Conferences, seminars and events
Research seminar series
Each year the Department of Accounting invites some of the brightest minds in the field of accounting to present at our seminar series.
Our research seminars provide an environment in which research ideas are exchanged, discussed and critiqued. It allows our staff and students the opportunity to meet with some of the brightest minds in the field, which makes this series an invaluable learning and networking opportunity.
The seminars cover a wide range of topics, which encompass both pure and applied research. Anyone who is interested in the field of accounting is welcome to attend our research seminar series.
Contact
If you wish to obtain a copy of a paper, or if you have any other enquiries, please email:
Dr Ahmed Abdalla
Accounting seminar coordinator
Email: ahmed.abdalla@monash.edu
Seminars are held at 11am – 12pm unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Presenter | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Fri 17 Mar | Prof Stephen Taylor – University of Technology, Sydney | HB40, Caulfield |
| Thurs 23 Mar | Prof Frank Ecker – Frankfurt School of Finance | Online via Zoom |
| Wed 5 Apr | A/Prof Bertrand Malsch – Queen’s University, Canada | H125, Caulfield |
| Fri 21 Apr | Dr Leonard Li – University of New South Wales | HB40, Caulfield |
| Tues 30 May | Prof Steve Kaplan – Arizona State University | HB39, Caulfield |
| Tues 6 Jun | A/Prof Dan Zhou – University of Illinois | HB39, Caulfield |
| Fri 23 Jun | Prof Niamh Brennan – University College, Dublin, Ireland | HB39, Caulfield |
| Fri 4 Aug | A/Prof Lili Dai – University of new South Wales | H921, Caulfield |
| Thu 24 Aug | Prof David Bedford - University Technology Sydney | TBC |
| Fri 8 Sep | Prof Naomi Soderstrom – University of Melbourne | TBC |
| Fri 15 Sep | A/Prof Buhui Qui - University of Sydney | H921, Caulfield |
| Fri 6 Oct | Prof Jenny Tucker – University of Florida | TBC |
| Fri 13 Oct | Prof Prabhu Sivabalan - University Technology Sydney | TBC |
| Fri 3 Nov | Asst. Prof Matthew Shaffer - University of Southerm California | Online via Zoom |
| Fri 1 Dec | Dr Roel Boomsma - University Technology Sydney | HB36, Caulfield |
Seminars are held at 11am-12pm unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Presenter | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 26/02/2021 | A/Professor Flora Kuang - University of Melbourne | Zoom |
| 26/02/2021, 6-7pm | Professor Crawford Spence - King’s College, London | Zoom |
| 16/04/2021, 9-10am | Professor Michal Matejka – Arizona State University | Zoom |
| 07/05/2021, 4-5pm | A/Professor Stephan Kramer – Erasmus University, Rotterdam | Zoom |
| 21/05/2021 | Professor Albert Tsang - Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Zoom |
| 11/06/2021 | Professor Jake Rose – Monash University/ University of Waikato | Zoom |
| 02/07/2021 | A/Professor Yupeng Lin - National University of Singapore | Zoom |
| 16/07/2021 | Professor Shivaram Rajgopal - Columbia University | Zoom |
| 13/08/2021 | Professor Yangyang Chen - City University of Hong Kong | Zoom |
|
27/08/2021, 10-11am | A/Professor David Wang - De Paul University | Zoom |
| 15/10/2021, 9-10am | Professor Jasmijn Bol, Tulane University, New Orleans | Zoom |
| Date | Presenter | Title | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24/01/2020 |
Professor Matthias Mahlendorf (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management) | Adaptive vs strategic responses to the asymmetric ratcheting of external performance expectations | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| 21/02/2020 |
Professor Christoph Pelger (University of Innsbruck) | Global standards without the United States? Institutional work and the US non-adoption of IFRS | Clayton, H2 |
| 28/02/2020 |
Professor Neil Marriott (University of Winchester) | Integrated reporting in universities: institutional and pedagogic opportunities | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| 31/07/2020 |
Professor Neil Fargher (Australian National University) | The impact of thinking approach on offshore auditors' judgement quality in performing analytical procedures | Zoom |
| 14/08/2020 |
Dr Jay Jung (City University of London) | Is your surname remunerative? Surname favourability and CEO compensation | Zoom |
| 21/08/2020 |
Professor Naomi Soderstrom (University of Melbourne) | Impact of cultural and institutional factors on disclosures of innovation and cybersecurity in Chinese cross-listed firms | Zoom |
| 11/09/2020 |
Associate Professor Louise Lu (Australian National University) | Death is a law: Death of former colleagues and management forecasts | Zoom |
| 25/09/2020 |
Dr Lili Dai (University of New South Wales) | Risk Factor Disclosure and Debt Contracting | Zoom |
| 09/10/2020 |
Professor Zheng Whang (City University of Hong Kong) | Employee Cognitive Ability and Quality of Management Forecasts | Zoom |
| 16/10/2020 |
Professor Vic Naiker (University of Melbourne) | Revisiting the effects of audit partner industry expertise on audit quality | Zoom |
| 30/10/2020 |
