RSM McGladrey Institute of Accounting Education and Research

PricewaterhouseCoopers Accounting Research Workshop

Fall 2009 Schedule


Seminars are 1:30-3:00 p.m. in S107 PBB unless otherwise noted. Copies of the papers are available in W252 PBB.

DATE SPEAKER
September 11 OPEN
September 18 David Burgstahler
University of Washington
"Earnings Precision and the Relations Between Earnings and Returns"
October 9 Rong Zhao
The University of Iowa
"A Catering Theory of Revenue Benchmark Beating Behavior"
October 12
(C20 PC, 6:00-8:00 p.m.)		 National Speaker Series
Jay Hansen
National Director of Accounting, McGladrey & Pullen LLP
"Mark to Market: Fantasy or Reality?"
October 16 Steve Stubben
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"The Role of Target Firms' Accounting Information in Acquisitions"
October 23 Lillian Mills
The University of Texas at Austin
"Did FIN 48 Arrest the Trend in Multistate Tax Avoidance?"
October 30 Feng Li
The University of Michigan
"The Information Content of Forward-looking Statements in Corporate Filings—A Naive Bayesian Machine Learning Approach"
November 6 Sarah Zechman
The University of Chicago - Booth
November 13 Jayanthi Sunder
Northwestern University
November 20 OPEN
November 30
(W401 PBB, 1:30-3:00 p.m.)		 Andrew Acito
The University of Iowa
December 4 Kristi Towry
Emory University
December 7
(C10 PC, 1:30-3:00 p.m.)		 Xiaoli Tian
The University of Iowa
December 11 Matthew R. Glendening
The University of Iowa