Both the undergraduate and graduate programs of the School of Accounting at the David Eccles School of Business were named in the top 25 best programs in rankings released by the Public Accounting Report. The Master of Accounting (MAcc) graduate program moved up one spot to No. 21 this year. The undergraduate program landed at No. 22, where it was ranked last year. Among mid-sized accounting schools, the results speak even more highly of the programs. The undergraduate program was ranked No. 7 and the MAcc program was ranked No. 8. For the past 10 years, our MAcc program has boasted a 95 percent placement rate for students upon graduation.
Mission Statement
The mission of the School of Accounting is to prepare graduates for positions of leadership in business.
Degrees in Accounting
School of Accounting Faculty
Respected as some of the best in their field, Eccles School faculty are skilled teachers, innovative researchers and global thought leaders who are shaping the strategic pioneers of the future and transforming business practices worldwide.
Accounting Workshops
The School of Accounting Workshops bring top scholars in accounting and related fields to the University to share their cutting edge research with faculty and doctoral students.
| Date | Speaker | Room | Time | Links |
| Friday, August 25, 2017 | Shane S. Dikolli Duke University |
SFEBB 3106 | 2 – 3:20 PM | CFO Co-Option, Earning Targets, and CEO Compensation |
| Friday, September 1, 2017 | K. Ramesh | SFEBB 3106 | 2 – 3:20 PM | The Federal Reserve’s Reliance on SEC Filings |
| Friday, January 19, 2018 | Mario Schabus Melbourne University | SFEBB 3160 | 2 – 3:20 PM | The Relation between Internal Forecasting, Misreporting, and the Importance of Meeting Performance Benchmarks |
| Friday, March 9, 2018 | Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado | SFEBB 3160 | 2 – 3:20 PM | The Effect of Investor Inattention on Voluntary Disclosure |
| Friday, March 30, 2018 | Xue Wang, Professor, The Ohio State University | SFEBB 3160 | 2 – 3:20 PM | Trade Secrets and Cost Structure |
| Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | Salman Arif, Assistant Professor, Indiana University | CRCC 205 | 2 – 3:20 PM | A Growing Disparity in Earnings Disclosure Mechanisms: The Rise of Concurrently Released Earnings Announcements and 10-Ks |
| Friday, April 6, 2018 | Jeremy Bertomeu, Associate Professor of Accounting, Rady of School Management, UCSD | SFEBB 3160 | 2 – 3:20 PM | “Ghost in the Machine: Using Machine Learning to Uncover Hidden Misstatements,”with E. Cheynel, E. Floyd and T. Pan |
| Friday, April 13, 2018 | Assistant Professor, UCLA | SFEBB 3160 | 2 – 3:20 PM | Responsibility Centers, Decision Rights, and Synergies |
| Friday, April 27, 2018 | Rahul Vashishtha, Associate Professor of Accounting, Duke University | SFEBB 3160 | 2 – 3:20 PM | Bank Transparency and Deposit Flows |
| Date | Speaker | Room | Time | Links |
| Friday, April 14, 2017 | Wayne R. Landsman Kenan-Flagler Business School University of North Carolina |
SFEBB 3106 | 2 PM – 3:20 PM | Dark Trading Volume at Earnings Announcements |
| Friday, April 7th, 2017 | Hans Christensen Associate Professor of Accounting The University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
SFEBB 3106 | 2 PM – 3:20 PM | The Effects of Charge-Price Transparency Regulation on Prices in the Healthcare Industry |
| Thursday, February 9th, 2017 | Delphine Samuels – CV Job Candidate Wharton |
CRCC 205 | 2 PM – 3:20 PM | Customer monitoring of internal information processes and firms’ external reporting |
| Monday, February 6th, 2017 | Tathagat Mukhopadhyay – CV Job Candidate London Business School |
CRCC 210 | 12:30 PM – 2 PM | International Corporate Access Events and Foreign Investors’ Portfolio Decisions |
| Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 | Mario Schabus Job Candidate University of Amsterdam/University of Michigan |
CRCC 110 | 11:30 – 1 PM | |