Professor David Hay (University of Auckland) | The Impact of Audit Inspections on Audit Quality and Auditor Compensation | Zoom |
| 13/11/2020 | A/Professor Jun (Alex) Yao - Deakin University | TBA | Zoom |
| 20/11/2020 |
Professor Alfred Yawson (University of Adelaide) | TBA | Zoom |
Seminars are held at 11am-12pm unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Presenter | Title | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22/02/2019 | Professor Isabella Grabner – Vienna University of Economics | Managing the Trade-off between Delegation and Task Interdependence in Creative Teams: The Role of Personnel and Cultural Controls | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| 8/03/2019 | Professor Walter Schuster – Stockholm School of Economics | The International Accounting Standards Board’s Project Financial Statement Presentation | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| 15/03/2019 | Professor Ian Gow – University of Melbourne | Non-answers during conference calls | Caulfield, HB.39 |
| 29/03/2019 | Dr Nam Tran – Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne | Does Loan Financing Matter for M&A Gains? | Clayton, H5 Menzies Building |
| 12/04/2019 | A/Professor Yangyang Chen - Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Captured by Mutual Funds: Do Cross-Audits Undermine Auditor Independence? | Caulfield, HB.39 |
| 03/05/2019 10.00am-11.00am | Professor Vic Naiker - University of Melbourne | CEOs Shape Up or Lose Out | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| 17/05/2019 | A/Professor Flora Kuang – University of Melbourne | CFO Social Ties and Financial Restatements | Caulfield, HB.39 |
| 14/06/2019 | Professor Marc Wouters – Karslruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany | Justifications for decision-supporting calculations: A field study of why and how management accountants provide details and explanations | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| 28/06/2019 | A/Professor Khim Kelly – University of Central Florida | Is More Always Better? An Experimental Examination of the Effects of Feedback, Reward Frequency, and Narcissism on Employees' Effort Intensity and Effort Persistence | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| 11/07/2019 | Dr Oscar Stewart - San Francisco State University | Exploring Diversity and Inclusion in the Business Classroom | Caulfield, H9.21 |
| 12/07/2019 | Professor Jee-Hae Lim - University of Hawaii | The Impact of Information Security Breaches on Stock Return Synchronicity | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| 26/07/2019 | Professor Sven Modell – Manchester University | Across the Great Divide: Bridging the Gap between Economics and Sociology-based Research on Management Accounting | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| 23/08/2019 | Dr Roel Boomsma – University of Sydney | Producing evidence of social impact: A field study of an Australian non-governmental development organisation |
Caulfield, H1.25 |
| 30/08/2019 | Prof. Helen Tregidga - University of London | Not at our table: Stakeholder exclusion and (ant)agonistic engagements | Clayton, H2 (Menzies Building) |
| 6/09/2019 | Professor Sue Wright – University of Technology Sydney | Does better governance improve the quality of non-GAAP earnings disclosures? | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| 25/09/2019 | Professor Peter Skaerbaek - Copenhagen Business School | Internal auditing as an obstacle to an emergent innovation programme – A case study within Danish central government and its Tax Agency | Caulfield, H2.38 |
| 18/10/2019 | Professor Phil Shane - William and Mary School of Business / Monash University | 10-K Complexity, Analysts' Forecasts, and Price Discovery in Capital Markets | Clayton, H2 (Menzies Building) |
| 01/11/2019 | Associate Professor Wen He - University of Queensland | Migration, Ability and Audit Quality: Evidence from Audit Partners in China | Caulfield, HB.39 |
| 15/11/2019 | Dr Alessandro Ghio - Monash University | Working Paper | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| 15/11/2019 | A/Professor Brian Miller - Indiana University | Wearing Out the Watchdog: SEC Case Backlog and Investigation Likelihood | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Date | Presenter | Title | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday 30 November | Kumari Ranjeeni Monash University | Board Gender Diversity, Proprietary Cost and Equity Undervaluation | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Friday 30 November | Associate Professor Chan Li Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh | Component Auditor Usage and Audit Quality | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Tuesday 20 November | Ms Xuedan (Wendy) Tao The University of Hong Kong | The Effect of Mandatory Disclosure of Tax Uncertainty on Investment Efficiency: Evidence from FIN 48* | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Tuesday 20 November | Professor Karen Sedatole Emory University | The effect of supplier industry competition on pay-for-performance incentive intensity | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Friday 9 November | Ms Annemarie Conrath-Hargreaves Monash University | Research interests and working paper presentation | Clayton, LTB 204 |
