Hannan appointed editor of top accounting journal

Hannan appointed editor of top accounting journal

Professor of Accounting R. Lynn Hannan has been named to a three-year term as an editor of Contemporary Accounting Research. The appointment, which began May 1, is a prestigious one. Published since 1984 by the Canadian Academic Accounting Association, CAR is...
Hannan appointed editor of top accounting journal

Selected Faculty Presentations, Honors, Etc.

Jasmijn Bol, above right, gave a keynote address at the XIV Congresso USP de Controladoria e Contabilidade, XI Congresso USP de Iniciação Científica em Contabilidade at the University of São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil. Bol’s talk was titled “Innovative Research:...
Selected Faculty Presentations, Honors, Etc.

Selected Faculty Presentations, Honors, Etc.

Michael Burke, Lawrence Martin Chair of Business, presented two papers at recent academic conferences. In April 2013, he presented “Qualitative investigation of context: Staff rides for research and practice,” a master tutorial, at the 28th Annual Conference of the...
Selected Faculty Research

Selected Faculty Research

Jasmijn Bol’s paper “Managers’ Discretionary Adjustments: The Influence of Uncontrollable Events and Compensation Interdependence” has been accepted for publication in Contemporary Accounting Research. The paper was co-authored with Gary Hecht of the University of...
Perspective: It’s Only Weird If It Doesn’t Work

Perspective: It’s Only Weird If It Doesn’t Work

There are many opportunities in everyday life to associate consumer products with success or failure. For example, imagine a situation in which a Saints fan is at the Superdome, watching the team lose badly. During halftime, he purchases and consumes a Dr. Pepper....
Selected Faculty Research

Selected Faculty Research

Robert S. Hansen’s paper “Are Analysts’ Forecasts Informative to the General Public?” has been accepted for publication in Management Science. Hansen, Francis Martin Chair in Business and professor of finance, co-authored the paper with Vadim Balashov, adjunct...