
Research seminars
We have a range of speakers and research partners who regularly visit Deakin to share insights and encourage debate on topics of particular interest to the department’s students.
Upcoming seminars
2022
Date/time | Presenter | Topic |
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29 Jul 2022 | Associate Professor Sorabh Tomar Southern Methodist University (SMU)US | Greenhouse Gas Disclosure and Emissions Benchmarking |
19 Aug 2022 | Professor Michael Davern University of Melbourne | TBA |
26 Aug 2022 | Associate Professor Dennis Fehrenbacher St Gallen University, Switzerland | TBA |
Past seminars
Date | Presenter | Topic |
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22 Jul 2022 | Professor Ying Huang University of Texas, Dallas | Whistleblowing Threat and Corporate Disclosure |
15 Jul 2022 | Mr Xing Yang University of Melbourne | Can external auditors deter labor union misconduct? |
7 Jul 2022 | Dr Wei Shi Deakin University | Stay Distinct, Stay Silent - The Impact of Business Strategy on Disclosure Choice and Firm Value |
24 Jun 2022 | Associate Professor Sean Dennis University of Central Florida | "Alexa, Audit Loan Grades!": Does Humanising Artificial Intelligence Enhance Auditor Reliance? |
10 Jun 2022 | Associate Professor Yuyan Guan | The Impact of Credit Market Development on Auditor Choice: Evidence from Banking Deregulation |
3 Jun 2022 | Associate Professor Luke Watson Villanova University, Pennsylvania | Tax Policy through Executive Power and the Firm Value Effects of Treasury Regulations |
20 May | Associate Professor Andrew Jackson UNSW | The Disaggregation of Accounting Performance in Tests of Relative Performance Evaluation |
18 May 2022 | Dr Campbell Heggen & Dr Peter Ngigi Deakin University | Socioeconomic Disparity and Planned Saving Behaviour: The Role of Financial Anxiety, Self-Efficacy and Social Norms |
13 May 2022 | Associate Professor Ryan Guggenmos Cornell University | The Cognitive Cost of Misreporting |
4 March 2022 | Professor Charles Cho York University | Hijacking ‘Sustainability’ (Accounting): The Case of ‘ESG’ and the IFRS Foundation |
21 May 2021 | Dr Wei Shi Deakin University | Does Audit Committee Expertise Mitigate Securities Class Action Lawsuits? |
2 June 2021 | Professor Cline Lennox University of Southern California | 1) A review of China-related accounting research in the past 25 years 2) Auditor Inattentiveness to Firm Performance Subsequent to the Year End: Evidence from Going-Concern Opinions. |
14 July 2021 | Professor Laurence van Lent Frankfurt School of Finance and Management | Leveraging Text-based Methods for Empirical Accounting and Finance Research – Part 1 |
15 July 2021 | Professor Laurence van Lent Frankfurt School of Finance and Management | Leveraging Text-based Methods for Empirical Accounting and Finance Research – Part 2 |
16 April 2021 | Associate Professor Brian White University of Texas at Austin | The Effect of Uncertainty about Future Accounting Standards on Financial Reporting Quality |
13 November 2020 | Brown Bag Nancy Cao (PhD Student) Deakin University | PhD Progress Presentation |
16 October 2020 | Brown Bag Nancy Cao (PhD Student) Deakin University | PhD Progress Presentation |
9 October 2020 | Associate Professor Louise Lu Australian National University | Death is a Law: Death of Former Colleagues and Management Forecasts |
18 September 2020 | Professor Bin Ke | Company Visit Disclosure Regulation and Financial Analysts’ Behavior |
9 September 2020 | Associate Professor Luckmika Perera | Integrated Reporting, Risk and Audit Committee Integration – An exploratory study of Australia’s Top 200 Listed Companies |
4 September 2020 | Dr Sagarika Mishra | Client Firm Workplace Culture and Audit Pricing |
21 August 2020 | Associate Professor Johannes (John) Dumay | If the IIRC were a company, would I invest? |
