LSU Accounting Regional Research Workshop

2025

Douglas J. Skinner, Sidney Davidson Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Former Editor of Journal of Accounting Research and the Journal of Accounting and Economics. Leading expert in corporate disclosure, financial reporting, and payout policies.

Topic: Do Actions Speak Louder than Words? The Relation Between Payouts and Guidance Since 2000.

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2023

Jeffrey Hales, Bake Chair in Global Sustainability Leadership, Charles T. Zlatkovich Centennial Professor of Accounting, University of Texas at Austin, Executive Director of the Global Sustainability Leadership Institute

Topic: Mere Puffery of Credible Disclosure? The Real Effects of Adopting Voluntary ESG Disclosure Standards

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2022

Xiumin Martin, Professor of Accounting
Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis

Topic: What if Borrowers Were Informed About Credit Reporting? Two Randomized Field Experiments

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2019

Bharat Sarath, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance and Professor of Accounting
Rutgers University

Topic: The API and the Design of Experiments
When do managers tell the truth about Bargain Purchase Gains

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2018

Jeffrey Hoopes, Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Topic: Strategic Subsidiary Disclosure

Ted Christensen, Director and Terry Distinguished Chair of Business
J. M. Tull School of Accounting, University of Georgia

Topic: Non-GAAP Earnings for Contracting and Financial Disclosure

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2017

Mark DeFond, A.N. Mosich Chair in Accounting, Senior Editor of The Accounting Review
University of Southern California

Topic: Some Controversies in Auditing Literature

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2016

Richard Hatfield, Ernst and Young Professor of Accounting
University of Alabama

Topic: Staff Auditors’ Proclivity for Computer Mediated Communication with Clients and its Effect on Skeptical Behavior

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2015

Dan Dhaliwal
Accounting Department Head, Frances McClelland Endowed Chair
Former editor of TAR
Editorial board member of JAR
University of Arizona

Topic: Accrual Accounting and Access to External Funds: Evidence from Small Businesses

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2014

S.P. Kothari
Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance
Head of the Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Global head of equity research for Barclays Global Investors
Editor of JAE

Topic: The Effect of Borrower Transparency on Bank Competition, Risk-taking and Bank Fragility

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2013

Zoe-Vonna Palmrose
Kermit O. Hanson Professor in Business Administration
Deputy Chief Accountant of the SEC
Editorial board member of TAR and AJPT
University of Washington

Topic: PCAOB Audit Regulation a Decade After SOX: Where it Stands and What the Future holds

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2012

Terry Shevlin
Paul Pigott/Paccar Professor of Business Administration, former editor of TAR, JATA
University of Washington

Topic: Does Voluntary Adoption of Clawback Provision Improve Financial Reporting?

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2011

Peter Easton
Notre Dame Alumni Professor of Accountancy and Academic Director, Center for Accounting Research and Education
Editor of RAST, Associate Editor: JAR, CAR, JAE, TAR
Notre Dame University

Topic: Dissecting Earnings Recognition Timeliness

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2010

Charles Lee
Joseph McDonald Professor of Accounting
Managing Director at Barclays Global Investors (BGI)
Associate editor of Management Science, RAST, JAE, and JF
Stanford University

Topic: Evaluating Implied Cost of Capital Estimates

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2009

Mary Barth
J. E. Horngren Professor of Accounting, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Member of the IASB
Editor of MS, and associate editor of TAR
Stanford University

Topic: Cost of Capital and Earnings Transparency

Michael and Linda Bamber
Michael – Harold M. Heckman Chair of Public Accounting, consulting editor of TAR
Linda – Tull Professor of Accounting, editor of TAR
University of Georgia

Topic: Publishing Your Research

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2008

Katherine Schipper
Thomas F. Keller Professor of Accounting, former editor of JAR, and former member of the FASB
Duke University

Topic: Direct and Mediated Associations Among Earnings Quality, Information Asymmetry and the Cost of Equity