Workshop Series

Accounting workshops are held on Friday afternoons from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.in SOM 2.714. You may download papers or pick up a hard copy from Gail Thompson in SOM 4.219. For questions about the schedule, you may contact Di Dai at (972) 888-6337 or zdai@utdallas.edu.

UT Dallas faculty are also invited to attend SMU's accounting and finance workshops. Information can be found at: SMU workshops.

Unless otherwise noted, the papers presented are preliminary drafts. Please do not quote without the author's permission.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Topic
9/11/08	Jefff Callen	University of Toronto	An Analytical and Empirical Measure of the Degree of Conservatism
9/19/08	Shiva Rajgopal	Univ of Washington	Geography and the Incidence of Financial Misreporting
10/17/08	April Klein	NYU	The Implication of Hedge Fund Activisim on the Target Fund's Existing Bondholders
10/24/08	Wayne Thomas	Univ. of Oklahoma	Capital Market Consequences of Conference Presentations
10/31/08	Shyam Sunder	Yale University	Are Regulatory Mandate and Independence Neccessary for Audit Quality?
11/7/08	William Baber	George Washington University	Investor Perceptions of the Earnings Quality Consequences of Hiring an Affiliated Auditor