| Monday, January 23rd, 2017 | Prasart Jongjaroenkamol – CV Job Candidate University of Texas Austin |
CRCC 110 | 12:30 PM – 2 PM | Monitoring, Incentive Contracting, and Accounting Manipulation |
| Thursday, January 19th, 2017 | Maclean (Mac) Gaulin – CV Job Candidate Rice University |
CRCC 205 | 2 PM – 3:20 PM | Risk Fact or Fiction: The information content of risk factor disclosures |
| Tuesday, Jan 10th, 2017 | Jianxin (Donny) Zhao – CV Job Candidate University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
CRCC 110 | 2 PM – 3:20 PM | The Economics of Bank Cross-Firm Selling: The Value of Borrower Board Connectedness and Opacity |
| Friday December 9, 2016 | Jennifer Blouin
Wharton |
SFEBB 3160 | 2 PM – 3:20 PM | |
| Friday, November 18, 2016 | Francis Tice
University of Colorado |
SFEBB 3160 | 2 PM – 3:20 PM | |
| Friday, October 28, 2016 | T.J. Wong
USC |
SFEBB 3160 | 2 PM – 3:20 PM | Political Bias of Corporate News: Role of Conglomeration Reform in China |
| Friday, October 21, 2016 | Carlo Gallimberti
Boston College |
SFEBB 3160 | 2 PM – 3:20 PM | |
| Friday, September 30, 2016 | Zachary Kaplan
Washington University St. Louis |
SFEBB 3160 | 2 PM – 3:20 PM | |
| Friday, September 16, 2016 | Oded Rozenbaum
George Washington University |
SFEBB 3160 | 2 PM – 3:20 PM | EBITDA and Overinvestment in Capital |
| Friday, September 9, 2016 | Rajiv Banker
Temple |
SFEBB 3160 | 2 PM – 3:20 PM |
| Date | Speaker | Room | Time | Links |
| May 2, 2016
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Xiaoli Tian
Ohio State University |
SFEBB 3106 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | The Consistency of Mandatory and Voluntary Management Earning Forecasts and Implications for Analyst and Investor Information Processing |
| April 1, 2016 | Dan Taylor
Wharton |
SFEBB 5180 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | Not Available. And will be emailed to faculty. |
| February 24, 2016 | Darren Bernard
Job Candidate University of Washington |
CRCC 210 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | Inter-Firm Information Demand* |
| February 3, 2016 | John S. Treu
Career-line Job Candidate |
CRCC 210 | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM | Unconditional Litigation Risk and Non-GAAP Reporting |
| February 2, 2016 | John Donovan
Job Candidate Washington University in St. Louis |
CRCC 205 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | The Role of Accounting Information in Equity Crowdfunding |
| January 20, 2016 | Daniele Macciocchi
Job Candidate LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome |
CRCC 210 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | The effect of family ownership on firms’ disclosure policies. |
| January 13, 2016 | Leila Peyravan | University of Toronto | CRCC 2102 PM – 3:30 PM | Financial Reporting Quality and Dual-Holding of Debt and Equity |
| January 12, 2016 | Seil Kim
New York University |
CRCC 205 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | Information disclosure and insider trading around board meetings |
| December 16, 2015 | Laura A. Wellman
Kellogg School of Management |
CRCC 210 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | MITIGATING POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY |
| December 11, 2015 | Mark Lang
UNC
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SFEBB 5130 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | The Ever-Expanding 10-K: Why are 10-Ks Getting So Much Longer (and does it matter)? |
| November 13, 2015 | Ed deHaan
Stanford |
SFEBB 5130 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | Do Weather-Induced Moods Affect the Processing of Earnings News? |
| November 6, 2015 | Shira Cohen
Temple University |
SFEBB 5130 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | “Voluntary Disclosure and Corporate Investment”. |
| October 23, 2015 | Ryan Ball
University of Michigan |
