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Accounting Research Seminar Speaker Series

The following Lyons School of Accounting workshops are open to all PhD students, faculty, and staff in the Rawls community who wishes to attend. Faculty wishing to have their undergraduate students attend should contact Jason Schwebke, PhD in advance of the presentation.

 

Spring 2026

Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Location & Time
Paper
02/13/2026
Lisa Baudot
HEC Paris
BA 15
2:15-3:45 PM
"Managing discretion: Revenue recognition in the mobile gaming industry"
02/27/2026
Alex Johanns
University of Kentucky
BA 15
2:15-3:45 PM
"Determinants of Algorithm Aversion in Audit Risk Assessment: Professional Judgement Norms and Auditors' Wise-Thinking Dispositions"

 

Fall 2025

Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Location & Time
Paper
09/19/2025
Christina Ruiz
Indiana University
BA 103
10:00-11:30 AM
"Do Auditor-Provided Tax Services Improve the Effectiveness of Corporate Tax Strategies?"
10/03/2025
Ryan Sommerfeldt
Brigham Young University
BA 103
10:00-11:30 AM
"Paying for Diversity: How CEO Messaging Influences Employee Responses to Diversity-Based Executive Compensation"

Spring 2025

Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Location & Time
Paper
01/31/2025
Stephanie Walton
Louisiana State University
BA 025
10:00-11:30 AM
"The Role of Auditor Information Technology Use in Enhancing Audit Quality and Efficiency: Evidence from Audit Offices"
02/28/2025
Michelle Harding
Virginia Tech
BA 025
10:00-11:30 AM
 "The Effect of Changes in State Tax Rates on State, Federal and Foreign Tax Planning: Is the Federal Government Bearing the Burden?"
03/28/2025
Jenna Burke
University of Colorado-Denver
BA 025
10:00-11:30 AM
"Are Audit Disclosures Informative about Foreign Earnings?"

Fall 2024

Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Location & Time
Paper
09/06/2024
Bo Gao
University of Texas at El Paso
BA 025
10:00-11:30 AM
"How Does Clients' "Single-Step" Disclosure Strategy Influence Resource Competition in Audit Offices?"
10/04/2024
Dan Lynch
University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA 025
10:00-11:30 AM
"The Effects of Tax Reform on Labor Demand within Tax Departments"
11/15/2024
Theresa Libby
University of Central Florida
BA 025
10:00-11:30 AM
"Reasonable and Rational Judgement Guidance as an Informal Control."