Events and Seminars

We hold seminars throughout the academic year. If you wish to present a paper to the group or if you would like further information on the seminars please contact us on 024 765 28228 or accounting dot group at wbs dot ac dot uk

We have a long-standing and successful Research Seminar Series, recent presenters include Bjorn Jorgensen, Clive Lennox and Mark Bradshaw.

Autumn Term 2025/26

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Title
26/11/25	Manyun Maureen Tang	Saïd Business School, University of Oxford	TBC
19/11/25	Lucas Lee	ie University	TBC
05/11/25	Juan Felipe Imbed	Paris Dauphine University	TBC
23/10/25	Cameron Grant	Schulich School of Business, York University	TBC
15/10/25	Marcin Kacperczyk	Imperial Collage London	TBC
08/10/25	Zhongnan Xiang	WBS	TBC

Summer Term 2024/25

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Title
18/06/25	Tzu-Ting Chiu	NNH Norwegian School of Economics	Does Social Connectedness between Geographic Regions Mitigate Supply Chain Investment Inefficiency?
05/06/25	Selina Pei / Raffaele Manini	WBS	Green Governance: How Investors Shape Environmental Expertise On Boards
04/06/25	Peter Pope	Bocconi University	Do Employees Value Defined Benefit Pension Plans? Evidence from Employee Satisfaction Ratings
14/05/25	Tomasso Palermo	London School of Economics	Engaging through accounting: Translation work in an NGO network
30/04/25	Bret Johnson	George Mason University	De Facto Tier-Based Regulation in the SEC Filing Review Process
29/04/25	Xiaoxi Wu	Bocconi University	Country-Specific Sentiment and Geographic Segment Disclosure

Spring Term 2024/25

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Title
20/03/25	Karthik Balakrishnan	WBS / Rice University	Forward-looking information Loan Loss Reserves Under CECL
19/03/25	Wayne Guay	Pennsylvania University	Internal Information Quality and Performance Metric Selection
12/03/25	Andrea Mennicken	London School of Economics	Dignifying Performance Measurement in Modern Slavery Survivor Care
05/03/25	Jeffrey Hales	Texas Austin University	Credible disclosure or mere puffery? Empirical evidence on the voluntary use of sustainability disclosure standards
26/02/25	Marian Gatzweiler	University of Edinburgh	The Non-Production of an Accounting Standard: Climate Change, Emissions Trading, and Legitimacy Maintenance
19/02/25	Leona Wiegmann	ESCP	Anticipatory Control – Forecast Meetings as Spaces of Agitation
12/02/25	Gilles Hilary	Georgetown University	Partisan Alignment and Corporate Coordination