Past workshops

Inaugural Workshop: May 8

Speaker: Jeremy Bentley (UMass Amherst)

Paper: Measure Management and the Masses: How Acceptability of Operating and Reporting Distortion Varies with Deservingness, Demography, and Damage (coauthored with M. J. Bloomfield, R. J. Bloomfield, and T. A. Lambert)

Link: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2823705

Date: May 15

Speaker: Kathryn Holmstrom (PhD student, Georgia Tech)

Paper: The Effect of Opaque Data Analytics and Auditor Involvement on Reliance on Independent Expectations

Link: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3596478

Date: May 22

Speaker: Tim Bauer (University of Waterloo)

Paper: Workplace aggression initiated by clients against accounting professionals (coauthored with S. Hillison, and A. Mokhtar)

Link: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3594949

Date: May 29

Speaker: Kerri-Ann Sanderson (Bentley University)

Paper: An Exploratory Analysis of Auditors’ Perceptions of the Firms’ Tone at the Top (coauthored with V. Brown, and C. Earley)

Link: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3608450

Date: June 5

Speaker: Shannon Garavaglia (Pittsburgh University)

Paper: Constructive Obligations and Past Practice (coauthored with C. Mongold, and B. White)

Link: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3613216

Date: June 12

Speaker: Derek Barr-Pulliam (University of Louisville)

Paper: The Auditor-Valuation Specialist Coopetitive Alliance in the Fair Value Audit of Complex Financial Instruments (coauthored with J. Joe, S. Mason, and K. Sanderson)

Link: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3620440

Date: June 19

Speaker: Adam Vitalis (University of Waterloo)

Paper: Your Emissions or Mine? Examining How Emissions Management Strategies, CSR Performance, and Targets Attract Equity Capital (coauthored with J. Johnson, J. Theis, and D. Young)

Link: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3562196

Date: June 26

Speaker: Brian Fitzgerald (Northeastern University)

Paper: When Does Developing an Independent Estimate Reduce the Biasing Influence of Management Preferences? (coauthored with C. Wolfe, K. Smith, and B. Garza)

Link: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3363224