Accounting Workshops
Past Workshops
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Paper |
Location |
| 04/18/2008 | Marlene Plumlee | University of Utah | An Analysis of the Underlying Causes of Restatements | Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM |
| 04/11/08 | Thomas Hemmer | University of Houston | Stewardship and Value Relevance Implications of ACcrual Accounting Systems | Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM |
| 03/21/08 | Cathy Shakespeare | University of Michigan | The Limits of Empire: CEO Compensation and its Link to Acquisitions... and Diverstitures | Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM |
| 02/29/08 | Nahum Melumad | Columbia University | Operating Profit Variation Analysis: Implications for Future Earnings and Equity Values | Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM |
| 12/14/07 | Kevin Li, Kwang Lee, Seungmin Chee, Xue Shuang | Haas School of Business | "Expected Holding of Cash, Future Performance and Stock Returns," "Summary of Research in Progress," "Revisiting Negative Special Items," "Are Cash Flows Managed? Empirical Evidence from Quarterly Financial Statements of Listed Chinese Firms" | Cheit Hall, C320 02:00PM- 03:30PM |
| 12/07/07 | Richard Sloan | Barclay's Global Investors | Investor Recognition and Stock Returns | Cheit Hall, C320 01:00PM- 02:15PM |
| 11/30/07 | Michelle Hanlon | University of Michigan | The Effects of Managers on Corporate Tax Avoidance | Cheit Hall, C320 02:00PM- 03:30PM |
| 11/01/07 | Qintao Fan | Haas School of Business | Hurdle Rate and Return-Enhancing Effort | Cheit Hall, C330 01:00PM- 02:30PM |
| 11/02/07 | Guochang Zhang | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Relative Firm Profitability and Stop Price Sensitivity to Aggregate Information | Cheit Hall, C320 01:30PM- 03:00PM |
| 09/28/07 | Peter Demerjian | Goizueta Business School, Emory University | The Role of Debt Covenants in Limiting Operating Performance Risk: Evidence from Private Loan Agreements | Cheit Hall, C320 02:00- 03:30PM |
| 09/21/07 | Shai Levi | Haas School of Business | Conservatism in Analyst Forecast Revisions NOTE: This paper will not be distributed by email, but will be available at the seminar. |
Cheit Hall, C320 02:00- 03:30PM |
| 09/14/07 | Sandra Chamberlain | University of British Columbia | Variation in the Use of Debt Covenants in Public Debt Over Time: The Role of Borrower Reputation and Accounting Quality | Cheit Hall, C320 01:30 PM- 03:00PM |
| 05/04/07 | Haifeng You | Haas School of Business | A Study of Firms Surrounding the Threshold of Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Compliance | Cheit Hall, C335 02:30- 03:30PM |
| 04/19/07 | Nicole Johnson | Haas School of Business | Dual Transfer Prices with Unknown Costs and Market Demand | S518 03:00- 05:00PM |
| 03/16/07 | Pierre Liang | Carnegie-Mellon University | Optimal Team Size and Monitoring in Organizations | Cheit Hall, C325 01:00- 2:30PM |
| 03/09/07 | Rajiv Banker | Temple University | Strategic Position, Value Creation, and Performance Evaluation in Executive Compensation | Cheit Hall, C325 1:00PM- 2:30PM |
| 02/09/07 | Irem Tuna | The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Management Forecasts, Disclosure Quality, and Market Efficiency | Cheit Hall, C325 1:00- 2:30pm |
| 02/02/07 | Christo Karuna | University of California, Irvine | CEO Reputation and Corporate Governance | Cheit Hall, C325 01:00- 2:30 pm |
| 11/03/06 | Paul Newman | University of Texas, Austin | Delegation to Encourage Communication of Problems | Cheit Hall, C330 01:00- 2:30 pm |
| 10/20/06 | Stefan Reichelstein | Stanford University | Conservatism Growth and Return on Investment | Cheit Hall, C330 01:00- 2:30 pm |
| 10/13/06 | Haresh Sapra | University of Chicago | A Theory of Auditor Bias and Audit Quality | Cheit Hall, C330 01:00- 2:30 pm |
