Research Seminars
Accounting and Finance seminars are held at the Caulfield and Clayton campuses. The Research Seminar Program provides exposure to a wide range of topics, which encompass pure, as well as applied research. Staff from all Monash campuses, members of other universities, and personnel from business, government and accounting organisations are invited to attend. Visitors from outside Monash are particularly welcome.
If you wish to obtain a copy of a paper, or have any other enquiries, please contact Janto Haman for all Accounting seminar enquiries, or Philip Gharghori for Finance seminar enquiries.
Seminar Program for Semester 1 2012
Financial Accounting and Auditing Seminars, Finance Seminars, Management Accounting and Information Systems Seminars
| Date/Time | Presenter | Title | Campus/Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday 10 February 11:00 am start | Prof Sue Lewelleyn Manchester Business School, UK | Accounting and Accountability in an Italian social care provider: Contrasting people-changing with people- processing approaches | Caulfield H4.88 |
| Tuesday 14 February 9:30 am start | Prof Sue Haka Michigan State University | Accounting contextual variables in negotiations: Our Distrust is Very Expensive | Caulfield H4.88 |
| Tuesday 21 February 9:30 am start | Assoc Prof Sally Widener Rice University | Managerial Influence in Performance Measurement System Design: A Recipe for Success? | Caulfield H4.88 |
| Friday 2 March | Prof Marleen Willekens Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) | Competitive pressure, audit quality and industry specialisation | Caulfield H4.88 |
| Wednesday 7 March 9:30 am start | Professor Alan Webb The University of Waterloo | Detecting Misreporting in Subordinate Budgets | Caulfield H4.88 |
| Friday 9 March 9:30 am start | Prof Renee Adams UNSW | Is pay a matter of values? | Caulfield HB32 |
| Friday 16 March 9:30 am start | Prof Greg Clinch University of Melbourne | Google search activity and the market response to earnings announcements | Caulfield HB40 |
| Friday 23 March | Prof Stephen Zeff Rice University, Houston, USA | The various guises of jurisdictions' 'Adoption' of IFRS around the world | Caulfield HB40 |
| Wednesday 28 March 9:30 am start | Professor Jim Hunton Bentley University | Disclosure of friendship ties between directors and CEOs can yield perverse effects | Caulfield S232 |
| Friday 30 March | Dr Dirk Baur UTS | Safe Haven Assets and Investor Behaviour under Uncertainty | Clayton, 11/H7 |
| Wednesday 11 April 12:00 pm start | Prof Paul Gerrans UWA | Retirement Savings Decision Making | Caulfield HB40 |
| Thursday 12 April 11:00 am start | Dr Matt Hall SPE, UK | How do Risk Managers become influential? A Field study of tool making and expertise in two financial institutions | Caulfield HB40 |
| Friday 13 April | Prof Gordon Clark University of Oxford, UK | Saving for retirement | Caulfield HB40 |
| Friday 20 April 9:30 am start | Prof Kerry Jacobs ANU | The hidden power of and hidden resistance to accounting: World bank lending to Tonga | Caulfield H235 |
| Friday 27 April 9:30 am start | Prof Shirley Gregor ANU | A 'sweet spot' intervention in a least developed country: Leveraging eGovernment in Bangladesh | Clayton 11/457 |
| Friday 4 May 9:30 am start | Assoc Prof Helen Hasan University of Wollongong | Using play for organisational development: A study of a computer-based team game at work | Caulfield HB32 |
| Friday 11 May 8:30 am start | Prof Doug Foster ANU | Why Might Investors Choose Active Management? | Caulfield HB32 |
| Friday 18 May 9:30 am start | Prof Peter Clarkson University of Queensland | Empirical evidence on the valuation implications of the European Union carbon emissions trading scheme | Clayton 12/L2 |
| Friday 25 May | Assoc Prof Bart Frijns Auckland University, NZ | Style Switching Behavior of Mutual Fund Managers | Clayton TBC |
| Friday 1 June | Dr Matthew Peters UTS | IT enablement of management control capabilities - Theory and empirical testing | Clayton TBC |
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For a list of past conferences and seminars please visit our conferences and seminars archive.
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