{"id":49362,"date":"2018-02-14T12:41:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T17:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=49362"},"modified":"2018-02-14T14:52:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T19:52:54","slug":"speaker-series-to-discuss-tax-avoidance-behaviour-by-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/02\/speaker-series-to-discuss-tax-avoidance-behaviour-by-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker series to discuss tax avoidance behaviour by companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Accounting Tanya Tang will talk about the implications of tax avoidance during a Goodman School of Business event Friday, Feb. 16.<\/p>\n<p>Held as part of Goodman\u2019s Luncheon Speaker Series, Tang will present her paper, \u201cThe value implications of tax avoidance across countries\u201d that was recently published in the <em>Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tang studied data from companies in 46 countries and focused her research on investor perceptions of companies\u2019 tax-avoidance behaviour and found there is a positive relationship between tax avoidance and firm value.<\/p>\n<p>Tang is the recipient of the 2017 Department Research award for Goodman\u2019s Accounting department.<\/p>\n<p>In its 12th\u00a0year, Goodman\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/goodman\/faculty-research\/luncheon-speaker-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luncheon Speaker Series<\/a>\u00a0provides an informal and engaging opportunity to listen and discuss recent advances in research, teaching and practices with colleagues internationally.<\/p>\n<p>The event is being held in Sankey Chamber Friday, Feb. 16 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Space is limited. Goodman faculty, staff and graduate students are invited to attend. Brock community members wishing to attend can email Jennifer Brisson at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jbrisson@brocku.ca\">jbrisson@brocku.ca<\/a>\u00a0to reserve a seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Accounting Tanya Tang will talk about the implications of tax avoidance during a Goodman School of Business event Friday, Feb. 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":49364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,1,4],"tags":[594,2283,6298],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49365,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49362\/revisions\/49365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}