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Accounting

Goal

Our goal is to produce outstanding graduates and to ensure that all SMG students are skilled users of internal and external financial statements. Faculty members are committed to carrying out research in accounting and control that advances the field.

Research Interests

  • Disclosure regulation
  • Audit markets
  • Corporate Governance
  • International accounting
  • Management control in health care organizations
Faculty
Ana Albuquerque Assistant Professor
Patricia Doherty Lecturer
Moshe Hagigi Professor
Samuel Hanna Professor Emeritus
Wenli Huang Assistant Professor
Alison Kirby Jones Associate Professor
Krishnagopal Menon Professor
Philip Meyer Professor Emeritus
George Papadakis Assistant Professor
Nishi Sinha Assistant Professor
Kumar Sivakumar Chair and Associate Professor
Michael Smith Associate Professor
Ray Wilson Lecturer and Executive-in-Residence
Eng Wu Assistant Professor
David Young Professor Emeritus
Julie Lei Zhu Assistant Professor

2009 - 2010 Seminar Schedule
Paper titles will be announces a few days in advance of the seminar.

October 9, 2009
12:30pm - 2:00pm
SMG 222

David Maber, University of Southern California
"Before They Were Stars: An Empirical Investigation of the Characteristics, Performance, and Compensation of Sell-Side Equity Research Associates"

October 23, 2009
2:00pm - 3:30pm
SMG 228

Eddie Riedl, Harvard Business School
"Information Risk and Fair Value: An Examination of Equity Betas and Bid-Ask Spreads"

November 6, 2009
2:00pm - 3:30pm
SMG 228

Suraj Srinivasan, Harvard Business School
"Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan"

December 4, 2009
2:00pm - 3:30pm
SMG 228

Hai Lu, University of Toronto
TBA

December 15, 2009 (Tuesday)
11:00am - 12:30pm
SMG 312

Mary Ellen Carter, Boston College
TBA

February 5, 2010
TBA

Douglas Skinner (BARC Seminar), University of Chicago
TBA

March 19, 2010
TBA

Ewa Sletten, MIT
TBA

April 2, 2010
TBA

Ivy Zhang, University of Minnesota
TBA

April 23, 2010
TBA

Patricia Dechow, University of California, Berkeley
TBA

Organized by: Ana Albuquerque and Wenli Huang

Previous Seminar Schedules:

2008-2009 Seminar Schedule (doc)

2007-2008 Seminar Schedule (doc)

2006-2007 Seminar Schedule (doc)

Spring 2006 Seminar Schedule (pdf)

Fall 2005 Seminar Schedule (pdf)


For general inquiries, please contact:

Jeffrey Harrington
Program Coordinator
Phone: (617) 353-4613
Fax: (617) 353-6667

Alison Kirby Jones
Alison Kirby Jones
Associate Professor, Accounting
left-quoteAs the universal language of the business environment, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, accounting is a core discipline for every business student -- particularly in today’s world. Here at the School of Management our cross-functional curriculum provides students an opportunity to leverage their accounting knowledge and develop a fundamental understanding of the economics of business. right-quote
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