Research seminars - Department of Accounting

Upcoming seminars

2022

Date/time	Presenter	Topic
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
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 Ithaca NY	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, The University of Melbourne	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 Deakin University	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 Brighton Business School	Australian Zombies: How much resource are they hoarding?
5 April 2019	Brown Bag Professor Simon Fung Deakin University	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 University of Melbourne	Non-answers during conference calls
15 March 2019	Dr Ilias Basioudis Aston University	Non-Audit Fees, Knowledge Spillovers and Going Concern Reporting Decisions: The Effect of Industry Specialization
8 March 2019	Brown Bag Ms Joanna Tai Deakin University	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 Australian National University	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 12pm-1pm	Brown Bag Andriyawan Sasmita Angel Sung	Andriyawan: Political Ideologies and Audit Fees Angel: Audit Pricing on Clients’ Internal Governance from Key Subordinate Executives
13 Nov 2018	Professor Elmar Venter University of Pretoria	Quantitative research on integrated reporting
9 Nov 2018	Associate Professor Yupeng Lin National University of Singapore	Sharing surplus with clients: Evidence from the protection of bank proprietary information
24 Oct 2018	Dr Sterling Huang Singapore Management University	Controllability of Risk and the Design of Incentive-Compensation Contracts
19 Oct 2018	Professor Steven Cahan The University of Auckland	Audit Firm Merger and Auditor Economic Behavior: Evidence from Entrance of Large Non-Big N Audit Firms
15 Oct 2018	Professor Sanjay Kallapur India School of Business	Limitations of p-values and possible remedies for this
5 Oct 2018	Associate Professor Wen He University of Queensland Business School	Auditor Ability and Audit Quality: Evidence from Graduate Migration in China.
14 Sep 2018	Dr Chung-Yu Hung University of Melbourne	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 UTS Business School Programs (Shanghai) UTS Business School	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

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