14 August 2020 | Dr Chen Chen | Do Acquaintance Ties enhance Future Board Membership prospects of Tainted Independent Directors? |
7 August 2020 | Dr My Nguyen | Product Market Competition, Venture Capital and the Success of Entrepreneurial Firms |
24 July 2020 | Prof. Nancy Su | Reputation Recognition and Audit Outcomes: Evidence from Chinese Auditors |
3 July 2020 | Professor Bin Srinidhi | Does private information make analysts more accommodative of managers or strive harder to enhance client value? |
26 June 2020 | Dr. Gabriel Pundrich | Grammatical Violations and Financial Reporting Quality |
19 June 2020 | Dr Lyu Fan | Transportation infrastructure development and tax avoidance: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment |
12 June 2020 | Professor George Tanewski | Audit Pricing for Large Proprietary Companies in Australia |
28 May 2020 | Dr Lawrence Huang | Human Capital Relatedness and Labor Market-based Information Transfer |
24 April 2020 | Peter Vuong | In what ways are you making your online learning activities and resources engaging? |
17 April 2020 | Dr Samuel Cheung | Board Ethnic Diversity, Inter-Director Communication and the Quality of Accruals |
13 March 2020 | Professor David Lont, University of Otago, NZ | It’s Getting Hotter: EU Extreme Heat Spells and Firm Value |
6 March 2020 | Professor Brigitte Eierle and Dr Sven Hartlieb, University of Bamberg, Germany | Non-Audit Services, Audit Culture and Audit Quality: Evidence from the Private Client Segment Market |
21 February 2020 | Dr Stefan Schantl, | Governance Quality, Financial Reporting, and Shareholder Activism: The Economic Effects of Mandatory Executive Compensation Disclosure |
10 January 2020 12–1pm | Melbourne Burwood Campus, LB323. Geelong Waterfront Campus, ad3.307 (VMP) | Professor Ke Liao Wuhan University, China |
10 December 2019 | Prof. Zhifeng Yang State University of New York | Progress Presentation of Thesis on Translation of Integrated Reporting |
29 November 2019 | Chun Lu, Sumon Bhattacharjee – PhD Students | Progress Presentation of Thesis on Translation of Integrated Reporting – Sumon Bhattacharjee MS Borrowing from Employees to Finance Marketing Investment – Chun Lu |
22 November 2019 | Dr. Kevin Ow Yong Keng Singapore Institute of Technology | TBA |
8 November 2019 | Masoud Azizkhani University of Tasmania | "Specialized corporate disclosures and information asymmetry in U.S. capital market" |
1 November 2019 | Prof Allan Hodgson University of Queensland | “First Time Going Concern Opinions and Corporate Insider Arbitrage” |
18 October 2019 | Assoc Prof Dushyantkumar Vyas | PhD workshop |
18 October 2019 | Assoc Prof Dushyantkumar Vyas | Government Procurement and Financial Statements Certification: Evidence from Private Firms in Emerging Economies |
15 October 2019 | Assoc Prof Dushyantkumar Vyas | PhD workshop |
11 October 2019 | Dr Sunyoung Kim Monash University | Target ratcheting and CEO overconfidence |
4 October 2019 | Dr Yaowen Shan University of Technology Sydney | Empowering Minority Shareholders and Enhancing Director Accountability via Lower Voting Thresholds and Board Spills: Evidence from the Australian “Two-strikes” Rule |
26 September 2019 | Prof Keith Houghton | The Cost and Efficient Delivery of Research and Education in AACSB Accredited US Business Schools |
20 September 2019 | Dr Sharon Pittaway Deakin University | Engagement and participation: Same same or different and why does it matter? |
13 September 2019 | Professor Peter Clarkson University of Queensland | The Value Relevance of a Firm's Carbon Profile |
6 September 2019 | Professor Gary Monroe University of New South Wales | Managerial Litigation Risk and Auditor Choice |
3 September 2019 | Dr Yangyang Chen The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | PhD students workshop |
