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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

2008 - 2009 Seminar Schedule
Paper titles will be announces a few days in advance of the seminar.
Date	Location & Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of Paper
September 12, 2008	SMG 240 1:00pm- 2:30pm	Roni Michaely	Cornell University, Accounting and Finance Joint Seminar	Why Firms Smooth Dividends: Empirical Evidence
November 21, 2008	SMG 228 2:00pm- 3:30pm	Michelle Hanlon	University of Michigan	The Effect of Financial Accounting on the Location, Reinvestment, and Repatriation Decisions of Multinational Companies
December 5, 2008	SMG 424 10:30am- 12:00pm	Raffi Indjejikian	University of Michigan, BARC Seminar	CFO Fiduciary Responsibilities and Annual Bonus Incentives
January 30, 2009	SMG 302 11:00am- 12:30pm	Karthik Ramana	Harvard Business School	Why do countries adopt International Financial Reporting Standards? (pdf)
February 27, 2009	SMG 220 10:30am- 11:00am	Ranjani Krishnan	Michigan State University	Institutional Drivers of Cost Shifting in Nonprofit Hospitals
April 3, 2009	SMG 302 11:00am- 12:30pm	Paul Healy	Harvard Business School	What Drives Sell-Side Analyst Compensation at High-Status Investment Banks?
April 24, 2009	SMG 306 11:00am- 12:30pm	Rodrigo Verdi	MIT	How Does Financial Reporting Quality Relate to Investment Efficiency?
May 1, 2009 (Cancelled)	TBA	Suraj Srinivasan	Harvard Business School	TBA

May 20, 2009 (Wednesday)	SMG 302 11:00am- 12:30pm	Robert Bushman	University of North Carolina	Price Discovery and Dissemination of Private Information by Loan Syndicate Participants

Organized by: Ana Albuquerque and Wenli Huang

Previous Seminar Schedules:

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

Associate Professor, Accounting

As 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.