Spring 2010

Spring 2010 Rutgers Accounting Research Forum

Date	Time/Location	Event/Presenter
January 22		No seminar
January 29	10:30 - 12:00 PM One Washington Park Room 921, Newark Broadcast to Janice Levin Room 106, New Brunswick	Sudipta Basu, Temple University "Evolved Versus Designed Standards"
February 5	10:30 - 12:00 PM One Washington Park Room 921, Newark NO BROADCAST TO NB	Min Cao, Carnegie Mellon University "Internal Funds, Moral Hazard, and Post-Financing Stock Underperformance"
February 12	10:30 - 12:00 PM Janice Levin Building 106, New Brunswick Broadcast to One Washington Park Room 921	Erica Harris, Temple University
February 19	10:30 - 12:00 PM One Washington Park Room 921, Newark Broadcast to Janice Levin Room 107B, New Brunswick	Li Zhang, London Business School "The Effect of Ex-Ante Management Forecast Accuracy on Post- Earnings Announcement Drift"
February 22		Seminar Cancelled
February 26		Seminar Cancelled
March 3	10:30 - 12:00 PM One Washington Park Room 342, Newark Broadcast to Janice Levin Room 107B	Alina Lerman, NYU "Individual Investors' Attention to Accounting Information: Message Board Discussions"
March 5		Faculty Retreat
March 11	10:30 - 12:00 PM One Washington Park Room 921, Newark Broadcast to Janice Levin Room 107B	Kwang Lee, University of California "Purchase Obligations, Earnings Persistence and Stock Returns"
March 19		Spring Break
March 26	10:30 - 12:00 PM One Washington Park Room 921, Newark Broadcast to Janice Levin Room 107-B, New Brunswick	Helen L. Brown-Liburd "Effects of Earnings Forecasts and Heightened Professional Skepticism on the Outcomes of Client-Auditor Negotiation"
April 1	10:30 - 12:00 PM One Washington Park Room 921, Newark Broadcast to Janice Levin Room 106, New Brunswick	Lucy Chen, Arizona State University "Trading Volume Reaction to the Earnings Reconciliation from IFRS to U.S. GAAP: Further Evidence"
April 2	10:30 - 12:00 PM One Washington Park Room 921, Newark Broadcast to Janice Levin Room 107-B, New Brunswick	Mustafa Ciftci, Binghamton University "Value-Relevance of Accounting Information for Intangible-Intensive Industries and the Impact of Scale Factor"
April 9		NO SEMINAR
April 16	10:30 - 12:00 PM One Washington Park Room 921, Newark Broadcast to Janice Levin Room 107-B, New Brunswick	Moses Pava, Yeshiva University "Teaching Accounting Ethics: A Thought Experiment"
April 23	10:30 - 12:00 PM One Washington Park Room 921, Newark Broadcast to Janice Levin Room 107-B, New Brunswick	Mary Brooke Billings, NYU "The Option Market's Anticipation of Information Content in Earnings Annoucements"
April 30	10:30 - 12:00 PM One Washington Park Room 921, Newark Broadcast to Janice Levin Room 107-B, New Brunswick	John E. Core, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania "Is There a Case For Regulating Executive Pay In The Financial Services Industry?" Background Reading: "Is CEO Pay Too High and Are Incentives Too Low? A Wealth-Based Contracting Framework"
May 14		Faculty Meeting
May 26	1:00-2:30 PM Janice Levin Building 106, New Brunswick Broadcast to One Washington Park Room 921, Newark	Kian Guan Lim, Singapore "Climate Risk Management: the Case of Tropical Cyclones"

*Seminars are held from 10:30 am - 12:00 pm unless otherwise noted.

For seminar schedule and updates please contact Barbara Jensen at bjensen@andromeda.rutgers.edu or Jackie Adams at jackiea@andromeda.rutgers.edu.