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David Twiddy
American Accounting Association
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In Memoriam
The American Accounting Association remembers and honors our colleagues who have truly been thought leaders in accounting education and have helped to shape the future of accounting through their teaching and research. Please join us in sending condolences to the families and colleagues of these members of the Association:
Roger Herbert Hermanson
Janie Casello Bouges
John Daniel (Dan) Eshleman
Richard William Powell
Lori Holder-Webb
Paul J. Miranti
Dr. Peter R. Gillett
Dr. Laurie W. Pant
Dr. Sandra W. Shelton
Doyle Z. Williams
Dr. Irvin N. Gleim
Thomas Dale Tolleson
Stephen Richard Goldberg
Earl Ray Wilson
James Donald Edwards, Sr.
Paul Miles Clikeman
G. Peter Wilson
Debra Kay Kerby
Latest Press Releases
| 06/09/2022- | BDO Furthers Commitment to Accounting Education: Sponsors the American Accounting Association’s Accounting PhD Rookie Recruiting and Research Camp |
| 05/11/2022- | Study Finds CEO Sports Hobbies Offer Insight on Their Approach to Tax Risk |
| 04/26/2022- | Study Finds Corporate Social Responsibility Boosts Tech Innovation |
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| 10/11/2021- | What Accounting Firms Need to Do If They Are Serious About Diversity |
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| 7/13/2021- | Work-Life Balance Is Associated with High-Quality Audits; Job Satisfaction Isn't |
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| 6/2/2021- | Study Finds Data Breaches Cost Affected Companies – in Higher Interest Rates |
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| 6/8/2021- | Narcissistic CEOs More Likely to Mislead Investor |
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| 6/2/2021- | Study Finds Data Breaches Cost Affected Companies – in Higher Interest Rates |
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| 4/30/2021- | Study: Insurers Are Overestimating Costs, Lowering Rebates Owed to Policyholders |
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| 4/19/2021- | When It Comes to Being Aggressive on Wall Street, Women Face Double Standard, According to American Accounting Association Study |
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| 2/22/2021- | Drought Drives Up Business Costs in Unexpected Ways, According to American Accounting Association Study |
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| 2/10/2020- | FASB, IASB, and The Accounting Review Seek Academic Research Papers for Joint 2022 "Accounting for an Ever-Changing World" Conference |
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| 2/10/2020 - | In Employee Compensation You Get What You Pay For According to American Accounting Association Study |
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| 12/11/2020- | Study Shows Social Media FOMO Actively Hurts Job Performance |
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| 12/1/2020- | Offices With More Non-CPA Staff Boast Higher Quality Audits |
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| 10/13/2020- | Study’s advice to investors glued to smartphone apps: Be wary of those little audible dings that signal news |
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| 09/23/2020- | Should the U.S. broaden its mandate on auditor rotation? No support for doing so emerges from new research |
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| 09/08/2020- | Universally acclaimed though it may be, transparency can inhibit workers from their best efforts, study finds |
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| 08/17/2020- |
More than a personal hardship, sexual harassment foreshadows weak stock performance, study finds |
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| 07/20/2020- | When employees have to make frequent reports, it lowers their performance, new research suggests |
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| 06/26/2020- | Companies that curtail auditors’ tax services for sake of appearances pay stiff price in higher rates, study finds |
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| 06/8/2020- | High fees for executive-compensation consultants are likely a tipoff to sumptuous CEO pay, study finds |
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| 05/8/2020- | How effective has tax reform been in reducing companies' shifting of activities abroad? New research raises doubts |
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| 04/13/2020- | To avoid audit required by controversial federal regulation small firms incur debt instead of selling stock, study finds |
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| 03/09/2020- | Being native to the locale of company headquarters inclines CEOs to manage for the long term, study finds |
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| 02/13/2020- | Extreme language in earnings conference calls is more conviction than hype, study reveals |
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| 01/17/2020- | In social missions, whether for profit or not, low pay augurs high performance, study suggests |
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| 12/13/2019- | With fate of Dodd-Frank rule on clawbacks in doubt, study finds they prompt drops in corporate tax rates |
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| 11/19/2019- | Should CFOs serve on other companies’ boards? Although few do so, it enhances home-firm accounting |
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| 10/30/2019-Threat to quality if alumnus of a company’s audit firm sits on board audit committee? Quite the contrary, study finds | |
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| 10/14/2019- | Company lawsuit risk may be disagreeable to its execs but benefits investors by spurring openness, study finds |
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| 9/16/2019- | Does new rule requiring audit partner disclosure enhance firms’ financial reporting? Initial research raises doubts |
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| 8/29/2019- | Investors favor companies’ tax avoidance and good corporate citizenship, but not in tandem, study finds |
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| 8/8/2019- | Audit firms’ reputations suffer when they issue negative opinions about corporate clients’ accounting, study finds |
| 7/23/2019- | Tax-reform bill has boosted multinationals’ capital investments abroad more than at home, study finds |
| 6/19/2019- | Assumption of expanded roles by CFOs has been a plus for corporate governance, new study finds |
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| 5/28/2019- | Penalizing failure to reach goals may be an effective spur to achievement but also fosters lying about it, study finds |
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| 5/7/2019- | Opinion-shopping for auditors pays off for troubled firms but to the likely detriment of investors, research finds |
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| 4/15/2019- | What drives company income smoothing? To a large extent the CEO’s holdings of stocks and options do, study finds |
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| 3/13/2019- | How can managers foster creativity? Rewarding quantity paves the way for quality, new accounting research finds |
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| 2/19/2019- | Four elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame |
| 2/15/2019- | In revising their forecasts of companies’ current earnings, analysts accentuate the negative, new research finds |
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| 1/14/2019- | Companies’ tax aggressiveness sows investor confusion about basics of firms’ finances and operations, study finds |
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