Academic Year 2010/11
If you wish to present a paper to the group, or if you would like further information on the seminar please contact either
Zulfiqar.Shah@wbs.ac.uk
on 024765 28955 or Patricia.Mponela-Jaffu@wbs.ac.uk
on 02476 524301
'Given the number of seminars scheduled for this term, the standard length will be 90 minutes. We will continue to book a two-hour slot, however, to enable informal discussion with presenters after the seminar itself.'
Date: Wednesday 13th October 2010
Speaker: Rob Bryer and Keith Hoskin (WBS)
Title: The Art of Publishing in the Top Ranked Journals
Room: B2.13 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm
Date: Wednesday 20th October 2010
Speaker: Ann-Christine Frandsen (WBS)
Title: Listening to and Dancing Accounting
Room: B3.19 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm
Date: Wednesday 3rd November 2010
Speaker: Cathia Jenainati (Warwick)
Title: Writing the Warwick Way
Room: B2.13 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm
Date: Wednesday 10th November 2010 (CANCELLED)
Speaker: Mahmoud Ezzamel (Cardiff)
Title: Networks and Alliance: The Development of Accounting Regulations for Foreign Invested Firms in
China
Room: B2.13 (Scarman Road)
Time: 3.00pm - 4:30pm
Date: Wednesday 17th November 2010
Speaker: Elisabeth Dedman (WBS)
Title: "CEO to Chair - is it such a bad move?"
Speaker: Simona Scarparo
Title: Hospital Performance in Britain and France: Investigating the New Public Management Doctrines
Room: B2.13 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm
Date: Wednesday 24th November 2010
Speaker: Wei Jiang (WBS)
Title: The Impact of a Sustainability Report and Its Quality on Market Prices
Speaker: Zulfiqar Shah (WBS)
Title: Advertising and Earnings Prediction
Room: B2.13 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm
Date: Wednesday 1 st
December 2010
Speaker: Richard Taffler (WBS)
Title: It takes Two to Tango: Overbidding and Value Destruction in M & A Deals
Room: B3.19 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm
Date: Wednesday 19th January 2011
Speaker: Ane Tomayo (LSE)
Title: Equity Analysts and the Market
’s Assessment of Risk
Room: B2.13 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm

Date: Wednesday 26th January 2011
Speaker: Andrew Stark (MBS)
Title: 'Accruals Versus Cash Flow Effects in UK Stock Returns - Are They Independent of Other Effects?'
Room: B2.13 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm
Date: Wednesday 2nd February 2011
Speaker: Vivien Beattie (Glasgow)
Title: Factors Affection Auditing Quality
Room: B2.13 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm
Date: Wednesday 9th February 2010
Speaker: Asad Kausar (MBS)
Title: Why the Going-concern Anomaly
Room: B2.13 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm
Date: Wednesday 16th February 2011
Speaker: Joanne Horton (Exeter)
Title: “Social Networks: The Impact on Firms’ Information Environment and Corporate Communication”
(Horton, Serafeim and Tuna, 2010)
Room: B2.13 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm
Date: Wednesday 2nd March 2011
Speaker: Mark Clatworthy (Cardiff)
Title: “Timeless of Financial Reporting in Private Companies”
Room: B2.13 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm
Date: Thursday 5 th
May 2011
Speaker: Lisa Weaver
Title: IFRS Workshop
Room: B1.19 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm
Date: Wednesday 9 th
March 2011
Speaker: Christian Stadler (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Title: Conservatism and Pensions: Why Accounting Matters ”
Room: B2.13 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm
Date: Thursday 12 th
May 2011
Speaker: Meir Statman (Santa Clara Uni – USA)
Title: What is Behavioral Finance?
Room: B1.19 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm
Date: Wednesday 25 th
May 2011
Speaker: April Klein (NYU)
Title: Shareholder Class Action Suits and Bond Market
Room: B3.20 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm
Date: Wednesday 1 st
June 2011
Speaker: Sven Modell (MBS)
Title: Across the Great Divide: Assessing Paradigm-Bridging Approaches in Accounting Research
Room: B2.13 (Scarman Road)
Time: 2.00pm - 4:00pm

We hold seminars that meet throughout the academic year. If you wish to present a paper(s) to the group or if you would like further information on the semianrs please contact us on 02476 524301.
Given the number of seminars scheduled for this term, the standard length will be 90 minutes.
We will continue to book a two-hour slot to enable informal discussion(s) with the presenters after the seminar itself.
Refreshments are provided.
WEEK DATE
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SPEAKER/EVENT TITLE ROOM TIME ROOM
BOOKED
2pm – 4pm 18 JAN
25 JAN
1 FEB
8 FEB
17 FEB
22 FEB
ASAD KAUSAR NTU
Singapore
ILIAS BASIOUDIS Aston
University
NORIAKI YAMAJI Kwansei
Gakuin University
ART KRAFT CASS Business
School
STEPHEN ZEFF RICE
University
CHRIS CHAPMAN
IMPERIAL London
TBC
Going-concern opinions and asset values.
Non-audit fees, auditor tenure, and auditor independence.
The value relevance of goodwill and goodwill amortization: evidence from listed
Japanese companies.
CANCELLED
Transparency as antiecedent to accuracy and efficency: evidence from the field.
TBC
29 FEB TBC
7 MARCH MARK BRADSHAW
BOSTON College USA
14 MARCH GILAD LIVNE CASS
Business School
28 MARCH STEVE YOUNG Lancaster
School of Management
TBC
TBC
B2.13
B3.19
B3.19
B3.19
B2.13
B3.19
B3.19
B3.19 tbc
2pm – 4pm
2pm – 4pm
2pm – 4pm
B0.09/B1.16 2pm – 4pm
2pm – 4pm
2pm – 4pm
2pm – 4pm
2pm – 4pm
2pm – 4pm
Every Tuesday afternoon we hold AMORe meetings (Accounting, Markets and Organisations Research) to discuss internal group active research.