Seminars
All seminars (unless otherwise advised) are held between 11.00am and 12.30pm in Meeting Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building H69, Cnr Rose and Codrington Streets, Darlington Campus.
Convenor: Chris Poullaos
| 26th Jun 2013 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Jim Rooney, |
Affiliation: |
The University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Room 214/215, H69 - Economics and Business Building |
Title: |
Embodied classification and the regulation of migrant worker health: Filipino workers at the Hamakua Mill Company, 1921-39 |
| 12th Jun 2013 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Ronita Ram, |
Affiliation: |
The University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Room 214/215, H69 - Economics and Business Building |
Title: |
Exploring the role of staff in the IASB???s standard setting process: The case of IFRS for SMEs |
| 29th May 2013 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Ravi Seethamraju, |
Affiliation: |
The University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Room 214/215, H69 - Economics and Business Building |
Title: |
Antecedents and challenges in the adoption & use of management accounting techniques in enterprise systems environments |
| 15th May 2013 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Abdul Razeed, |
Affiliation: |
The University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Room 214/215, H69 - Economics and Business Building |
Title: |
Longitudinal analysis of US resource company environmental disclosure practices - A changing landscape |
| 8th May 2013 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Anna Azriati Binti Che Azm, |
Affiliation: |
University of Malaya |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre School Building Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
Related party transactions and government-linked companies |
| 1st May 2013 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Brad Potter, |
Affiliation: |
The University of Melbourne |
Venue: |
New Law Annexe SR 344 |
Title: |
Is the reporting entity concept an appropriate basis for differential reporting in Australia? |
| 24th Apr 2013 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Phillip Schreck, |
Affiliation: |
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre School Building Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
Revealing or substituting for corporate social performance? ??? distinguishing functions of CSR disclosures |
| 17th Apr 2013 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Maria Serena Chiucchi, |
Affiliation: |
Polytechnic University of the Marche, Italy |
Venue: |
New Law Annexe SR 342 |
Title: |
Un-locking intellectual capital |
| 20th Mar 2013 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Elisabetta Barone, |
Affiliation: |
King's College London |
Venue: |
Room 214/215 Economics and Business Building |
Title: |
Effects of IFRS adoption |
| 6th Mar 2013 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Paul Blayney, |
Affiliation: |
The University of Sydney |
Venue: |
New Law Seminar 102 |
Title: |
Complexity - the other side of the expertise coin |
| 28th Nov 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Colin Clubb, |
Affiliation: |
King's College, London |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
Payout Policy Relevance and Accounting Based Valuation |
| 14th Nov 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Christian De Cock, |
Affiliation: |
Essex Business School, University of Essex |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
Imagining finance capital |
| 31st Oct 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Bino Catasus, |
Affiliation: |
School of Business, Stockholm University |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
Behind open doors: Auditors face-work at the annual general meeting |
| 17th Oct 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Timothy Wang, |
Affiliation: |
The University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
A linguistic evaluation of accounting representation |
| 19th Sep 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Matthew Egan, |
Affiliation: |
The University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
Responses to water scarcity in the absence of economic incentive |
| 5th Sep 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Bruce Gurd, |
Affiliation: |
University of South Australia |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
Management control systems in organizations in far from equilibrium conditions |
| 29th Aug 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Michael Bromwich, |
Affiliation: |
The London School of Economics |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 7 |
Title: |
A comparison of historical cost and fair value accounting systems: General and some regulatory concerns. |
| 22nd Aug 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Geoff Frost; Cornelia Beck, |
Affiliation: |
The University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
Material legitimacy: Blending organisational and stakeholder concerns through management action and reporting |
| 8th Aug 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Joshua Ronen, |
Affiliation: |
New York University |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
Unfair "fair value" in an opaque credit default swap market: How marking-to-market may have pushed the international credit crunch |
| 26th Jul 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Danny Chow, |
Affiliation: |
Durham University UK |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 7 |
Title: |
The privileged status of new public management reforms: The decontextualization of UK whole of government accounts |
| 20th Jun 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Anna Young, |
Affiliation: |
The University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
What the Models Cannot See: Integrating Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance Information in Investment |
| 30th May 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Paul Spee, |
Affiliation: |
The University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
The Relation of Key Performance Indicators and Strategy Development Revisited |
| 16th May 2012 - 11:00 pm | |
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Speaker: |
Ken McPhail, |
Affiliation: |
La Trobe University |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
The Geography of Professionalism: An Introduction to the Specialization of Professional Accounting Practice in the City |
