Visitors to the School of Accounting

Forthcoming international visitors for early 2012 

These international researchers will be visiting the Accounting Discipline Group early 2012.

8 January - 29 March 2012

Professor Mark Soliman (Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle, USA) will be visiting the Accounting Discipline Group. University of Washington Profile.

30 January - 3 February 2012

Professor S P Kothari (MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts, USA) will be visiting the Accounting Discipline Group as one of the key-note speakers for the UTS Summer Accounting Research Conference. MIT Sloan School of Management Profile.

30 January - 3 February 2012

Professor Joseph Weber (MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts, USA) will be visiting the Accounting Discipline Group as one of the key-note speakers for the UTS Summer Accounting Research Conference. MIT Sloan School of Management Profile.

11 - 18 February 2012

Professor Markus Granlund (Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland) will be visiting the Accounting Discipline Group. University of Turku Profile.

17 February - 10 May 2012

Associate Professor Bruce Dehning (Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University, USA) will be visiting the Accounting Discipline Group. Chapman University Profile.

30 April - 4 May 2012

Professor Daniel W. Collins (Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, USA) will be visiting the Accounting Discipline Group to present a two-day workshop. University of Iowa Profile.

Previous international visitors

Professor Peter Easton

Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

Professor Peter Easton visited the Accounting Discipline Group in May/June 2010, November 2010 and October 2011.

Easton is the Director of the Center for Accounting Research and Education as well as the ND Alumni Professor of Accountancy and a principal at Chicago Partners LLC. Prof. Easton is the author of four books published by Cambridge Business Publishers. Prof. Easton speaks at workshops and conferences worldwide.

Professor Gerhard Speckbacher

Vienna University of Economics and Business

Professor Gerhard Speckbacher visited the Accounting Discipline Group 17 - 21 October 2011.

Since April 2000, Professor Dr. Gerhard Speckbacher has been head of the Institute for Strategic Management and Management Control at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His current research mainly deals with performance measurement and performance regulation in large and medium-sized companies as well as strategic management of collaborative relationships between companies. The Institute for Strategic Management and Management Control maintains close cooperative relations with leading international companies and research institutes.

Professor Speckbacher is also head of the “Center of Excellence”, which promotes high-potential students at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, as well as the “Meisterklasse Osteuropa”, an add-on programme to the University of Business and Economics’s regular courses, in which young managers are trained for Central and Eastern European countries.

Associate Professor Marlene Plumlee

University of Utah

Associate Professor Marlene Plumlee visited the Accounting Discipline Group 6 - 12 September 2011.

Professor Dan Dhaliwal

Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona

Professor Dan Dhaliwal first visited in July 2001. He returned in July 2002 and presented a research paper on "The Effect of Payout Policy, Institutional Ownership and Shareholder Income Taxes on the Relation Between Earnings and Returns". Professor Dhaliwal visited again from October 2003 to February, in July 2004, November 2004, May 2005, November 2005, June 2006, November 2006, May 2007, November 2007, June 2008, December 2008, July 2009, November 2009, March 2010, June to December 2010 abd June to July 2011.

Professor Dhaliwal is the Head of the Department of Accounting in the University of Arizona, as well as the Lou Myers Professor of Accounting and a Professor of Finance. His research interests include taxes and economic behavior; economic consequences of disclosure and accounting regulations; and management reaction to and choice of accounting alternatives. His research results have been published in the FASB Research Report Series, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and several other accounting and economics journals.

Professor Katherine Schipper

Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Professor Katherine Schipper visited the Accounting Discipline Group February 2010 and again in July 2011 as as our key-note speaker at the UTS/JCAE Joint Mid-Year Symposium.

Professor Katherine Schipper is the Thomas F. Keller Professor of Business Administration at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Prior to joining Duke University's faculty, she was a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). She has also been a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Chicago.Ms Schipper has published research papers on a wide range of topics in financial reporting, corporation finance and corporate governance and she is a frequent speaker on matters related to international accounting convergence and financial reporting quality. She has been named the American Accounting Association's Outstanding Educator, and Distinguished International Lecturer, and has been elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame. She has served the American Accounting Association as Director of Research, as President and as President of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section. She is or has been a member of the governing boards of a public company, a mutual fund and a not-for-profit entity.Ms Schipper holds a BA degree from the University of Dayton, MBA, MA and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago and an honorary degree from Notre Dame University.

Professor Dan Simunic

Sauder School of Business, The University of British Columbia

Professor Dan Simunic visited the Accounting Discipline Group 24 - 30 June 2011.

Professor Vernon Richardson

Sam M Walton Business School, University of Arkansas

Professor Vernon Richardson visited the Accounting Discipline Group 8 - 22 June 2011.

Professor Vernon Richardson is the Head of the Department of Accounting in Sam M. Walton College of Business  in the University of Arkansas, as well as the S. Robson Walton Chair in Accounting. His research interests include the business value of information technology investments and the accounting impact of information technology. His research has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Operations Management and the American Business Law Journal.  Vern is a certified public accountant and has worked for both Arthur Andersen & Co. and Grant Thornton and sits on the board of directors and chair of the audit committee of Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies.  Vern has written textbooks in financial and managerial accounting and in accounting information systems.

Professor Jere Francis

Trulaske College of Business, University if Missouri

Professor Jere Francis visited the Accounting Discipline Group in March 2010, June 2010, November 2010 and March 2011.

