Research seminars

Upcoming seminars

2023

Date/Time	Presenter	Topic
Fri 3 November	Professor Andrew Ferguson University of Technology Sydney	Choice to capitalise under IASB 6 and mine environmental approvals
Fri 10 November	Professor Greg Clinch	TBC
Fri 17 November	Professor Xi (Jason) Kuang Georgia Institute of Technology	TBC
Fri 24 November	Professor Roger Simnett, Deakin University	TBC
Friday 1 December	Dr Cynthia Cai, Macquarie University	TBC
Friday 8 December	Dr Nicholas Pawsey, Charles Sturt University	TBC

Past seminars

2023

Date	Presenter	Topic
20 October 2023	Dr Sandip Dhole Monash University	Carbon Footprints and Creditworthiness: International Evidence on Suppliers’ Strategic Shift in Trade Credit Allocation
13 October 2023	Assistant Professor In Gyun Baek National University of Singapore	Ambiguous ESG Metrics in Executive Compensation
6 October 2023	Professor Max Göttsche and Dr Florian Habermann Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadtthat	Materiality Classifications as a Double-Edged Sword: Real Effects of Sustainability Disclosure Standards
22 September	Professor Martin Bugeja The University of Technology Sydney	The dark side of company information search: Evidence from M&A Targets
1 September 2023	Professor Roger Simnett Deakin University	Workshop on research grant application
25 August 2023	Dr Dan Rimkus University of Florida	Should Auditors Invite the CFO to Happy Hour? How Status Differences Moderate the Effect of Auditor-Manager Social Bonding on Manager Disposition.
18 July 2023	Professor of Practice Mr Michael Bray Deakin University	Integrated Reporting Sustainability Seminar
14 July 2023	Dr Wei Shi Deakin University	Tax Avoidance and Competition for Capital When Debt Market is Tightened: International Evidence
7 July 2023	Associate Professor Richard Crowley Singapore Management University	Does Misinformation Regulation Reduce Fake News in Financial Markets? Evidence from East Guba
6 July 2023	Sriniwas Mahapatro Deakin University, PhD confirmation	Effects of Joint Audits on Financial Reporting Quality of Banks
23 June 2023	Professor Lisa Liu Columbia University	The Effect of Public Firm Audit Regulation on Private Firm Auditing: Audit-Partner-Level Evidence
9 June 2023	Professor Greg Clinch Deakin University	Brownbag discussion
19 May 2023	Mr Furqan Shah Deakin University	Does the Practice of Integrated Reporting Mitigate Generalist Managers' Inefficient Resource Alignment and Configuration?
5 May 2023	Professor Yupeng Lin National University of Singapore	To centralise or not: Control right allocation and auditor incentives
28 April 2023	Professor Ruishen Zhang Shanghai University of Finance and Economics	Measurement Intensity
27 April 2023	Professor of Practice, Mr Michael Bray Deakin University	IR Sustainability Seminar
21 April 2023	Associate Professor Leonardo Barcellos Arizona State University	Can Investors See Through Managers’ Evasive Responses in Earnings Calls?
20 April 2023	Professor Greg Clinch Deakin University	Brownbag discussion
14 April 2023	Associate Professor Ryan Sommerfeldt Washington State University	Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: The Tolerance Spillover Effect in Ethical Decision Making
31 March 2023	Professor Christo Karuna Monash University	Managerial Ability and Employee Safety
24 March 2023	Dr Kevin Li The University of New South Wales	Is auditors’ migration status associated with their performance?
17 March 2023	Professor Ivo Tafkov Georgia State University	The Effects of Organizational Culture and Real Earnings Management on Managers’ Discretionary Goal Adjustments
10 March 2023	Professor Gabriel Pündrich University of Florida	Regulating Financial Advice: Evidence from the Municipal Bond Market
24 February 2023	Professor Flora Kuang The University of Melbourne	Does CEO Charity Involvement Indicate a Prosocial Identity?
17 February 2023	Professor Greg Clinch Deakin University	Strategically Timed Voluntary Disclosures before Conferences: Global Evidence
27 January 2023	Professor Shiheng Wang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Strategically Timed Voluntary Disclosures before Conferences: Global Evidence