| 2nd May 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Max Baker; Stefan Schaltegger, |
Affiliation: |
The University of Sydney; Leuphana University |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
Pragmatism and Sustainability |
| 18th Apr 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Stephen Walker, |
Affiliation: |
Cardiff Business School, UK |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
Accounting and Rehabilitation |
| 28th Mar 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Chris Nobes, |
Affiliation: |
University of London, UK |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
Improving the Measurement of Book-Tax Conformity |
| 14th Mar 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Doris Merkl-Davies, |
Affiliation: |
Bangor University, UK |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
Text Analysis Methodologies in Corporate Narrative Reporting Research |
| 7th Mar 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Jan Bebbington, |
Affiliation: |
University of St Andrews Scotland |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
Accounting For Sustainable Development: (Re)Constructing the Agenda |
| 29th Feb 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Indra Abeysekera, |
Affiliation: |
University of Wollongong |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
The effect of disclosure transparency on intangibles and analysts' stock pricing forecasts |
| 15th Feb 2012 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Federica Farneti, |
Affiliation: |
University of Bologna, Italy |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre, School Building, Meeting Room 6 |
Title: |
Sustainability Reporting in Italian Local Governments |
| 7th Dec 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Sven Modell, |
Affiliation: |
University of Manchester, UK |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
The economic sociology of responsibility accounting: A field study in a Chinese state-owned enterprise |
| 30th Nov 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Stefan Schaltegger, |
Affiliation: |
Leuphana University of Luneburg, Germany |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
Sustainability accounting without accountants. Results of an explorative investigation of large German companies |
| 16th Nov 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Matti Skoog, |
Affiliation: |
Stockholm University, Sweden |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
Designing a semi-confusing management control system package -sensebreaking in the Swedish armed forces |
| 19th Oct 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Charl de Villiers John Dumay, |
Affiliation: |
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand The University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
Publishing in a top tier accounting journal: A critical perspective |
| 5th Oct 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Tami Dinh Thi, |
Affiliation: |
The University of New South Wales |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
Conservatism implications for the properties of accounting information: The case of R&D Accounting |
| 21st Sep 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Linda English, |
Affiliation: |
The University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
The impact of an independent inspector in improving governance and accountability in prisons: Pressure points and conflict in the pursuit of an ideal of performance |
| 7th Sep 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Vassili Joannides, |
Affiliation: |
Grenoble Ecole de Management, France |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
Rhetoric and the fate of budgeting |
| 24th Aug 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Giuseppe Grossi, |
Affiliation: |
University of Siena, Italy |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
Defining the reporting entity in the consolidation of public and private entities: Accountability lost? The case of IPSASs |
| 3rd Aug 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Chris van Staden, |
Affiliation: |
University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
The impact of social influence pressure on the ethical reasoning of professional accountants: Australian and New Zealand evidence |
| 15th Jul 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Elisabeth Dedman, |
Affiliation: |
Warwick Business School, UK |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
The impact of voluntary audit on credit ratings: Evidence from UK private firms |
| 29th Jun 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Professor Stewart Jones, |
Affiliation: |
University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
Analyst Recommendations and Corporate Bankruptcies: An International Study |
| 15th Jun 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Sharron O'Neill, |
Affiliation: |
University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
The GRI's Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: Promoting Accountability to Stakeholders or Institutionalising Corporate Social 'P.R.'? |
| 1st Jun 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Ravi Seethamraju, |
Affiliation: |
University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
ABC and Enterprise Systems |
| 18th May 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Associate Professor Ray McNamara; Assistant Professor Simone Kelly, |
Affiliation: |
Bond University |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
Inventory Valuation, Company Value and the Uncertainty Principle |
| 4th May 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Associate Professor Eric Fay, |
Affiliation: |
Emlyon Business School, France |
Venue: |
Merewether Room 397 (H04) |
Title: |
Living with Numbers |
| 20th Apr 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Mr John Zhang, |
Affiliation: |
Australian National University |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre Boardroom |
Title: |
Securitization Accounting |
| 6th Apr 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Mr. Paul Blayney, |
Affiliation: |
University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Darlington Centre Boardroom |
Title: |
Complexity - The Other Side of the Expertise Coin: A Three way Interaction Analysis of Task Complexity in Learning |
| 23rd Mar 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Professor Chris Nobes, |
Affiliation: |
University of London, UK |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
Firm Size and National Profiles of IFRS Policy Choice |