30 August 2019 | Dr Yangyang Chen The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Options Trading and Voluntary Corporate Disclosure |
16 August 2019 | Associate Professor Flora Kuang University of Melbourne | CFO Social Ties and Financial Restatements |
9 August 2019 | Associate Professor Bo Qin University of Melbourne | Mind the Gap? Firm Strategy and CEO-VP Pay Gap |
25 July 2019 | Dr Katherine Hunt Griffith University | 'A new approach to risk profiling' |
19 July 2019 | Professor Bin Srinidhi University of Texas at Arlington | PhD workshop |
16 July 2019 | Professor Bin Srinidhi University of Texas at Arlington | PhD workshop |
12 July 2019 | Professor Bin Srinidhi University of Texas at Arlington | Do Gender-diverse Audit Partners Deliver Better Audit Quality than When They Are Both Male or Female? |
1 July 2019 | Professor Jeffrey Pittman University of Newfoundland | Navigating the revision process at the major journals |
21 June 2019 |
Dr Wei Shi Deakin University | Crowding Out or Crowding In? The Impact of Public Firms’ IFRS Adoption on Private Firms’ Investment |
7 June 2019 | Associate Professor Annemieke Craig | Supporting Deakin’s Accounting TALENT into a career |
31 May 2019 | Associate Professor Phillip Dawson Deakin University | Developing Students' Feedback Literacy |
17 May 2019 |
Professor Zahirul Hoque La Trobe University | Linking top management team characteristics to management accounting systems sophistication: impact on organisational performance |
10 May 2019 |
Professor Woo-Jong Lee Seoul National University | “Flexible CPA Staffing: Implications for Audit Fees and Audit Quality” |
3 May 2019 |
Brown Bag Dr Egor Evdokimov Deakin University | "Search for a Turnaround Savior: Can External CEO succession mitigate Going Concern Modifications?" |
12 April 2019 | Professor Marc Cowling | Australian Zombies: How much resource are they hoarding? |
5 April 2019 | Brown Bag | Do Audit Partners Compromise Audit Independence for Clients Affiliated with Business Groups? Evidence from the Likelihood of Issuing Modified Audit Opinions in China |
22 March 2019 | Professor Ian Gow | Non-answers during conference calls |
15 March 2019 | Dr Ilias Basioudis |
Non-Audit Fees, Knowledge Spillovers and Going Concern Reporting Decisions: The Effect of Industry Specialization |
8 March 2019 | Brown Bag | An empirical study investigating students' perceptions of what matters for their engagement. |
1 March 2019 |
Brown Bag Dr Jun Yao Deakin University | Customer concentration, bad news withholding, and stock price crash risk. |
22 Feb 2019 |
Brown Bag Dr BJ Bobe Deakin University | The impact of university executive team gender diversity on organisational performance: evidence from Australia. |
15 Feb 2019 | Ms Fanyuan (Penny) Zhang | The Impact of Audit Committee Expertise on External Auditors' Disclosures of Key Audit Matters. |
23 Nov 2018 | Associate Professor Nick Sciulli Victoria University | Does Integrated Reporting Facilitate Stakeholder Engagement? |
16 Nov 2018 | Brown Bag | Andriyawan: Political Ideologies and Audit Fees Angel: Audit Pricing on Clients’ Internal Governance from Key Subordinate Executives |
13 Nov 2018 | Professor Elmar Venter | Quantitative research on integrated reporting |
9 Nov 2018 | Associate Professor Yupeng Lin | Sharing surplus with clients: Evidence from the protection of bank proprietary information |
24 Oct 2018 | Dr Sterling Huang | Controllability of Risk and the Design of Incentive-Compensation Contracts |
19 Oct 2018 | Professor Steven Cahan | Audit Firm Merger and Auditor Economic Behavior: Evidence from Entrance of Large Non-Big N Audit Firms |
15 Oct 2018 | Professor Sanjay Kallapur | Limitations of p-values and possible remedies for this |
5 Oct 2018 | Associate Professor Wen He | Auditor Ability and Audit Quality: Evidence from Graduate Migration in China. |
