Gus De Franco and Hila Fogel-Yaari organized the Freeman School’s second annual Mini-Financial Accounting Research Conference in February. The conference attracted nearly 50 participants from prominent business schools in the U.S. and Canada and featured presentations by renowned financial accounting scholars including Phil Berger, Catherine M. Schrand and Patricia M. Dechow.
Lynn Hannan
Lynn Hannan spoke at the American Accounting Association’s 2017 Diversity Section Midyear Meeting, which took place
Nov. 3–5 in New Orleans. The topic of her invited address was “Why Diversity in the Workplace Is Important.” Hannan also presented her paper “Mutual Monitoring and Team Member Communication,” co-authored with Markus Arnold and Ivo Tafkov, at Brigham Young University in March 2018.
Amanda Heitz
Amanda Heitz presented her paper “Creditor Rights and Bank Losses: A Cross-Country Comparison,” co-authored with Assistant Professor of Accounting Gans Narayanamoorthy, at the Freeman School’s Mini-Financial Accounting Research Conference in February. Heitz is an assistant professor of finance.
Barrett Wheeler presented his paper “Loan Loss Accounting and Procyclical Bank Lending: The Role of Direct Regulatory Intervention” at the Freeman School’s Mini- Financial Accounting Research Conference in February. Wheeler is an assistant professor of accounting.
