Brown Bag Series
Dr. Amr ElAlfy
March 21, 2025
Assistant Professor at School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development (SEED), University of Waterloo
The Role of Accounting in Sustainability and Circular Economy
February 13th, 2024
Presented by Dr. Liette Vasseur, Professor of Biological Sciences, Brock University
Monitoring Agency Costs and Seasoned Equity Offerings
November 22nd, 2024
Presented by Dr. Nadia Massoud, Professor of Finance at Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne
Do Analysts’ Forecasts of Target Firm Cash Flows Improve Deal Pricing in Mergers and Acquisitions?
October 5th, 2023
Presented by Dr. Linda Myers, Professor of Accounting, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
CEO Political Engagement and Personal SEC Prosecution
April 2022 (in person)
Presented by Dr. Ray Zhang from Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University
New Measure of Similarity in Textual Analysis: Vector Similarity Metric versus Cosine Similarity Metric
September 2022 (in person)
Dr. Rajendra Srivastava, Professor of Accounting at School of Business, University of Kansas
Joint Goodman Talk to Examine Disclosures, Social Activities of Accounting Firms
September 2022 (in person)
Dr. Jayanthi Krishnan & Dr. Jagan Krishnan
Professors of Accounting at Fox School of Business, Temple University
What Determines Influence in Social Finance? The Case of StockTwits
September 2022 (in person)
Presented by Dr. Nadia Massoud, Professor of Finance at Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne
Board Inventors and Innovation Disclosure
October 2022 (in person)
Presented by Dr. Agnes Cheng, Professor of Accounting at Steed School of Accounting, The University of Oklahoma
A Measure of Management’s Withholding of Bad News
April 2021 (via microsoft teams)
Presented by Dr. Vasiliki Athanasakou, Associate Professor of Accounting at Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University
VR Could Improve Ethical Awareness in the Accounting Profession
November 2021 (via microsoft teams)
Presented by Dr. Robert Steinbauer, Associate Professor of Business Ethics at Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Audit Production with Joint Fixed Costs: Theory and Evidence
February 2020 (in person)
Presented by Dr. Dan Simunic, Professor of Accounting, Simon Fraser University & Professor Emeritus, UBC
Does Zero Lower Bound Policy Affect Managerial Risk-Taking and Executive Compensation
February 2019 (In person)
Presented by Dr. Samir Trabelsi, Professor of Accounting, Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Collective Efficacy: Microfoundations of Control at the Last Mile in Production
February 2019 (in person)Â
Presented by Dr. Paul Scarbrough, Associate Professor of Accounting, Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Does Annual Report Readability Explain the Accrual Anomaly?
March 2019 (in person)
Presented by Dr. Frank Liu, Associate Professor of Accounting, Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Experiential Education: The Push for Inclusion or Exclusion
March 2019 (in person)
Presented by Professor Glenn Skrubbeltrang, Lecturer of Accounting, Goodman School of Business, Brock University
The New Government Funding Formula
April 2019 (in person)
Presented by Dr. Staci Kenno, Associate Professor of Accounting, Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Going GAGAS for Due Process: An Examination of Yellow Book Comment Letters
November 2019 (in person)
Presented by Dr. Michelle Lau, Associate Professor of Accounting, Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Webinars
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SASB STANDARDS DEEP DIVE: ENTERPRISE VALUE-FOCUSED ESG REPORTING FOR INVESTORS WEBINAR
October 2021
This webinar focuses on the latest developments in the fast-changing world of ESG reporting for investors. With investor attention globally coalescing around SASB Standards and the TCFD recommendations, we hear a briefing on the rapid corporate adoption of SASB Standards based on industry-specific, financially material ESG issues. Webinar Topics include:
- How investors are integrating ESG data into their investment decisions and stewardship
- Ways that corporate reporting is evolving to meet the needs of more data-driven investment processes
- Incorporating ESG factors into strategy and risk management
- Relationship of SASB Standards to other frameworks, including GRI & SDGs
- The changing regulatory landscape for ESG reporting
Webinar Recording
SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING
May 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the focus on various environmental, social, and governance issues by investors, policy makers, and educators. Competing frameworks, absence of a standard, measurement uncertainty, different measures of materiality, inconsistent reporting methods, boilerplate language, and comparability are numerous challenges among others hindering the widespread adoption of sustainability reporting, and these challenges are somewhat interrelated. In our Sustainability Reporting Webinar, our panelists collectively addressed these sustainability reporting challenges that are of critical importance to all the stakeholders.