Accounting

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…

Lynn Hannan's paper "Mutual Monitoring and Team Member Communication in Team," co-authored with Markus Arnold and Ivo Tafkov, has been accepted for publication in The Accounting Review.

Serena Loftus' paper “Multi-Method Evidence on Investors' Reactions to Managers' Self-Inclusive Language,” co-authored with Zhenhua Chen of the University of San Diego, has been accepted for publication in Accounting, Organizations and…

Gans Narayanamoorthy and Shuoyuan He's paper per “Earnings Acceleration and Stock Returns”  has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Accounting and Economics.

As college graduates prepare to enter an increasingly automated workplace, one of their greatest fears is job security. In a talk at the Freeman School, the head of the nation’s second-largest professional services firm told…

Anthony Salazer (BSM/MACCT '18) has been named a 2018 recipient of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Elijah Watt Sells Award, which recognizes the year's top performers on the Uniform CPA Examination.

Gans Narayanamoorthy's paper “A Hidden Risk of Auditor Industry Specialization: Evidence from the Financial Crisis,”  co-authored with Stephen Rowe, Cory Cassell and Emily Hunt, has been accepted for publication in Review of…

Christine Smith, professor of practice in accounting and assistant director of the joint BSM/Master of Accounting program, contributed an article to Accounting Today about things students can do to help make their first internship a…

Anu Varadharajan, lecturer in accounting at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, was interviewed by WVUE-TV's Fox 8 News for a story about the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

Gus De Franco's paper “Riding the Blockchain Mania: Public Firms’ Speculative 8-K Disclosures,”  co-authored with Stephanie Cheng, Haibo Jiang and Pengkai Lin, has been accepted for publication in Management Science.

Barrett Wheeler's paper “Loan Loss Accounting and Procyclical Bank Lending: The Role of Direct Regulatory Actions” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Accounting and Economics.

Assistant Professor of Accounting Serena Loftus discussed the framework she and colleague Jasmijn Bol developed to help companies deal with personnel management issues in a special talk hosted by the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship…

Jasmijn Bol, PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Accounting, was interviewed by Fast Company for a story on job skills that can help guests successfully navigate the fraught environment of family holiday gatherings.

Robert Hansen's paper “Investment bank monitoring and bonding of security analysts’ research,” co-authored with Oya Altınkılıç of the University of Maryland and Vadim Balashov of Rutgers University, has been accepted for publication in…

Tim West's paper “A Comprehensive Analysis of Findings from Single Audits: The Implications of Auditee Type and Auditor Expertise,” co-authored with Tammy Waymire and Zach Webb, has been accepted for publication in The Journal of…

A. B. Freeman School of Business alumna Alexis S. Gandal (BSM/MACCT ’17) has been named a 2017 recipient of the American Institute of CPAs’ Elijah Watt Sells Award.

In a new study, Professor of Accounting Jasmijn Bol finds that firms increasingly value tacit knowledge -- the term scholars use for hard-to-teach skills like communication, self-management and the ability to prioritize tasks -- in…

Jasmijn Bol's paper “The Role of Tactic Knowledge in Auditor Expertise and Human Capital Development” has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Accounting Research.

Adrienna Huffman’s paper “Asset Use and the Relevance of Fair Value Measurement: Evidence from IAS 41," has been accepted for publication in the Review of Accounting Studies. Huffman is an assistant professor of accounting.

Lynn Hannan's paper “The Effect of Environmental Risk on the Efficiency of Negotiated Transfer Prices” has been accepted for publication in Contemporary Accounting Research.

On Jan. 29, the Freeman community came together to recognize Gus De Franco’s investiture as KPMG Professor of Business with a ceremony in the Marshall Family Commons of the new Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex.

Deen Kemsley, Paddy Sivadasan and Venkat Subramaniam’s paper “The Composite Dividend Tax Rate” has been accepted for publication in Accounting and Business Research.

Paddy Sivadasan and Xuhui "Nick" Pan are the 2017 recipients of the Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award, the Freeman School's highest honor for classroom teaching.

Lynn Hannan's paper “Team Member Subjective Communication in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Teams,” co-authored with Markus Arnold of the University of Bern and Ivo Tafkov of Georgia State University, has been accepted for publication…

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.