Past Events

Mainstreaming ESG: What Difference Does it Make? And How?

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Hosts: Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance; Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research     Schedule: 9:30am - 10:00am Breakfast   10:00am - 11:15am  Paper 1: “Investors Response to the #MeToo Movement: Does Corporate Culture Matter?”   Presented By: April Klein (NYU Stern School of Business) Commenters: Colleen Honigsberg (Stanford Law School)                       …

Governance, Regulation and Accounting for Digital Assets

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Info Sheet  NYU Stern Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research and the NYU Stern Volatility and Risk Institute are co-hosting a conference focusing on the many pending issues regarding digital assets. Our conference will explore how frameworks for governance, pending regulation, legal and accounting intersect for digital assets.   Please join us for a day of informative conversation and…

Human Capital Disclosures

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Hosts: NYU Stern Center for Business & Human Rights; Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research Recording  |  Bio Sheet  | Agenda Human capital management is of growing interest to companies, investors, and civil society. For the past two years, the SEC has required issuers to disclose their high-level human capital strategy. Now the SE is preparing to mandate much more detailed reporting…

Four-School Accounting Research Conference

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Agenda The Department of Accounting at NYU Stern School of Business hosted the Four-School Accounting Research Conference on April 29, 2022.  This annual conference brings together accounting researchers from four leading northeastern business schools, Columbia Business School, NYU Stern, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale School of Management.  Each school would have one…

What should the rules be for Cryptoassets? Accounting, Regulatory and Legislative Perspectives

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Agenda | Recording | Bio Sheet   Over the last two years, cryptoassets have received significant attention from the media, regulators, governments, investors, and banking institutions.   How should we account for them?   Should they be regulated?  If so, how and by whom?   Is legislation needed?   What cross-border governance is needed?   We will explore the major implications of these…

Given that it looks like the SEC will mandate ESG disclosure, what should it mandate?

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Agenda | Biographies of Speakers & Panelists | Zoom Recording Moderated by: April Klein, Robert Jackson, and Edward Rock Roundtable Overview: Post-election, with a new SEC chair, one of the Commission’s priorities is “ESG Disclosure.” In what should that consist? As with the enactment of the 1933 and 1934 Acts, Securities Regulation works best when it codifies best practices. What are the best…

Climate Disclosure and Firms

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Agenda In Larry Fink’s 2020 letter to CEOs, the BlackRock CEO wrote that   Given the groundwork, we have already laid engaging on disclosure, and the growing investment risks surrounding sustainability, we will be increasingly disposed to vote against management and board directors when companies are not making sufficient progress on sustainability-related disclosures and the business practices…

Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL): Transparency or Opacity? Implementation and Effects on Lending and Pro-Cyclicality

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Agenda | Transcript | Presentation Moderated by Paul Zarwin and Joshua Ronen Roundtable Overview: The Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research and the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions at NYU’s Stern School of Business are hosting a Roundtable on Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL): Transparency or Opacity? Implementation and Effects on Lending and Pro-Cyclicality…