| 9/15/06 | Maria Nondorf | Haas School of Business | The SEC Comment Letter Process and its Effects on the Quality of Disclosure for IPO Firms | Cheit Hall, C330 12:00- 2:30 pm |
| 5/05/06 | Charles M. C. Lee | Global Head of Equity Research, Barclays Global Investors | Tunneling in China: The Surprisingly Pervasive Use of Corporate Loans to Extract Funds from Chinese Listed Companies | Cheit Hall, C330 1:00- 2:30 pm |
| 4/28/06 | James Ohslon | W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University | Dividend Policy Irrelevancy and the Construct of Earnings | Cheit Hall, C330 1:00- 2:30pm |
| 4/21/06 | Bill Rogerson | Northwestern University | Inter-Temporal Cost Allocation and Investment Decisions | Cheit Hall, C330 1:00- 2:30pm |
| 4/13/06 | Shivakumar Lakshmanan | University of Chicago | Earnings Quality at Initial Public Offerings: Managerial Opportunism, or Public-firm Conservatism? | Cheit Hall, C220 1:00- 2:30pm |
| 2/10/06 | Eli Amir | London Business School | The Effects of Disclosure, Medium, Timing, and Detail on Market Reactions to Earning Announcements | Cheit Hall, C330 12:30- 2:00pm |
| 2/2/06 | Carol Marquardt | New York University | SEC Scrutiny and the Evolution of Non-GAAP Reporting | Cheit Hall, F320 12:30- 2:00pm |
| 12/13/05 | Desmond Tang | Haas School of Business | Comparing the Quality of Accruals for Alternative Summary Performance Measures in the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Industry | Cheit Hall, C325 10:00- 11:30am |
| 12/9/05 | Zvi Singer | Haas School of Business | Discretionary Financial Reporting: Its Ability to Mislead Investors and Changes over Time in an IPO Setting | Cheit Hall, C250 10:00- 11:30am |
| 12/2/05 | Frank Gigler | University of Minnesota | On the Economic Value of Limiting Commitment in Agencies with Renegotiation | Cheit Hall, C110 1:00- 2:30pm |
| 11/18/05 | Tim Baldenius | Columbia University | Non-Financial Performance Measures as Coordination Devices | Cheit Hall, C110 1:00- 2:30pm |
| 10/19/05 | Madhav Rajan | Stanford University | Objective versus Subjective Performance | Cheit Hall, S518 1:00- 2:30pm |
| 10/14/05 | Richard Sloan | University of Michigan | Investor Recognition and Stock Returns | Cheit Hall, C110 1:00- 2:30pm |
| 10/7/05 | Chandra Kanodia | Cash Flow Hedges: Assessing the Information Content of Mark-to-Market and Historical Cost Accounting | Cheit Hall, C250 10:00- 11:30am |
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| 9/30/05 | Mohan Venkata chalam |
Duke University | Accelerated Vesting of Employee Stock Options in Anticipation of FAS 123-R | Cheit Hall, C110 1:00- 2:30pm |
| 5/6/05 | Steve Huddart | Pennsylvania State University | Jeopardy, Non-Public Information, and Insider Trading around SEC 10K and10Q Filings | Cheit Hall, C110 1:00- 2:30pm |
| 4/29/05 | Patty Dechow | University of Michigan | The Persistence of Earnings and Cash Flows and the Role of Special Items: Implications for the Accrual Anomaly | Cheit Hall, C325 12:30- 2:00pm |
| 4/8/05 | Sri Sridharan | Northwestern University | Determinants of Audit Failure | Cheit Hall, C110 12:00- 1:30pm |
| 4/1/05 | Siew Hong Teoh | Ohio State University | Accruals and NOA Anomalies: Risk or Mispricing | Cheit Hall, C110 1:00- 2:30pm |
| 12/03/04 | Zhaoyang Gu | Carnegie Mellon University | Measuring the Precision of Analysts' Private and Common Information: Generalization and an Application |
Cheit Hall, C110 12:30- 2:00pm |
| 11/19/04 | Teri Yohn | Georgetown University | Does Industry-level Analysis Improve Profitability Forecasts? | Cheit Hall, C110 12:30- 2:00pm |
| 11/17/04 | Shijun Cheng | University of Michigan | Accounting versus Stock Based Performance Incentives: An Agency Solution or an Agency Problem? |
F320 12:30- 2:00pm |
| 10/29/04 | Elizabeth Demers | University of Rochester | IPO Failure Prediction: Are There Differences in the "New Economy" | Cheit Hall, C110 12:30- 2:00pm |
