Accounting

Jose Cil (A&S ’91), CEO of Restaurant Brands International, parent company of Burger King, Popeyes and Tim Horton’s, discussed the company’s commitment to purpose before profits as luncheon keynote speaker at the 43rd annual Tulane…

Jasmijn Bol, Francis Martin Chair in Business and PwC Professor in Accounting, contributed the article “Are You Promotable?” to the July 2022 issue of Strategic Finance, the monthly magazine of the Institute of Management Accountants…

In a new paper, Assistant Professor of Accounting Lisa LaViers finds that the SEC’s decision to require firms to report their CEO pay ratios led to a proliferation of voluntary disclosures that went above and beyond the rule’s…

Gus De Franco and Vivi Zhu’s paper “Fixed Income Conference Calls,” co-authored with Da Xu (PhD ’22) and Thomas Shohfi from the SEC, has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Accounting & Economics.

Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business recognized more than 700 degree candidates at its spring 2022 undergraduate and graduate diploma ceremonies. The ceremonies took place on Friday, May 20, at Avron B. Fogelman Arena…

Gus De Franco and Stephanie Cheng’s paper “Marijuana Liberalization and Public Finance: A Capital Market Perspective on the Passage of Medical Use Laws,” co-authored with Pengkai Lin of Singapore Management…

Gans Narayanamoorthy’s paper “Are All Types of Real Transaction Management Equal in the Eyes of Bank Lenders?” has been conditionally accepted for publication in the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.

Lisa LaViers, Jason Sandvik and Da Xu’s paper “CEO Pay Ratio, Voluntary Disclosures and Stakeholder Reactions” has been accepted for publication in The Review of Accounting Studies (RAST).

Stephanie Cheng’s paper “Disclosure and Competition for Capital,” co-authored with Christine Cuny and Xue Hao, has been accepted for publication in Management Science.

The Tulane chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society recognizing academic excellence in the study of business, welcomed its newest members on Nov. 17, 2021.

Dean Paulo Goes, who became the 14th dean of Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business in August 2021, will deliver his first “State of the School” address on Nov. 12 as part of Wave ’21 – Homecoming, Reunion and Family…

Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business is pleased to announce the appointment of four faculty members for the 2021-22 academic year. The appointments, which were effective July 1, include three tenure-track assistant…

Paulo Goes, Dean and Halle Chair in Leadership at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management, has been named dean of Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business, effective Aug. 23, 2021.

Jasmijn Bol’s book Operational Risk Management: Organizational Controls and Incentive System Design was recently published by Business Expert Press.

Ira Solomon’s paper “Do Stronger Wise-Thinking Dispositions Enable Auditors to Evaluate Audit Evidence Objectively When Assessing and Addressing Fraud Risk?” has been accepted for publication in Contemporary Accounting Research…

Stephanie Cheng's paper “The Information Externality of Public Firms” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Accounting Research.

Serena Loftus' paper “Causal Language and Effective Performance Evaluations," co-authored with Lloyd Tanlu of Washington and Lee University, has been accepted for publication in Strategic Finance.

Amanda Heitz and Gans Narayanamoorthy's paper “Creditor Rights and Bank Loan Losses” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Gans Narayanmoorthy, associate professor of accounting, was interviewed for an article in Fortune about how companies are increasingly using non-GAAP accounting metrics to present a more favorable — and possibly misleading —…

Christine Smith, professor of practice in accounting and assistant director of the BSM/Master of Accounting program, contributed an article to Accounting Today about things students can do to make the most of their final college…

Comedy isn’t something people typically associate with accounting, but Tim West -- a graduate of the Second City, the famed improvisational theater in Chicago -- isn’t a typical accounting professor.

Jasmijn Bol's paper “Subjectivity in Professionals’ Incentive Systems: Differences between Promotion- and Performance-Based Assessments,” co-authored with Justin Leiby, has been accepted for publication in Contemporary Accounting…

Jasmijn Bol's paper “How control system design affects performance evaluation compression: The role of information accuracy and outcome transparency,” co-authored with Victor Maas of the University of Amsterdam and Stephan Kramer of…

Ira Solomon, dean and Debra and Rick Rees Professor of Business, recently co-authored an opinion piece for CFO.com criticizing the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) for misleading statements regarding the quality of…