Research Grants, Publications, and Presentations
Davis, J. 2011. Insights from audit analogs. Accounting, Organizations and Society 36 (4–5): 313–317.
Hoitash, R., U. Hoitash, and K. Johnstone. 2011. Internal control material weaknesses and CFO compensation. Contemporary Accounting Research (forthcoming).
Hammersley, J., K. Johnstone, and K. Kadous. 2011. How do audit seniors respond to heightened fraud risk? Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory (forthcoming).
Ettredge, M., K. Johnstone, M. Stone, and Q. Wang. 2011. The effects of firm size, corporate governance quality, and bad news on disclosure compliance. Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming).
Landsittel, D., and L. Rittenberg. 2010. COSO: Working with the academic community. Accounting Horizons 24 (September): 455–469.
Liao, Q. (PhD student), T. Sellhorn, and H. Skaife. 2011. The cross-country comparability of IFRS earnings and book values: Evidence from France and Germany. Presented at the first JIAR conference held in Xiamen, China, June 15–17.
*Warfield, T., V. Dickinson (PhD ’06), and P. Kimmel (PhD ‘89). 2011. The accounting and market consequences of accelerated share repurchases. Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming).
Jon Davis and Heather Pesch (PhD ‘11) received a grant to fund research examining the dynamics of fraud in organizations from the AICPA Center for Audit Quality.
Ella Mae Matsumura, with Rachna Prakash from Georgetown University and Sandra Vera-Muñoz from Notre Dame, received a grant to fund a project on Voluntary Disclosures and the Firm-Value Effects of Carbon Emissions from KPMG’s Global Valuation Institute.
*indicates support provided by the Arthur Andersen Center for Financial Reporting and Control
Other Faculty News
Ella Mae Matsumura, director of the Robert Beyer Center for Managerial Accounting and Control, and Terry Warfield, director of the Arthur Andersen Center for Financial Reporting and Control, were both promoted to Full Professor by the Wisconsin School of Business in the spring of 2011.
Karla Johnstone is serving as Associate Editor for Accounting Horizons and is the American Accounting Association Auditing Section’s newly elected treasurer. She also co-authored a textbook that was published this year: Auditing: Concepts for a Changing Environment, Eighth Edition. South-Western College Publishing, Cincinnati, OH.
Ella Mae Matsumura co-authored a textbook that was published this year: Management Accounting: Information for Decision Making and Strategy Execution, Sixth Edition. Prentice-Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ.
Jon Davis, Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor of Accounting, is serving his second term as chairman of the AACSB Accounting Accreditation Committee, which is responsible for managing the accreditation of accounting programs around the world. He is also serving a term as vice-president of the American Taxation Association. In addition, he co-authored a textbook that was published this year: West's Federal Taxation: Corporations, Partnerships, Estates and Trusts, 2012 Edition. South-Western College Publishing, Cincinnati, OH.
Mark Covaleski, Robert Beyer Professor of Managerial Accounting and Control, served as co-editor of a special issue of the Behavioral Research in Accounting journal. The theme of the issue was Organizational Perspectives on the Uses of Accounting Information.
Hollis Skaife, David J. Lesar Professor in Business, is serving a term as associate dean for research and doctoral programs for the School of Business. She was appointed to the Deloitte CFO Program Fellows and Scholars Initiative in 2011. This program pairs Deloitte fellows with scholars to research and publish cutting edge CFO-relevant thoughtware. As part of her appointment, she will examine whether the use of IFRS by subsidiaries affects audit risk and the quality of consolidated IFRS financial statements. She was also re-appointed to serve on the IFRS Advisory Council.
Terry Warfield, Robert and Monica Beyer Professor of Accounting, served as the chairman of the FASB–IASB Issues Conference. In this role, he co-led the planning for the meeting with FASB board member Thomas Linsmeier (MBA ’80, PhD ‘85). This annual conference is one of the major interactions between academia and accounting policymakers. The two-day conference is attended by financial reporting researchers, members of the FASB and IASB and their staffs, and staff from the SEC. The committee decides on conference topics, identifies and invites panelists, and develops discussion materials.