This record of past accounting workshops is provided for archival purposes only. To access the current accounting workshop schedule, please follow this link: Current Accounting Workshop Schedule

Accounting Seminar Schedule for 2006/2007:

Seminars are held in Maguire 356 from 2:00 to 3:20 pm on Fridays unless otherwise noted below.
Organizer: Doug Hanna (hanna@smu.edu)

Date	Presenter	Topic
Aug 25 2006	OPEN	TBA
Sep 01 2006	OPEN	TBA
Sep 08 2006	OPEN	TBA
Sep 15 2006	Suraj Srinivasan Chicago	The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Flow of International Cross-listings JAAF Conference
Sep 22 2006	Mary Stanford TCU	Do Broad-Based Option Compensation Plans Improve Future Firm Performance for Technology and Non-Technology Firms? RAST Conference
Sep 29 2006	Eddie Riedl Harvard	Market Reaction to Events Surrounding the Adoption of IFRS in Europe
Oct 06 2006	Ramgopal Venkataraman Minnesota	Goodwill Impairment Loss: Causes and Consequences JAE Conference
Oct 13 2006	No workshop	Exam week
Oct 20 2006	OPEN	TBA
Oct 27 2006	Daniel Beneish Indiana	POSTPONED
Nov 03 2006	Shannon Anderson Rice	Understanding Cost Management: What Can We Learn from the Evidence on "Sticky Costs?" (Paper withheld at presenter's request - please pick up hard copy) CAR Conference
Nov 10 2006	Gordon Richardson Toronto	The Existence of and Explanations for the Private Company Discount NOTE TIME CHANGE TO 10:30 AM
Nov 17 2006	Mark Bradshaw Harvard	POSTPONED TO 30 MARCH 2007
Nov 24 2006	No workshop	Thanksgiving
Dec 01 2006	Frank Zhang Yale	Overreaction to Intra-industry Information Transfers?
Dec 08 2006	Sudipta Basu Emory	Emergent Recordkeeping Changes the Course of Economic History Also see his paper with Greg Waymire, "Recordkeeping and Human Evolution," Accounting Horizons, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 201-229. Note Room Change to Maguire 356
Dec 15 2006	No workshop	Break week
Dec 22 2006	No workshop	Break week
Dec 29 2006	No workshop	Break week
Jan 05 2007	Igor Vaysman INSEAD	Optimal Incentives to Abandon Investments
Jan 12 2007	OPEN	TBA
Jan 19 2007	Recruiting	TBA
Jan 26 2007	Recruiting	TBA
Feb 02 2007	Steve Crawford Chicago	What's Driving Cross-listing Effects? An Analysis of Analyst Coverage Surrounding International Cross Listings
Feb 05 2007	Sudarshan Jayaraman UNC	NOTE SPECIAL MONDAY WORKSHOP AT 2:00 PM IN CROW 278 Earnings volatility, cash flow volatility and informed trading
Feb 09 2007	Hollis Ashbaugh-Skaife Wisconsin - Madison	Can Regulation Enhance the Monitoring Role of Audits? Evidence from the German Market
Feb 16 2007	Sam Lee USC	CEO Reputation: Who Benefits - The Firm or the CEO?
Feb 19 2007	Shamin Mashruwala Washington	NOTE SPECIAL MONDAY WORKSHOP AT 2:00 PM IN CROW 279 The Impact of Accounting Smoothing on Asset Allocation in Corporate Pension Plans: Evidence from the U.K.
Feb 23 2007	Adam Koch Carnegie Mellon	Once Bitten, Twice Shy: The Relation Between Outcomes of Earnings Guidance and the Provision of Subsequent Guidance
Mar 02 2007	Yu Gao Chicago	NOTE SPECIAL WORKSHOP ROOM, CROW 278 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Choice of Bond Market by Foreign Firms
Mar 09 2007	Zining Li Minnesota	Accounting Conservatism and Managers' Forecasting Behavior
Mar 16 2007	Jeff Yu Ohio State	NOTE SPECIAL WORKSHOP TIME AT 10:30 AM Loan Spreads and Unexpected Earnings: Do Banks Know What Analysts Don't Know?
Mar 23 2007	James Myers Texas A&M	POSTPONED TO 27 APRIL 2007
Mar 30 2007	Mark Bradshaw Harvard	Do Sell-Side Analysts Exhibit Differential Target Price Forecasting Ability?
Apr 06 2007	OPEN	TBA
Apr 13 2007	OPEN	TBA
Apr 20 2007	OPEN	TBA
Apr 27 2007	James Myers Texas A&M	NOTE SPECIAL WORKSHOP ROOM, MAGUIRE 354 Are Dividends Informative About Future Earnings?
May 04 2007	No workshop	Exam week
May 11 2007	If required	TBA JAR Conference
May 18 2007	If required	TBA
May 25 2007	If required	TBA

• 2005/2006 Accounting Workshop Schedule
• 2004/2005 Accounting Workshop Schedule
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