Accounting

The A. B. Freeman School of Business is pleased to announce the appointment of nine faculty members for the 2020-21 academic year. The appointments include seven tenure-track assistant professors, one professor of practice…

Gans Narayanamoorthy’s paper “Minimum tick size and analyst coverage: Evidence from the Tick Size Pilot Program” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.

Gans Narayanamoorthy’s paper “Analyst Underreaction and the Post-Forecast Revision Drift” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.

Gus DeFranco’s paper “The Effect of Auditor Litigation Risk on Client Access to Bank Debt: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Accounting & Economics.

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.

Deen Kemsley’s paper “The Comprehensive Tax Gain from Leverage” has been accepted for publication in European Accounting Review.

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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.