| 9th Mar 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Professor Alfred Wagenhofer, |
Affiliation: |
University of Graz, Austria |
Venue: |
New Law School Annexe SR 340 |
Title: |
Earnings Quality Metrics and what they Measure |
| 23rd Feb 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Professor Burkhard Pedell, |
Affiliation: |
University of Stuttgart, Germany |
Venue: |
Merewether Room 398 (H04) |
Title: |
Consistent Asset Valuation for Purposes of Rate Regulation |
| 16th Feb 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Professor Tom Hadden, |
Affiliation: |
Queens University, Belfast |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
Accountable Governance in Corporate Groups; The Interrelationship of Law and Accounting |
| 9th Feb 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Professor Dick Edwards, |
Affiliation: |
Cardiff Business School, UK |
Venue: |
Economics & Business 214/215 (H69) |
Title: |
Writing Masters and Accountants in England - a Study of Occupation, Status and Ambition in the Early Modern Period |
| 2nd Feb 2011 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Professor Jean Shaoul, |
Affiliation: |
University of Manchester, UK |
Venue: |
Merewether Room 397 H04 |
Title: |
Building Schools for the Future: The Accountability Challenges of Joint Ventures Between the Public and Private Sectors |
| 24th Nov 2010 - 12:30 am | |
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Speaker: |
Joshua Ronen, |
Affiliation: |
New York University |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
Financial Statements Insurance |
| 10th Nov 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Masafumi Fujino, |
Affiliation: |
Nihon University, Japan |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
Management control systems and strategising: A case study of a Japanese manufacturing company |
| 20th Oct 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Kerry Jacobs, |
Affiliation: |
Australian National University |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
Making Sense of Social Practice: Theoretical Pluralism in Public Sector Accounting Research |
| 22nd Sep 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Richard Morris, |
Affiliation: |
University of New South Wales |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
Information Asymmetry of Fair Value Accounting and Loan Loss Provisions during the Global Financial Crisis |
| 8th Sep 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Peter Bruno Vassallo, |
Affiliation: |
University of Melbourne |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
Are capital expenditures, R&D, advertisements and acquisitions positive NPV? |
| 25th Aug 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Francesco Capalbo, |
Affiliation: |
Second University of Naples |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
State and Local Government Owned Enterprises in Italy. Their growth, misuse and the inappropriateness of their reporting. |
| 11th Aug 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Chang Loh, |
Affiliation: |
Discipline of Accounting University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
The role for management controls at different stages of project management. Some insights from a qualitative study. |
| 28th Jul 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Roy Suddaby, |
Affiliation: |
University of Alberta |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
Institutional Homology: Explaining Corporate Art |
| 14th Jul 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Jane Broadbent and Richard Laughlin, |
Affiliation: |
Roehampton University |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
Performance Management: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis |
| 9th Jun 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Ronita Singh, |
Affiliation: |
Discipline of Accounting University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
International Accounting Standard Board (IASB)'s Agenda Formulation Process: A Case of Small and Medium-sized Entities (SMEs) standard |
| 26th May 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Susan Greer, |
Affiliation: |
Discipline of Accounting University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
Accounting and Pastoral Power: The case of Indigentured Indigenous 'Apprenticeship' Programs in Australia |
| 12th May 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Neal Arthur, |
Affiliation: |
Discipline of Accounting University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
Bonus Caps, Corporate Governance and Pay-Performance Sensitivity |
| 28th Apr 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Sharron O'Neill, |
Affiliation: |
Discipline of Accounting University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
OHS Disclosure: Corporate Accountability or Instiutionalised Safewash? |
| 14th Apr 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Sandy van der Laan, |
Affiliation: |
Discipline of Accounting University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
Funding Asbestos Liabilities: An investigation of corporate and regulatory responses |
| 31st Mar 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Igor Goncharov, |
Affiliation: |
University of Amsterdam Business School |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
Does Reporting Timeliness Affect Book-Tax Differences? |
| 17th Mar 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Walter Schuster, |
Affiliation: |
Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
Standards, incentives and accounting practice - lessons from the IFRS transition in Sweden |
| 3rd Mar 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Rod Coyte and Gary Oliver, |
Affiliation: |
Discipline of Accounting University of Sydney |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
Addressing Learning Issues in International Student Cohorts to Enhance Educational Outcomes in the Master of Professional Accounting |
| 11th Feb 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Brendan O'Dwyer, |
Affiliation: |
Amsterdam Business School, Netherlands |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
Aligning programmatic ideals and technological capabilities: The case of sustainability assurance |
| 20th Jan 2010 - 11:00 am | |
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Speaker: |
Gunther Gebhardt, |
Affiliation: |
Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany |
Venue: |
Room 214/5, Economics and Business Building (H69) |
Title: |
The Intransparency of Financial Risks in Bank Financial Statements |


