman
U of North Carolina
"Capital Allocation and Timely Accounting Recognition of Economic Losses: International Evidence"
4/1/05 Professor Mark Penno
University of Iowa
"The Assignment of Decision Rights in Formal Information Systems"
3/11/05 Professor Keith Jones
George Mason University
"Improving Fraud Risk Assessments through Analytical Procedures"
02/11/05 Professor Ira Weiss Columbia University "The Effect of Reporting Frequency on the Timeliness of Earnings: The Cases of Voluntary and Mandatory Interim Reports"
Fall 2004 Seminars
Date Speaker Paper Title
12/07/04 Nerissa Brown
Ph.D. Candidate
"Herd Behavior in the Voluntary Disclosure of Capital Expenditure Forecasts"
12/03/04 Myojung Cho
Ph.D. Candidate
"Measuring the Magnitude of Price Response to Earnings Information: Beyond ERC and R5"
11/05/04 Professor Stephen A. Zeff
Rice University
"The Evolution of the IASC into the IASB, and the Challenges It Faces"
10/29/04 Professor S. P. Kothari
MIT Sloan School of Management
"Investment Banking and Analyst Objectivity: Evidence from Analysts Affiliated with M&A Advisors"
10/15/04 Professor Zoe-Vonna Palmrose, University of Southern California Abstract Practice Problems and Research Issues with Non-Auditor Services and Their Effect on Auditor Independence