Accountancy and Finance Seminars
2012 Seminar Series Programme (last updated 18/05/2012)
Semester 1 2012
Friday 10 February 1pm Commerce Room CO5.37
"Earnings quality, management, conservatism, profit at risk and why accounting allocations matter: A statistical perspective" by Professor Roger Willett (University of Tasmania)
Thursday 16 February 1pm Commerce Room CO5.37
"Firm level modelling of the long-run relationship between market values and accounting numbers of thirty Australian listed companies" by Professor Roger Willett (University of Tasmania)
Friday 2 March 1pm Commerce Boardroom CO4.19/4.20
"Patriotic Name Bias and Stock Returns" by Dr Marek Jochec (University of Otago Department of Accountancy & Finance) (Visiting Lecturer from ISCTE Business School Lisbon University Institute Portugal)
Friday 9 March 1pm Commerce Boardroom CO4.19/4.20
"Corporate Governance and Intellectual Capital Disclosure" by Dr Ros Whiting and Honours Student Georgia Birch (University of Otago, Department of Accountancy & Finance)
Friday 16 March 12.30pm Commerce Room CO2.07
"Towards Global Financial Reporting Comparability" by Professor Stephen Zeff (Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University, Houston, Texas)
Friday 23 March 1pm Commerce Boardroom CO4.19/4.20
"Co-integration and time varying correlations between US and Chinese stock market" by Professor Bing Zhang (Center of Environmental Management & Policy Nanjing University, China)
Friday 30 March 1pm Commerce Boardroom CO4.19/4.20
"Examining the Nature of the Causal Relationship between spot and Futures Prices in the Commodity Market: An International Evidence" by Duminda Kuruppuarachchi PhD Student (University of Otago, Department of Accountancy & Finance)
Friday 25 May 1pm Commerce Boardroom CO4.19/4.20
International Predictors and Stock Return Predictability: Evidence from the New Zealand Market by Dr Hai Lin, (University of Otago, Department of Accountancy and Finance)
Friday 8 June 1pm Commerce Room CO5.37
"Momentum Strategies in New Zealand" by Reza Tajaddini, PhD student (University of Otago, Department of Accountancy and Finance)
Friday 6 July 1pm Commerce Boardroom CO4.19/4.20
Topic (TBA) Niamh Brennan Visiting William Evans Scholar (Quinn School of BusinessUCD University, Belfield, Dublin)
Friday 20 July 1pm Commerce Boardroom CO4.19/4.20
Topic (TBA) Niamh Brennan Visiting William Evans Scholar (Quinn School of BusinessUCD University, Belfield, Dublin)
Semester 1 2011
Wednesday 16 February 1.00pm Commerce Board Room CO4.19-4.20
"The Influence of Corporate Governance on Management Earnings Forecast Behaviour in a Low Private Litigation Environment" by Thu Phuong Truong (Victoria University)
Friday 18 February 1.00pm Commerce Board Room CO4.19-4.20
"Hegemony, Counter Hegemony and Accountability Change in BRAC - a Bangladeshi NGO" by Professor Trevor Hopper (Victoria University)
Wednesday 23 February 1.00pm Commerce Board Room CO4.19-4.20
"Accounting Conservatism and Residual Income Models: Theory and Supporting Evidence" by Professor David Ashton (University of Bristol)
Friday 25 February 1.00pm Commerce Board Room CO4.19-4.20
"A New Approach to the Simultaneous Estimation of the Implied Cost of Equity Capital and Long-run Growth" by Professor David Ashton (University of Bristol)
Friday 4 March 1.00pm Commerce Board Room CO4.19-4.20
Research presentation by Reza Tajaddini, PhD student (University of Otago, Department of Accountancy and Finance)
Wednesday 30 March 1.00pm Commerce Board Room CO4.19-4.20
"Financial Analysis Used in Clean Development Mechanisms: Fact or Fiction?" by Associate Professor Naomi S Soderstrom (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Friday 8 April 1.00pm Commerce Board Room C04.19-4.20
"Earnings quality, conservatism, financial risk and accounting allocations: A statistical perspective" by Professor Roger Willett (University of Tasmania)
Tuesday 12 April 1.00pm Commerce Board Room CO4.19-4.20
"On the Returns on Growth Stocks" by Professor Chu Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Tecnhology)
Friday 15 April 1.00pm Commerce Board Room CO4.19-4.20
"Buying dear selling cheap yet making money: A testimonial on Corporate Trade" by Frederico Botafogo PhD student (University of Otago, Department of Accountancy and Finance)
Friday 20 May 1.00pm Commerce Board Room CO4.19-4.20
"Are Corporate Bond Market Returns Predictable?" by Dr Hai Lin (University of Otago, Accountancy and Finance)
Friday 27 May 1.00pm Commerce Board Room CO4.19-4.20
"Technology, Intellectual Capital Disclosure and Cost of Capital" by Dr Rosalind Whiting (University of Otago, Accountancy and Finance)
Friday 3 June 1.00pm Commerce Board Room CO4.19-4.20
"Risk-Return Dynamics of Derivative Based Investment Strategies: A study of S & P CNX NIFTY" (Indian Stock Market Index) by Dr Narinder Malik (Haryana School of Business, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar-125001, Haryana, India) Co author Dr Ved Pal.
Semester 2 2011
Friday 29 July 1.00pm Commerce Boardroom CO4.19-4.20
Indian Ocean trade: A neglected element in the history of accounting thought and its diffusion: by Professor Gregory Liyanarachchi (Lincoln University)
Friday 5 August 1.00pm Commerce Boardroom CO4.19-4.20
Text Analysis Approaches in Corporate Narrative Reporting Research: by Professor Niamh Brennan (University College Dublin)
Friday 12 August 1.00pm Commerce Boardroom CO4.19-4.20
The State of Accounting Education Scholarship in New Zealand: by Professor Ralph Adler (University of Otago Accountancy and Finance)
Friday 26 August 1.00pm Commerce Boardroom CO4.19-4.20
Sustainable equity portfolios: Minimum tracking error, style neutrality and performance: By Assistant Professor Dr Rickard Olsson (Umea University, Sweden)
Friday 16 September 1.00pm Commerce Boardroom CO4.19-4.20
Ownership and Performance in a Lightly Regulated, Non-Competitive Operating Environment: By Professor Mike Bradbury (Massey University)
Friday 7 October 1.00pm Commerce Boardroom C)4.19-4.20
Real Options, Momentum, Acceleration and the Valuation of Equity: by Emeritus Professor Mark Tippett
Friday 4 November 1.00pm Commerce Boardroom CO4.19-4.20
The Valuation of Equity Futures on the Tokyo Stock Exchange: 1920-1923: by Dr Toby Daglish (Victoria University)
Friday 9 December 1.00pm Commerce Boardroom C)4.19-4.20
Topic to be advised: By Professor Stefan Trueck (Macquarie University, Sydney)