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

Summer Term 2023/24

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Title
08/05/24	Facundo Mercado	WBS	TBC
24/04/24	Guanlin Gary Wang	Bristol University	Motivation and Gamification: Internalisation of external incentives in an online learning platform
23/04/24	Tassiani Dos Santos	Durham University	“Who Are You?”: Silence and Melancholia as a Psychic Operation of Power in Diverse Accounting Spaces
23/04/24	Haley Beer	WBS	What is it like to measure impact? A phenomenological inquiry

Spring Term 2023/24

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Paper Title
17/04/24	Jenny Chu	Cambridge University	Corporate Social Responsibility Committee: International Evidence
10/04/24	Suresh Govindaraj	Rutgers	Optimal Consumption-Investment Decisions with Tax Exclusions and Tax Policy Uncertainty
04/04/24	Sruthi R	Indian Institute of Technology, Madras	Role of Institutional Investors in Pledging Risk: Evidence from India
03/04/24	Stefano Cascino	London School of Economics	Does CEO Inside Debt Really Improve Financial Reporting Quality?
27/03/24	Mike Power	London School of Economics	The Economy of Traces - Traceability, tracking and the accounts we live by. Theorising Traceability (chapter 1).
21/03/24	April Klein	NYU Stern / WBS	Do Investors Value Workplace Diversity?
13/03/24	Leonid Sokolovskyy	Manchester University	Disappointed World-Builders: The Case of Developing Human Rights Services in the Big 4
28/02/24	Patricia Naranjo Olivares	Rice University	The Impact of Mandatory Closed Periods on Corporate Insider Trading
07/02/24	Mark Bradshaw	Boston College	Short Sellers’ Information Advantage: Analyzing Short Selling Reports and Information Sources
24/01/24	Daniel Qilin Peng	University College Dublin	ESG Considerations in Acquisitions and Divestitures: Corporate Responses to Mandatory ESG Disclosure
05/01/24	Dr. Hendrik VollmerLink opens in a new window / Prof. Rania KamlaLink opens in a new window / Prof. Nicholas McGuiganLink opens in a new window	British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA)	6th Alternative Accounts Europe (AAE) ConferenceLink opens in a new window

Autumn Term 2023/24

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Paper Title
15/012/23	Clive Lennox	University of Southern California	An explanation of path analysis and recommendations for best practice
06/12/23	Hila Fogel-Yaari	University of Texas at Arlington	Fostering Trust: Financial Disclosure Quality and Innovation
08/11/23	Xi Li	London School of Economics	Financial Innovation via Sustainable Lending
25/10/23	Lewei Zhu	CUNEF University	Auditor and Client Investment Efficiency: Informational Advantage Obtained through Auditing Industry-Leader Clients
18/10/23	Bjorn Jorgensen	Copenhagen School of Business	Do Accounting Standards Affect Audit Matters? Evidence from Twin Firms
12/10/23	Philip Joos	Tilburg University	ESG Transparency of Private Equity and Debt Firms
04/10/23	Dhanya Krishna Kumar	WBS	Prevention is Better than Cure: Leveraging the Anticipatory Power of the Slippery Slope Phenomenon