Jere R. Francis (PhD, University of New England, Australia’82), is the Curators' Professor and Trulaske Chair of Accounting, and Doctoral Program Director of the School of Accountancy. He teaches doctoral research seminars and the School’s 5th year capstone course, Accounting & Strategic Financial Analysis, a case-based course that inter-relates corporate strategy, accounting analysis, and business valuation. During the 2005-06 academic year, Professor Francis published papers The Accounting Review and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. He also presented research papers at the 2005 American Accounting Association annual meeting, the 2006 mid-year meeting of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association, and the 2006 Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association. Professor Francis served as the 2006 Chair of the American Accounting Association’s 2006 Doctoral Consortium held annually at Lake Tahoe. He made invited research presentations at Lehigh University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Paris, and University of Melbourne, and serves on the editorial board of The Accounting Review, is Co-Editor of International Journal of Accounting, and Associate Editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory.

Professor Eli Bartov

Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University

Professor Eli Bartov visited the Accounting Discipline Group in March 2006, November 2008 and again in February 2011.

Professor Bartov is a Research Professor of Accounting at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. His research focuses on executive stock options, earnings management, earnings expectation management, executive compensation and various aspects of equity valuation. Professor Bartov has published extensively in leading accounting and finance journals including Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and The Accounting Review.

Professor Terrence Shevlin

Michael G Foster School of Business, University of Washington

Professor Terrence Shevlin visited the Accounting Discipline Group 31 January - 4 February 2011 and was our key-note speaker at our 2011 UTS Australian Summer Accounting Symposium.

Professor Markus Granlund

Turku School of Economics, Finland

Professor Markus Granlund visited the Accounting Discipline Group February 2010 and February 2011.

Markus Granlund is a Professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance at Turku School of Economics (University of Turku), Finland. He is the Associate Editor of European Accounting Review. Professor Granlund’s fields of expertise are; Management accounting; Management control; Sociological/institutional research on accounting; Strategic accounting; Capital budgeting; Budgeting and rolling forecasting/rolling forecasts; The changing role of accounting professionals and the accounting function; Accounting information systems; and Accounting software.

Professor Granlund has published both in academic journals and in the trade press. His articles have been published in e.g. Accounting, Organizations and Society, Management Accounting Research, Journal of Management Accounting Research, and European Accounting Review.

Professor Teemu Malmi

Helsinki School of Economics, Finland

Professor Teemu Malmi was a visiting professor at Accounting Discipline Group in 2005. He visited again in March 2006, August 2006, January/February 2007, November 2007, January 2009, November/December 2009 and November/December 2010.

Professor Malmi's teaching and research focus mainly on managerial control systems, strategy implementation and cost and profitability accounting. He teaches regularly in number of executive education programs. Professor Malmi has served as a consultant to a wide range of private organizations in the following industries: Agricultural, Computers, Energy, Finance, Food processing, Furniture, Health Care, Media, Metal and Engineering, Paper and Pulp, Pharmaceuticals, Rental Services, Retail, Telecom and Transportation/logistics. He has also experience form public organizations, including ministries, municipalities and hospitals. Professor Malmi is a member of the board at QPR Software Oyj, and WaveQ Systems Oy.Professor Malmi has published both in academic journals and in the trade press. His articles have been published in Accounting, Organization & Society, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Management Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, and Finnish Journal of Business Economics. He serves on the editorial board of Management Accounting Research. His most recent book is Tietoteknikan Mahdollisuudet Taloushallinnon Kehittämisessä (Information Technology as a Tool to Develop Accounting Function's Business Support) with M. Granlund.

Professor Paul Griffin

Graduate School of Management, University of California

Professor Paul Griffin visited the Accounting Discipline Group 31 March - 1 April 2010.

Professor Griffin is an internationally recognized specialist in the areas of accounting, financial valuation and the role of information in security markets. He has published extensively in leading accounting and finance journals, and has written research monographs for the Financial Accounting Standards Board and case books on corporate financial reporting.

According to a recent study of influential accounting articles, Griffin is among the top 20 scholars who have the highest citations of their research since 1976, and among the top 10 who have published two or more “classic” accounting articles since that date. His most recent publications examine the effects of securities fraud litigation on investors and creditors in securities markets. He is also knowledgeable about how the investments and liability of accounting firms can help them maintain auditor independence.

Professor Joseph Weber

MIT Sloan School of Management

Professor Joseph Weber visited the Accounting Discipline Group 15 January 2010 - 15 April 2010.

Joseph Weber specializes in empirical work on the importance of accounting information in financial contracts. His recent work documents how an innovation in the commercial debt market — performance pricing — allows for more efficient contracting by reducing the expected renegotiation costs of the contract. Weber's research has recently appeared in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, and the Journal of Accounting and Economics. When not conducting research,Weber teaches the core financial accounting class to first year MBA students at MIT Sloan. Prior to entering academia,Weber worked for Price Waterhouse and AXA Financial. 

Professor Robert Bushman

Kenan-Flagler Business School, The Unversity of North Carolina

Professor Robert Bushman visited in January/February 2004. He conducted a 2-day PhD Research Workshop on "Financial Accounting and Corporate Governance" and was the keynote speaker in the 2004 Summer Research School. He returned in February 2009 where he presented a 2-day research seminar and participated in the 12th UTS Australian Summer Accounting Symposium.

Professor Bushman is a Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Scholar. His research encompasses theoretical and empirical inquiry into issues of information in capital markets, performance measurement and incentive compensation design, and international aspects of corporate governance.