Accounting research seminars
Our research seminars are normally held on Mondays 11.30am-1.00pm. If you would like to present a paper, be on our seminar mailing list, or get more information about our seminars email accounting.bus@uts.edu.au
Spring semester seminars 2011
25 Jul 2011
10.30am-1pm
Honours Proposals.
8 Aug 2011
11.30am-1pm
Philip Sinnadurai (Macquarie University) presents The effect of ownership structure on the relation between stock ratings and earnings quality of Malaysian companies (pdf, 416k, 40 pages).
15 Aug 2011
11.30am-1pm
Camille Schmidt (University of Technology, Sydney) presents Portfolio quality and mutual fund performance (pdf, 316k, 46 pages).
22 Aug 2011
11.30am-1pm
David Bond (University of Technology, Sydney) presents “Large class teaching: How to get bang for your buck”.
29 Aug 2011
11.30am-1pm
Adrian Raftery (University of Technology, Sydney) presents “Technical update on accounting & auditing standards, tax and superannuation”.
5 Sep 2011
11.30am-1pm
Matthew Peters (University of Technology, Sydney) presents Competitively advantageous management control for hypercompetitive conditions - a dynamic capabilities perspective (pdf, 396k, 40 pages).
7 Sep 2011
Wednesday
12pm-1.30pm
Marlene Plumlee (University of Utah) presents The relative accuracy of analysts' disaggregated forecasts: identifying the source of analysts' superiority (pdf, 1,114k, 39 pages).
12 Sep 2011
11.30am-1pm
Gavin Cassar (University of Pennsylvania) presents Alternative information sources and information asymmetry reduction: evidence from small business debt (pdf, 434k, 55 pages).
19 Sep 2011
11:30am-1pm
Mandy Cheng (University of New South Wales) presents Do informal controls encourage or reduce escalation of commitment? The effect of self-certification on capital investment decisions (pdf, 178k, 34 pages).
21 Sep 2011
Wednesday
2pm-3pm
Tom Scott (University of Technology, Sydney) PhD Assessment "Can firms buy attention? Evidence from open briefings".
3pm-4pm
Gabriel Pundrich (University of Technology, Sydney) PhD Assessment "Market reactions to resource disclosures by development stage mining companies".
22 Sep 2011
Thursday
9.30am-12.30pm
Hugh Willmott (Cardiff University, UK) together with John Mingers (University of Kent, UK) presents "Taylorising business school scholarship: the performance effects of journal ranking lists".
26 Sep 2011
11.30am-1pm
Cynthia Cai (University of Melbourne) presents Accounting disclosure quality, cost of capital and interrelated firm effect (pdf, 575k, 50 pages).
10 Oct 2011
11:30am-1pm
Vassili Joannides (Queensland University of Technology) presents Rhetoric and the fate of budgeting (pdf, 196k, 38 pages).
17 Oct 2011
11:30am-1pm
Gerhard Speckbacher (Vienna University of Economics and Business) presents The control of creative work: How the perceived importance of intrinsic employee motivation and task programmability shape managers' choice of control packages (pdf, 152k, 45 pages).
24 Oct 2011
11:30am-1pm
Peter Easton (University of Notre Dame) presents Matching market prices, analysts' earnings and target price forecasts, and estimating the implied expected rate of return on equity capital (pdf, 426k, 63 pages).
31 Oct 2011
11:30am-1pm
Jodie Nelson (Queensland University of Technology) presents Managers' capital investment decisions: influences and consequences - some evidence from Australia (pdf, 461k, 42 pages).
14 Nov 2011
11.30am-1pm
Honours Assessments.
16 Nov 2011
Wednesday
11.30am-1pm
Tim Hasso (Bond University) presents Family ownership and discretionary accruals quality (pdf, 245k, 29 pages).
29 Nov 2011
Tuesday
2pm-3pm
Paul Thambar (University of Technology, Sydney) PhD Proposal "Enabling emergent strategy with a management control systems package".
