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.group@wbs.ac.uk

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

Summer Term 2024/25

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Title
14/05/25	Tomasso Palermo	London School of Economics	TBC
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

Autumn Term 2024/25

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Title
04/12/24	Tan Do	Bayes Business School	Identifying peer firms based on consumer visits and credit card spending to related brand stores
27/11/24	Tanya Fiedler	University of New South Wales	Navigating Expertise in a Changing Climate
20/11/24	Angela Lorenz/ Lisa Liu	WBS	New QAA Subject Benchmark Statement for Accounting
06/11/24	Taylor Spears	University of Edinburgh	How risk translation facilitates field reconfiguration: the case of “credit valuation adjustments” in the OTC derivatives markets
30/10/24	Furkan Cetin	London School of Economics	Measuring Innovative Capacity Using Machine Learning
23/10/24	Mariya Ivanova	Stockholm School of Economics	Executive Bonus Adjustments to Industry Non-Financial Violations
21/10/24	Yaqiong Grace Zhou	WBS	Do Female Auditors Benefit from the Audit Firm Expansion?
16/10/24	Linda Myers	University of Tennessee	Do Firms Receiving Integrated Audits Seek to Strategically Obfuscate Material Weakness Opinions?
11/10/24	Dan Segal	WBS / Reichman University	Analyst Strong Views and Market Reactions
09/10/24	Jenny Wu Tucker	University of Florida	Corporate adoption of artificial intelligence and subsequent product market performance