2022

Date	Presenter	Topic
26 August 2022	Associate Professor Dennis Fehrenbacher St Gallen University, Switzerland
19 August 2022	Professor Michael Davern University of Melbourne
29 July 2022	Associate Professor Sorabh Tomar Southern Methodist University (SMU)US	Greenhouse Gas Disclosure and Emissions Benchmarking
22 July 2022	Professor Ying Huang University of Texas, Dallas	Whistleblowing Threat and Corporate Disclosure
15 July 2022	Mr Xing Yang University of Melbourne	Can external auditors deter labor union misconduct?
7 July 2022	Dr Wei Shi Deakin University	Stay Distinct, Stay Silent - The Impact of Business Strategy on Disclosure Choice and Firm Value
24 June 2022	Associate Professor Sean Dennis University of Central Florida	"Alexa, Audit Loan Grades!": Does Humanising Artificial Intelligence Enhance Auditor Reliance?
10 June 2022	Associate Professor Yuyan Guan	The Impact of Credit Market Development on Auditor Choice: Evidence from Banking Deregulation
3 June 2022	Associate Professor Luke Watson Villanova University, Pennsylvania	Tax Policy through Executive Power and the Firm Value Effects of Treasury Regulations
20 May 2022	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

2021

Date	Presenter	Topic
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

2020

Date	Presenter	Topic
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	Professor 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	Professor Ke Liao Wuhan University, China

2019

Date	Presenter	Topic
10 December 2019	Professor 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	Professor Allan Hodgson University of Queensland	“First Time Going Concern Opinions and Corporate Insider Arbitrage”
18 October 2019	Associate Professor Dushyantkumar Vyas	PhD workshop
18 October 2019	Associate Professor Dushyantkumar Vyas	Government Procurement and Financial Statements Certification: Evidence from Private Firms in Emerging Economies
15 October 2019	Associate Professor 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 February 2019	Brown Bag Dr BJ Bobe Deakin University	The impact of university executive team gender diversity on organisational performance: evidence from Australia.
15 February 2019	Ms Fanyuan (Penny) Zhang Australian National University	The Impact of Audit Committee Expertise on External Auditors' Disclosures of Key Audit Matters.

2018

Date	Presenter	Topic
23 November 2018	Associate Professor Nick Sciulli Victoria University	Does Integrated Reporting Facilitate Stakeholder Engagement?
16 November 2018	Brown Bag Andriyawan Sasmita Angel Sung	Andriyawan: Political Ideologies and Audit Fees Angel: Audit Pricing on Clients’ Internal Governance from Key Subordinate Executives
13 November 2018	Professor Elmar Venter University of Pretoria	Quantitative research on integrated reporting
9 November 2018	Associate Professor Yupeng Lin National University of Singapore	Sharing surplus with clients: Evidence from the protection of bank proprietary information
24 October 2018	Dr Sterling Huang Singapore Management University	Controllability of Risk and the Design of Incentive-Compensation Contracts
19 October 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 October 2018	Professor Sanjay Kallapur India School of Business	Limitations of p-values and possible remedies for this
5 October 2018	Associate Professor Wen He University of Queensland Business School	Auditor Ability and Audit Quality: Evidence from Graduate Migration in China.
14 September 2018	Dr Chung-Yu Hung University of Melbourne	Does peer-specific knowledge improve relative performance evaluation?
7 September 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 August 2018	Professor Neil Fargher Australian National University	Benefits and Costs of the Enhanced Auditor’s Report: Initial Evidence from Australia
24 August 2018	Dr Nam Tran Melbourne Business School	The Relationship between Managerial Perceived Competition, Long-Term Investment and Future Operating Return
15 August 2018	Dr Serene Ni UTS Business School Programs (Shanghai) UTS Business School	Inefficiently Low Cost Stickiness: Evidence from Retiring CEOs
27 July 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 July 2018	Associate Professor Alvis Lo Boston College	The forecasting use of EBITDA covenants by equity investors
13 July 2018	Professor Suresh Rashakrishnan University of Texas, Dallas	What's in a Name? Eponymous Private Firms and Financial Reporting Quality
22 June 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 April 2018	Brown Bag Puspa Muniandy (PhD student)	The Role of Institutional Investors in Moderating CEO Power and Compensation
19 April 2018	Associate Professor Chen Chen Monash University	Clients' Financial Statement Comparability, Audit Fees and Audit Report Lag
6 April 2018	Professor Jeffrey Ng Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Director Reflection Pressure and Earnings Management: Evidence from Majority Voting Legislation
23 March 2018	Dr Helen Choy Drexel University	Investor Sentiment and the Market Contagion Effect of Restatements
16 March 2018	Brown Bag Professor Simon Fung	Tainted by Association? Non-culpable Signing Partners and Reputation Loss Following Enforcement Action against Audit Clients
9 March 2018	Professor Vic Naiker Melbourne University	Audit Office Labor Market Proximity and Audit Quality
23 February 2018	Brown Bag Dr Vincent Bicudo de Castro	Readability, tone and audit fees: some Australian evidence