14 Sep 2018 | Dr Chung-Yu Hung | Does peer-specific knowledge improve relative performance evaluation? |
7 Sep 2018 |
Professor Vincent Chong University of Western Australia | The effect of delegation, rationalization and ethical climate on misreporting: A moderated-mediation study of financial services firms |
31 Aug 2018 |
Professor Neil Fargher Australian National University | Benefits and Costs of the Enhanced Auditor’s Report: Initial Evidence from Australia |
24 Aug 2018 |
Dr Nam Tran Melbourne Business School | The Relationship between Managerial Perceived Competition, Long-Term Investment and Future Operating Return |
15 Aug 2018 | Dr Serene Ni | Inefficiently Low Cost Stickiness: Evidence from Retiring CEOs |
27 Jul 2018 |
Dr Richard Kent QUT Business School Queensland University of Technology | Predicting Operating Cash Flows and Earnings using the Direct Method Compared to the Indirect Method Statement of Cash Flows |
20 Jul 2018 12pm-1pm |
Associate Professor Alvis Lo Boston College | The forecasting use of EBITDA covenants by equity investors |
13 Jul 2018 12pm-1pm | Professor Suresh Rashakrishnan University of Texas, Dallas | What's in a Name? Eponymous Private Firms and Financial Reporting Quality |
22 Jun 2018 |
Professor Bin Srinidhi University of Texas, Arlington | Agency Costs and Financial Disclosure Readability: Evidence from Family Controlled Firms |
18 May 2018 |
Brown Bag Dr Samuel Cheung | Aggressive Employment Policies, Internal Control Weaknesses, Financial Restatements and the Cost of Equity Capital |
27 Apr 2018 |
Brown Bag Puspa Muniandy (PhD student) | The Role of Institutional Investors in Moderating CEO Power and Compensation |
19 Apr 2018 |
Associate Professor Chen Chen Monash University | Clients' Financial Statement Comparability, Audit Fees and Audit Report Lag |
6 Apr 2018 |
Professor Jeffrey Ng Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Director Reflection Pressure and Earnings Management: Evidence from Majority Voting Legislation |
23 Mar 2018 | Dr Helen Choy Drexel University | Investor Sentiment and the Market Contagion Effect of Restatements |
16 Mar 2018 |
Brown Bag Professor Simon Fung | Tainted by Association? Non-culpable Signing Partners and Reputation Loss Following Enforcement Action against Audit Clients |
9 Mar 2018 |
Professor Vic Naiker Melbourne University | Audit Office Labor Market Proximity and Audit Quality |
23 Feb 2018 |
Brown Bag Dr Vincent Bicudo de Castro | Readability, tone and audit fees: some Australian evidence |
8 Dec 2017 | Rajiv Nair | PhD Student Presentation |
24 Nov 2017 | PhD student presentation | To be advised |
03 Nov 2017 |
Dr Dichu Bao Hong Kong Polytechnic University | The Value of External Audits: Evidence from Voluntary Audits of Hedge Funds |
1 Nov 2017 |
Professor Robert Blackburn of Kingston University Professor George Tanewski Dr Nick Mrockzkowski | SME Presentation |
27 Oct 2017 | Phillip Wong | Honours Presentation |
13 Oct 2017 12pm-1pm |
Dr Effiezal Aswadi Abdul Wahab Curtin University | Fees paid to Auditors, Political Patronage and Properties of Analysts Earnings Forecast in Malaysia |
6 Oct 2017 12pm-1:30pm |
Dr Walid Saffar Hong Kong Polytechnic University | The Effect of Timely Loan Loss Recognition in the Firms' Debt Choice |
22 Sep 2017 12pm-1:30pm |
Brown Bag Dr Lucia Lombardi Associate Professor Joanne Locke |
Luisa: an overview of the outcomes of ASP leave Joanne: Attempting faithful transformation - tracing the construction of the IFRS taxonomy |
15 Sep 2017 12pm-1pm |
Brown Bag Faizatul Ghazali (PhD Student) | Corporate social and environmental responsibility practices by Islamic financial institutions in Malaysia |
1 Sep 2017 12pm-1pm |
Iliyas Yusoff (PhD student) Monash University | Foreign Exchange Exposure and Analysts’ Earnings Forecasts |
25 Aug 2017 12pm-2pm |
