"Regular faculty research seminars, an active PhD program, and outreach activities to practitioners and regulators stimulate our inquiry into the absorbing questions of accounting."
Jonathan Glover
James L. Dohr Professor of Accounting and Chair, Accounting Division
Congratulations to Professor Matthias Breuer for winning the Best Paper Award at the American Accounting Association's 2019 Financial Reporting and Accounting Section Midyear Meeting for his study titled, "How Does Financial-Reporting Regulation Affect Market-Wide Resource Allocation?" The award recognizes a paper presented at the midyear meeting that is judged to best reflect the tradition of academic scholarship and is of relevance to problems facing the accounting profession and standard-setters.
The professors were honored for their study, “Do the FASB’s Standards Add Shareholder Value?”
Congratulations, Thomas Bourveau!
The timing of loan loss provisions was an influencing factor in the housing crisis.
In many firms, there is an apparent disconnect between informal values and norms and formal practices and policies, says the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing.
When India mandated that firms spend at least 2 percent of income on corporate social responsibility initiatives, there was an odd result: many firms reduced CSR spending.
