2011 Midwest Summer Research Conference

June 3-4, 2011

 

The 2011 Midwest Summer Research Conference will be hosted by the
University of Notre Dame Department of Accountancy
on Friday, June 3, 2011 and Saturday, June 4, 2011
at the Mendoza College of Business.

Schools presenting this year are: Iowa, Minnesota, Notre Dame and Ohio State.

Conference information, including links to the papers are in the agenda, below.

Agenda

Friday, June 3, 2011
12:30-1:45 pm Lunch Executive Education Dining Room, Mendoza College of Business
2:00-3:30 pm When a Loss is More Than Just a Loss: The Market Pricing of Other-Than-Temporary Impairments
Brad Badertscher, University of Notre Dame
Mendoza College of Business Room 161
3:30-4:00 pm Break  
4:00-5:30 pm Detection of Channel Stuffing
Helen Zhang, Ohio State University
Mendoza College of Business Room 161
5:45 pm Walk to Morris Inn for Dinner
6:00-8:00 pm Dinner Donor's Room, Morris Inn
Saturday, June 4, 2011
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast Executive Education Dining Room, Mendoza College of Business
9:00-10:30 am Principles-Based Standards and the Informativeness of Earnings
Rick Mergenthaler, University of Iowa
Mendoza College of Business Room 161
10:30-11:00 am Break  
11:00-12:30 pm Accounting Integration and Comparability:
Evidence from Relative Performance Evaluation around IFRS Adoption

Ivy Zhang, University of Minnesota
Mendoza College of Business Room 161
12:30 pm Boxed Lunch Available Outside Room 161

Accounting faculty and Ph.D. students from the following schools are invited.

You may direct questions to any of the faculty coordinators listed below.

School Coordinating Faculty Member
Kelley Bloomington Leslie Hodder
Kelley Indianapolis John Hassell
Notre Dame Ram Ramanan
Purdue Mark Bagnoli, Susan Watts
Iowa Bruce Johnson, Ramji Balakrishnan
Minnesota Pervin Shroff
Penn State Karl Muller
Michigan State Ranjani Krishnan, Chris Hogan
Ohio State Anne Beatty