| Friday 9 November | Professor Paul Mather LaTrobe University | The Director Expectation Gap and Hindsight Bias | Clayton, LTB 204 |
| Monday 5 November | Professor Patrick Hopkins and Professor Leslie Hodder Indiana University | An Investigation of Auditors’ Judgements when Companies Release Earnings before Audit Completion | Caulfield, H9.21 |
| Friday 26 October | Professor Sterling Huang Singapore Management University | Controllability of Risk and the Design of Incentive-Compensation Contracts | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Friday 26 October | Assistant Professor Sterling Huang Singapore Management University | Controllability of Risk and the Design of Incentive-Compensation Contracts | HB.40, Caulfield |
| Friday 19 October | Ms Jenny Guan Monash University | Research interests and working paper presentation | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Friday 19 October | Professor Peter Easton University of Notre Dame | Conservative Accounting and Free Cash Flow | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Tuesday 16 October | Ms Laura Caluwe University of Antwerp, Belgium | How Boards of Directors Can Contribute to Governing | Caulfield, H2.37 |
| Friday 12 October | Dr Edward Tello Monash University | Working paper presentation | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Friday 12 October | Professor Huai Zhang Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | Styles of regulators: Evidence from the SEC’s comment letters | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Friday 12 October | Professor Huai Zhang Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | Styles of regulators: Evidence from the SEC’s comment letters | HB.40, Caulfield |
| Friday 5 October | A/Professor Prabhu Sivabalan University of Technology Sydney |
Family firms and control system design a socioemotional wealth perspective | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Friday 14 September | Dr Sukari Farrington and Ms Lu Yang Monash University | Research interests presentation | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Friday 14 September | Professor David Smith University of Queensland | Moments of Resistance: A subjunctive view of performance and impact texts in non-governmental organisations | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Friday 7 September | Dr John Ko Monash University | Research interests and working paper presentation | Clayton, LTB 204 |
| Friday 7 September | Professor Wai Fong Chua University of Sydney |
Capital Investment in Action A Study of the Construction of the Credibility of a Long-Term Capital Proposal | Clayton, LTB 204 |
| Friday 24 August | Dr Sandip Dhole Monash University | Working paper presentation | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Friday 24 August | Professor Jake Rose Oregon State University/Monash University | Effects of Data Visualisation on Auditors’ and Jurors’ Judgements | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Friday 17 August | Professor Eddy Cardinaels KU Leuven University | How Managers’ on the Job Experience Affects Compensation Design | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Friday 27 July | Dr Jin Zhang Monash University | Research interests and working paper presentation | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Friday 27 July | A/Professor George Yang The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Analysts’ Beauty and Their Performance | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Friday 13 July | Professor Phil Shane Monash University/College of William and Mary | Do Financial Analysts Generate Value-Relevant Interpretive Information from Analysis of 10-K Filings? | Caulfield, HB.40 |
| Friday 13 July | Professor Phil Shane Monash University | Do Financial Analysts Generate Value-Relevant Interpretive Information from Analysis of 10-K Filings? | HB.40, Caulfield |
| Friday 22 June | Professor Jeff Ng The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | The Effect of Timely Loan Loss Recognition in the Banking System on Firms’ Debt Structure | HB.39, Caulfield |
| Wednesday 20 June | Professor Aloke Ghosh Baruch College, City University of New York | Quasi Rents to Audit Firms from Longer Tenure | HB.40, Caulfield |
| Friday 25 May | Professor Timothy Fogarty Case Western Reserve University, Ohio | Has the New World Order Taught the Big Four to Manage Client Portfolio Risk? Examining Extreme Loss Occurrences before and after Sarbanes Oxley | HB.40, Caulfield |
| Friday 18 May | Prof. Hun Tong Tan Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | You Have Been Forewarned! The Effects of Risk Management Disclosures and Disclosure Tone on Investors’ Judgements | HB.40, Caulfield |
| Friday 4 May | Dr James Wakefield University of Technology Sydney | Implications of social media exposure on task per-formance | E365, Clayton |