Reading Circle Associate Professor Joanne Locke | Integrated Reporting (Qualitative) |
11 Aug 2017 12pm-2pm | Professor Nancy Su Lingnan University | Corporate Name-dropping and the Cost of Equity |
4 Aug 2017 12pm-2pm |
Dr Woo Jong Lee Seoul National University | Corporate Layoffs and Accounting Conservatism |
28 Jul 2017 12pm-1pm |
Brown Bag Dr Luckmika Perera | Political Visibility of Greenhouse Gas Emitters and Accruals-based Earnings Management |
14 Jul 2017 12pm-1pm |
Brown Bag Dr Karen Lai | The consequences of hoarding bad news: Some evidence from stock price crash risk and CEO turnover |
23 Jun 2017 2pm-2pm |
Dr Ke Wang University of Alberta | To be advised |
9 Jun 2017 12pm-2pm |
Professor Bin Srinidhi University of Texas at Arlington | To be advised |
2 Jun 2017 12pm-2pm |
Brown Bag
Dr Campbell Heggen Honours Presentation | Translating environmental motivations into performance - The role of values systems in embedding environmental commitment |
19 May 2017 12pm-2pm |
Professor Zoltan Matolcsy University of Technology Sydney | The Role of Powerful Non-Executive Chairman in Mergers and Acquisitions |
21 Apr 2017 12pm-2:30pm |
Reading Circle 2 Professor Ferdinand Gul, Michael Bray and Samuel Cheung | Integrated Reporting (Quantitative) |
28 Apr 2017 12pm–2pm |
Professor Elizabeth Carson UNSW Business School UNSW Australia | Assessing Initiatives to Improve the Quality of Group Audits |
3 Mar 2017 12pm–2:30pm |
Reading Circle 1 Professor Ferdinand Gul | Political Economy |
10 Mar 2017 12pm–2pm |
Dr Chrisann Lee QUT Business School Queensland University of Technology | Financial literacy and investment choice decisions: Evidence from Australian superannuation fund members. |
24 Mar 2017 12pm–2pm |
Brown bag 1 Elka Johansson | Reporting regulation and charities' accountability to stakeholders. |
31 Mar 2017 12pm-2pm |
Dr Anthony Ng Monash University | Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow and Investments in Business Sustainability |
24 Feb 2017 12pm–2pm |
Dr Jayanthi Kumarasiri Accounting, Economics and Finance Department, Faculty of Business and Law, Swinburne University of Technology | How Australia's biggest carbon emitting companies responded to the carbon tax |
3 Mar 2017 12pm–2:30pm |
Reading Circle 1 Professor Ferdinand Gul | Political Economy |
10 Mar 2017 12pm–2pm |
Dr Chrisann Lee QUT Business School Queensland University of Technology | Financial literacy and investment choice decisions: Evidence from Australian superannuation fund members. |
3 Feb 2017 12pm–2pm |
Venura Welagedara Associate Professor Harminder Singh Dr Saikat Deb Department of Finance | Analysts' reputation and post-recommendation drift. |
28 Oct 2016 12pm–1.30pm |
Brown Bag BJ Bobe Nazeh Baarini | BJ: Exploring the association between effective teaching, student learning approaches and learning outcome in university accounting education: a PLS-SEM modeling analysis |
11 Nov 2016 12pm–1:30pm |
Brown Bag Andriy Sasmita Amirul Nasir | Amirul: Financial reporting quality and investment of audited small private firms at different life-cycle stages". |
18 Nov 2016 |
Dr Like Jiang University of Melbourne | TBA |
Seminar date | Topic | |
14 Oct 2016 | Market Reactions to Auditor Switches under a Regulatory Consent Regime: Evidence from Australia | |
7 Oct 2016 | Integrated Reporting Research | |
2 Sep 2016 | The Association between Financial Reporting Quality and Inventory Investment Efficiency | |
26 August 2016 | TBA | |
26 August 2016 | David and Goliath - a tale of intra-professional conflict | |
19 August 2016 | Voluntary versus Mandatory Implementations of China SOX and Analyst Forecasts | |
12 August 2016 | Social Networking by University Accounting Students: Its impact on academic performance, student engagement and student life | |
29 July 2016 |
