Archived 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".
15 Aug 2011
11.30am-1pm
Camille Schmidt (University of Technology, Sydney) presents "Portfolio quality and mutual fund performance".
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".
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".
12 Sep 2011
11.30am-1pm
Gavin Cassar (University of Pennsylvania) presents "Alternative information sources and information asymmetry reduction: evidence from small business debt".
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".
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".
10 Oct 2011
11:30am-1pm
Vassili Joannides (Queensland University of Technology) presents "Rhetoric and the fate of budgeting".
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".
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".
31 Oct 2011
11:30am-1pm
Jodie Nelson (Queensland University of Technology) presents "Managers' capital investment decisions: influences and consequences - some evidence from Australia".
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".
29 Nov 2011
Tuesday
2pm-3pm
Paul Thambar (University of Technology, Sydney) PhD Proposal "Enabling emergent strategy with a management control systems package".
Autumn semester seminars 2011
2 Mar 2011
12.30pm-2pm
Tom Scott (University of Technology, Sydney) PhD Proposal "Dissemination mechanisms: just talk?".
7 Mar 2011
11.30am-1pm
Matthew Peters (University of Technology, Sydney) presents "Hypercompetition and interactive use of profit planning systems: a dynamic capabilities perspective".
14 Mar 2011
11.30am-1pm
David Smith (Monash University) presents "Performance measurement, modes of evaluation and the development of a compromising account".
21 Mar 2011
11.30am-1pm
Paul Brown (University of Technology, Sydney) presents "The association between greenhouse gas management and operating performance: Australian evidence".
23 Mar 2011
2pm-3pm
Matt Grosse (University of Technology, Sydney) PhD Proposal “Market reactions to bank loan announcements by hard rock developmental stage mining companies”
3pm-4pm
Gabriel Pundrich (University of Technology, Sydney) PhD Proposal “Value of technical assurance in hard rock resource disclosure”
28 Mar 2011
11.30am-1pm
Ron Bird (University of Technology, Sydney) presents "Market uncertainty and sentiment, and the post-earnings announcement drift".
4 Apr 2011
11.30am-1pm
Baljit Sidhu (University of New South Wales) presents "Exchange sponsored analyst research".
11 Apr 2011
11:30am-1pm
Ronny Hofmann (Maastricht University) presents "The impact of banks' credit risk disclosures on bond returns".
18 Apr 2011
11:30am-1pm
Alexey Feigin (University of Technology, Sydney) presents "Daily and intraday market reactions to a star resource analyst's recommendations".
2 May 2011
11:30am-1pm
Naomi Soderstrom (University of Colorado) presents "Financial analysis used in clean development mechanism projects: fact or fiction".
9 May 2011
11:30am-1pm
Habib Mahama (Australian National University) presents "The effect of accounting control choices and practices in the emergence and enactment of supply alliances".
16 May 2011
11:30am-1pm
David Brown and Nicole Sutton (University of Technology, Sydney) present "It's not herding cats its feeding sick puppies: Management Control Systems in enabling performance of university research groups".
23 May 2011
11:30am-1pm
Neal Arthur (University of Sydney) presents "Bonus caps, corporate governance and pay-performance sensitivity".
30 May 2011
11:30am-1pm
Peter Carey (Monash University) presents "Measuring the benefit of a regulated mandatory quiet period in the new issues market".
31 May 2011
12:30pm-1:30pm
Bechar Hamdan and Khan Haider (University of Technology, Sydney) present "Global student challenge".
6 Jun 2011
11:30am-1pm
Willoe Freeman (University of Technology, Sydney) presents "Mortgage securitization and the relevance of fair value assets".
14 Jun 2011
11:30am-1pm
Vernon Richardson (University of Arkansas, USA) presents "The effect of enterprise systems implementations on the firm information environment".
20 Jun 2011
11:30am-1pm
Andrew Ferguson (University of Technology, Sydney) presents "Restoration and rehabilitation provisions in the Australian materials and energy sectors: estimation and valuation implications".
27 Jun 2011
11:30am-1pm
Naibuka Saune (University of Technology, Sydney) PhD Proposal "Benchmark beating and their implications for earnings management: role of context specific capital market incentives and analyst cash flow forecasts".
2pm-3:30pm
Dan Simunic (University of British Columbia, Canada) presents "The economics of setting auditing standards".
Spring semester seminars 2010
26 Jul 2010
Honours Proposals.
