Accounting

For the third consecutive year, a graduate of Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business has been recognized with the prestigious Elijah Watt Sells Award.

Tim West, professor of practice in accounting, was featured in a Chronicle of Higher Education video showing university professors discussing the best advice they’ve received on how to navigate self-isolation and delivering…

Hila Fogel-Yaari and Gus De Franco's paper "MD&A Textural Similarity and Auditors,” co-authored with Heather Li of Bentley University, has been accepted for publication in Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory.

Jonathan Jona's paper “Underlying Risk Preferences and Analyst Risk-Taking Behavior,” co-authored with Sean Cleary of University of Melbourne, Gladys Lee of University of Melbourne and Joshua Shemesh of Monash University, has been…

Hila Fogel-Yaari's paper "MBE – Meeting/ Beating Expectations,” co-authored with Joshua Ronen, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy.

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…

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.