Puspa Muniandy - Paper 2: The role of institutional investors in moderating CEO power and their compensation. Cheryl Phuah - Auditor Independence and Audit Quality in Malaysia: The Effects of Director—Auditor Links and Ethnicity—an update | |
22 July 2016 | What drives non-executive director compensation in pension funds? Evidence from Australian superannuation | |
15 July 2016 | Do Auditors Strive to Improve Audit Quality After Sanctions? Evidence from an Emerging Market | |
28 June 2016 | The Provision of Non-Audit Services and Audit Fees: Does Sourcing Arrangement of Internal Audit Matters? | |
20 June 2016 | A Theoretical Framework of External Accounting Communication: Research Perspectives, Traditions, and Theories | |
27 May 2016 | Do managers use share prices to mitigate investor short-termism? | |
20 May 2016 | The influence of proprietary costs on charities' reporting practices and the market for contributions | |
20 May 2016 | TBA | |
29 April 2016 | TBA | |
22 April 2016 | Shaping the future of accounting and business education | |
1 April 2016 | Changes in voluntary audit, credit scores and ownership concentration | |
18 March 2016 | Regulatory impact of voluntary climate change-related reporting by Australian government-owned corporations | |
29 January 2016 | Does media coverage improve investment efficiency? | |
26 February 2016 | TBA | |
4 March 2016 | The value relevance of the reclassification of non-derivative financial instruments: a cross-country study | |
13 Nov 2015 | Is advertising value relevant? Multi-dimensional analysis of markets and informed traders | |
6 Nov 2015 | Public Accounts Committee of India | |
6 Nov 2015 | Self-managed super funds: what is the real cost? | |
30 Oct 2015 | Current and future trends in auditing research | |
14 Oct 2015 | How to get published in quality accounting journals | |
9 Oct 2015 | Who joins a sinking ship? Some evidence on the market reaction and characteristics of independent directors who join fraudulent firms | |
25 Sept 2015 | Opportunities and challenges of using Islamic financial System in Australia | |
11 Sept 2015 | Separating auditor provided tax compliance and tax planning services: financial reporting implications | |
28 Aug 2015 | Voluntary disclosure of corporate social responsibility and quality of forward-looking information. | |
28 Aug 2015 | PhD presentation | |
14 Aug 2015 | Keeping the market informed: How effective is the market operator's monitoring of listed firms. | |
7 Aug 2015 | SME research – ABS longitudinal data on SME | |
7 Aug 2015 | ORBIS and FAME database | |
31 Jul 2015 | Does a firm's life cycle explain its propensity to engage in corporate tax avoidance? | |
24 Jul 2015 | Research opportunities arising from new reporting and assurance initiatives | |
24 Jul 2015 | Power relations and boards of directors: differentiating control, monitoring and oversight | |
26 Jun 2015 | The influence of remuneration committee existence and effectiveness on CEO compensation | |
26 Jun 2015 | Environmental performance and value creation | |
5 Jun 2015 | Longer term audit costs of IFRS and the differential impact of implied auditor cost structures | |
22 May 2015 | Fostering and forcing uses of accounting: labour-management negotiations in the automotive crisis in Canada 2008–2009 | |
8 May 2015 | Estimation bias and monitoring in clean development mechanism projects. Co-authors: Hui Chen (University of Zurich) and Peter Letmathe (RWTH Aachen University) | |
24 Apr 2015 | The moderating effects of large block holders and governance attributes on the relationship between Institutional Investors and firm performance | |
24 Apr 2015 | Charity reporting practices | |
20 Mar 2015 | Developing creative accountants: an opening up of the accounting curriculum through visual and reflective exploration | |
13 Mar 2015 | The relationship between emissions and earnings management in the presence of environmental legislation |