9 Aug 2010
11.30am-1pm
Oksana Kim (University of Melbourne) presents "The impact of cross-listing on the cost of equity capital: The case of American depository receipts (ADRs) and global depository receipts (GDRs)".
16 Aug 2010
11.30am-1pm
Jonathan Tyler (University of Technology, Sydney) presents "Using students' devices and a no-to-low cost online tool to support interactive experiential mlearning".
23 Aug 2010
11.30am-1pm
Aldonio Ferreira (Monash University) presents "Design and use of management control systems: Analysis of the interaction between design misfit and intensity of use".
30 Aug 2010
11.30am-1pm
Peter Vassallo (University of Melbourne) presents "Are capital expenditures, R&D, advertisements and acquisitions positive NPV?".
6 Sep 2010
11:30am-1pm
Ann Tarca (University of Western Australia) presents "Investigating managerial disclosure bias: Evidence from the IFRS adoption setting".
13 Sep 2010
11:30am-1pm
Tracy Wang (Australian National University) presents "Acquisitions in Chinese business groups: Expropriation vs propping".
20 Sep 2010
11:30am-1pm
Victoria Clout (University of Western Australia) presents "Auditor independence and corporate governance reforms for established and emerging firms".
27 Sep 2010
11:30am-1pm
Mark Russell (University of Technology, Sydney) presents "Continuous disclosure and price discovery".
11 Oct 2010
11:30am-1pm
David Bond (University of Technology, Sydney) presents "The impact of the Arthur Anderson and Ernst & Young merger on the Australian audit services market".
18 Oct 2010
11:30am-1pm
Prabhu Sivabalan (University of Technology, Sydney) presents "Creative attribution, creative cognition and management control systems".
25 Oct 2010
11:30am-1pm
Jacqueline Birt (Monash University) presents "The value relevance of segment data".
1 Nov 2010
11:30am-1pm
Renee Adams (University of Queensland) presents "Business connections to the Fed: The case of Federal Reserve Bank directorships".
8 Nov 2010
11:30am-1pm
Deryl Northcott (Auckland University of Technology) presents "Managing performance at the top: A balanced scorecard for boards of directors".
15 Nov 2010
Honours Assessments.
22 Nov 2010
11:30am-1pm
Francesco Giacobbe (University of Technology, Sydney) presents "Profiling small businesses in Australia".
Autumn semester seminars 2010
8 Mar 2010
11.30am-1pm
Professor Joe Weber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) presents "Evidence on the Determinants and Economic Consequences of Delegated Monitoring".
15 Mar 2010
11.30am-1pm
Professor Jere Francis (University of Missouri) presents "Big Four Audit Market Concentration and Client Earnings Quality Around the World".
22 Mar 2010
11.30am-1pm
Associate Professor Bruce Gurd (University of South Australia) presents "The Relative Impacts of Strategic and Traditional Management Accounting on Strategic Business Unit Effectiveness".
29 Mar 2010
11.30am-1pm
Dr Igor Goncharov (University of Amsterdam) presents "Does Reporting Timeliness Affect Book-Tax Differences?".
1 Apr 2010
Thursday
11.30am-1pm
Professor Paul Griffin (University of California) presents "Accounting Rules? Stock Buybacks and Stock Options: Additional Evidence".
12 Apr 2010
11:30am-1pm
Professor Raymond da Silva Rosa (University of Western Australia) presents "Good Timing? An Australian Examination of Stock Options Awards".
19 Apr 2010
11:30am-1pm
Professor Anne Wyatt (University of Queensland) presents "Analyst Following and Real Earnings Management".
27 Apr 2010
Tuesday
2.30pm-4pm
Dr Tami Dinh Thi (University of Augsburg) presents "Capitalizing Research and Development Expenditures - The Incremental Information Content of Accrual vs Cash Accounting for German Firms".
3 May 2010
11:30am-1pm
Professor Greg Clinch (University of Melbourne) presents "Intangible Assets, IFRS, and Analysts' Earnings Forecasts".
10 May 2010
11:30am-1pm
Professor Peter Clarkson (University of Queensland) presents "The Relevance Of Environmental Disclosures For Investors and Other Stakeholder Groups: Which Audience Are Firms Speaking To?".
31 May 2010
11:30am-1pm
Cameron Truong (Monash University) presents "Options trading volume and stock price response to earnings announcements".
7 Jun 2010
11:30am-1pm
Mark Russell (UTS) presents "Continuous Disclosure".