| Friday 27 April | Professor Ken Trotman University of New South Wales | How Audit Committee Chairs Seek to Overcome Group Information Processing Barriers: A Field Study | HB.40, Caulfield |
| Friday 13 April | Professor Efrim Boritz University of Waterloo, Canada | How Understandable are SOX 404 Auditors’ Reports? | HB.40, Caulfield |
| Friday 23 March | Professor Shane Dikolli Duke University, North Carolina | CEO Behavioral Integrity, Auditor Responses and Firm Outcomes | HB.40, Caulfield |
| Friday 9 March | Associate Professor Rencheng Wang University of Melbourne | Agency Conflicts and Shareholder Litigation: New Evidence from the Value of Tax Avoidance and Derivative Lawsuits | HB.40, Caulfield |
| Friday 23 February | Professor Kalle Kraus Monash University/Stockholm School of Economics | Accounting for violence: Heterogeneous interests, distinctions, and accounting | HB.40, Caulfield |
| Tuesday 13 February | Professor Peter Skaerbaek Copenhagen Business School | The versatile role of accounting in making programs stronger and weaker - The case of military (out-)sourcing strategies | HB.40, Caulfield |
| Friday 9 February | Associate Professor Neale O’Connor Monash University Malaysia | Exploring the Impact of Supplier Scorecard Performance on Customer Order Volume: Evidence from a Smartphone Manufacturing Supply Chain | HB.40, Caulfield |
| Tuesday 6 February | Professor Giuseppe Grossi Kristianstad University, Sweden | The impact of shifting logistics on performance measurement practices in hybrid universities | HB.40, Caulfield |
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 24 November | Professor Neil Marriott University of Winchester | TBA |
| Friday 17 November | Ms Nicola Beatson University of Otago | Confidence matters: a study of self-efficacy beliefs in accounting education |
| Friday 27 October | Professor Thomas Ahrens United Arab Emirates University | Crafting papers out of a qualitative accounting field |
| Friday 20 October | Rachael Lewis University of Technology Sydney | Cause and effect: How strategic performance measurement systems shape and reflect managers’ causal mental models |
| Friday 13 October | A/Professor David Wang DePaul University | The Effect of Competitive Actions on the Association between Momentum on Social Media and Offline Car Sales after Automobile Recalls |
| Friday 15 September | Dr Yunyang Zhang The University of Melbourne | Insider Trading and On-site Analysts Visits: Evidence from China |
| Friday 8 September | Professor Stephen Taylor University of Technology Sydney | The Quality of Non-GAAP earnings |
| Friday 1 September | Professor Yuval Millo The University of Warwick | Do Connections with Buy-Side Analysts Inform Sell-Side Analyst Research? |
| Friday 25 August | Professor Phil Shane | Sell-side analysts, relational expertise and positional struggles in the field of investment advice. |
| Friday 18 August | Professor Robert Faff The University of Queensland | 90 minute presentation in conjunction with Banking and Finance on Pitching Research |
| Friday 4 August | Dr Gladys Lee The University of Melbourne | Do Happy Auditors Perform Better Audits? Investigating the Association between Audit Firm Employee Satisfaction and Audit Quality |
| Friday 30 June | Professor Karla Johnstone University of Wisconsin Madison | A Natural Field Experiment Examining Audit Subordinates’ Knowledge and a Partner-Led Intervention in Fraud Brainstorming |
| Tuesday 20 June | Professor Jean Bedard Bentley University | Delivering the “Tough Message”: Moderators of Subordinate Auditors’ Reactions to Feedback |
| Friday 16 June | Professor Kalle Kraus | Accounting and Passionate Interests: The Case of a Swedish Football Club |
| Friday 30 June | Professor Karla Johnstone Wisconsin School of Business | A Natural Field Experiment Examining Audit Subordinates’ Knowledge and a Partner-Led Intervention in Fraud Brainstorming |
| Tuesday 20 June | Professor Jean Bedard Bentley University | Delivering the “Tough Message”: Moderators of Subordinate Auditors’ Reactions to Feedback |
| Friday 2 June | Professor Thomas Ahrens United Arab Emirates University | Inside the Big Short (Thomas Ahrens and Kursad Asdemir) |
| Friday 19 May | Associate Professor Maria Dyball The University of Sydney | Re-examining Auditors' relationships with clients |
| Friday 7 April (Clayton) | Dr Like Jiang University of Melbourne | Damage control: Earnings management in the face of product harm crises |
| Friday 24 March | Professor Steve Kaplan Arizona State University | Who really performs the audit? Examining the effects of supplemental voluntary disclosure of the use of other auditors on investors |
| Friday 17 March | Dr Andrew Jackson UNSW | Decomposing the Market, Industry, and Firm Components of Profitability: Implications for Forecasting. |
| Friday 10 March | Professor Efrim Boritz University of Waterloo | Are External Auditors Concerned about Cyber Incidents? Evidence from Audit Fees |
| Friday 17 February | Professor Mohan Venkatachalam The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | "Casting" a doubt: Informational role of analyst participation during earnings conference calls |