Conference Schedule
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| Friday, November 4, 2011 | |
| 9:30 a.m. –10:00 a.m. | Registration & Breakfast: Kaufman Management Center (KMC), 44 West Fourth Street Registration: Lobby, Kaufman Management Center (KMC) Breakfast: Outside KMC 1-70 Conference Proceedings: KMC 1-70 |
| 10:00 a.m.– 10:15 a.m. | Welcome & Opening Remarks, KMC 1-70 Bala K.R. Balachandran, Editor-in-Chief Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, NYU Stern Ingo Walter, Vice Dean NYU Stern |
| 10:15 a.m. – 11:05 a.m. | Understanding Cost Behavior and Its Implications for Financial Accounting Research Presenter: Rajiv Banker, Temple University |
| 11:05 a.m. – 11:55 a.m. | The Advisory and Monitoring Roles of Boards of Directors Presenter: Tim Baldenius, NYU Stern |
| 11:55 a.m. – 12: 45 p.m. | (Why) Does Transparency Matter? Presenter: Mark Lang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m | Lunch Barr-Kawamura Commons, KMC 5-50 |
| 1:45 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. | Continuation Options and Returns-Earnings Convexity by Mary Brooke Billings, Matthew C. Cedergren and Stephen Ryan, NYU Stern School of Business Presenter: Mary Billings, NYU Stern Discussant: Masako Darrough, Baruch College of the City University of New York |
| 2:40 p.m. – 3:35 p.m. | The Accrual Anomaly and Operating Cash Flows: Evidence from Accrual Components by Zhaoyang Gu, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and Prem C. Jain, Georgetown University Presenter: Zhaoyang Gu, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Discussant: C S Agnes Cheng, Louisiana State University |
| 3:35 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. | Coffee Break: Outside KMC 1-70 |
| 3:55 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. | On Self-Enforcing Clawback Provisions in Executive Compensation by Mingcherng Deng, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and Ying-Ju Chen, UC Berkeley Presenter: Mingcherng Deng, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Discussant: Pierre Jinghong Liang, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 4:50 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. | Implications of firm heterogeneity for the accounting of cash flow hedges under SFAS 133 by Dennis Frestad, University of Agder, Norway and Leif A. Beisland, University of Agder, Norway Presenter: Dennis Frestad, University of Agder, Norway Discussant: A. Rashad Abdel Khalik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Saturday, November 5, 2011 | |
| 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Registration & Breakfast Kaufman Management Center (KMC), 44 West Fourth Street Registration: Lobby, Kaufman Management Center (KMC) Breakfast: Outside KMC 2-60 Conference Proceedings: KMC 2-60 |
| 9:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. | Firm Growth, Firm Size and the Diversification Discount by Joost Impink, Univeristy of Florida Presenter: Joost Impink, University of Florida Discussant: Suresh Radhakrishnan, University of Texas at Dallas |
| 10:20 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. | Expected Earnings Growth, Stock Valuation and Investor Sentiment by Zhao Gao, Lancaster University Presenter: Zhao Gao, Lancaster University Discussant: Xue Wang, Tulane University |
| 11:15 a.m. – 11:35 a.m. | Coffee Break: Outside KMC 2-60 |
| 11:35 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | The BP Oil Spill: Shareholder Wealth Effects and Environmental Disclosure by Frank Heflin, Florida State University and Dana Wallace, Florida State University Presenter: Dana Wallace, Florida State University Discussant: Michael Jung, NYU Stern |
| 12:30 p.m. – 12:35 p.m. | Closing Remarks Bala K.R. Balachandran Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance |
| 12:35 p.m. – 1:35 p.m. | Lunch Barr-Kawamura Commons, KMC 5-50 |