SFEBB 5130 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | Can We Automate Earnings Forecasts and Beat Analysts at Short Horizons? |
| October 9, 2015 | Robert Resutek | University of Georgia | SFEBB 51302 PM – 3:30 PM | The relationship between R&D, growth, and operating leverage |
| September 18, 2015 | Jenny (Li) Zhang
University of British Columbia |
SFEBB 5130 | 2 PM-3:30 PM | “What are the costs of admitting mistakes for foreign firms?” |
| Date | Speaker | Room | Time | Links |
| April 20, 2015 | Scott Dyreng
Duke University
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SFEBB 5160B | 2:15 PM-3:45 PM | Direct evidence on the informational properties of earning in loan contracts |
| March 17, 2015 | Atif Ellahie
London Business School |
SFEBB 5180 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | |
| March 13, 2015 | Christopher S. Armstrong
The Wharton School. University of Pennsylvania |
SFEBB 5130 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | Why do CEOs hold so much unconstrained equity? |
| February 10, 2015 | Nathan Marshall | CRCC 105 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | CV |
| February 9, 2015 | Jie Zhou | SFEBB 5180 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | Paper and CV not available online and has been sent to faculty via email. |
| February 4, 2015 | Sarah Shaikh | CRCC 105 | 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM | CV |
| February 2, 2015 | Omri Tov
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CRCC 105 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | CV Can the Bond Price Reaction to Earnings Announcements Predict Future Stock Returns? |
| January 23, 2015 | Ciao-Wei Chen | CRCC 105 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | CV |
| January 20, 2015 | Ben Lourie | CRCC105 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | CV |
| January 14, 2015 | Jordan Schoenfeld | SFEBB 130 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | |
| January 12, 2015 | Kimball Chapman | SFEBB 5180 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM | Limited Investor Attention and the Earnings Announcement Premium |
| December 12, 2014 | Dan Amiram Columbia University |
SFEBB 5130 | 2:00-3:30 pm | Financial Statement Errors: Evidence from the Distributional Properties of Financial Statement Numbers |
| November 21, 2014 | Henry Friedman
University of California Los Angeles |
SFEBB 5130 | 2:00-3:30pm | Taste, information, and asset prices: Implications for the valuation of CSR |
| October 10, 2014 | Mary Barth Stanford University |
SFEBB 5130 | 2:00-3:30pm | The JOBS Act and Information Uncertainty in IPO Firms |
| September 12, 2014 | Edward Owens
Emory University
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SFEBB 5130 | 2:00-3:30pm | The Effect of Short-Sale Constraints on Default Prediction Around the World |
| September 9, 2014 | Melissa Western
University of Utah |
SFEBB 7110 | 12:05-1:00pm | Competing Reporting Objectives and Financial Reporting Quality |
| September 5, 2014 | Francesco Bova
University of Toronto |
SFEBB 5130 | 2:00-3:30pm | Health-Insurer Bargaining Power and Firms’ Incentives to Manage Earinings |
| Date | Speaker | Room | Time | Links |
| March 20, 2014 | Scott Dyreng
Duke University |
SFEBB 5130 | 2:00-3:30 pm | |
| February 4, 2014 | Michael Dambra
University of Rochester |
SFEBB 3180 | 2:00-3:30pm | CVPaper
Schedule |
| January 29, 2014 | Terrence Blackburne
University of Pennsylvania |
SFEBB 3180 | 2:00-3:30pm | CVPaper
Schedule |
| January 15, 2014 | Kevin Koharki
Pennsylvania State University |
SFEBB 3180 | 2:00-3:30pm | CVPaper
Schedule |
| January 14, 2015 | James Moon
Florida State University |
SFEBB 3180 | 2:00-3:30pm | CVPaper
Schedule |
| December 13, 2013 | Andrew Bauer
Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
SFEBB 1170 | 2:00-3:30p | Paper
Schedule |
| November 1, 2013 | Maria Ogneva
Univ of Souther California |
SFEBB 1170 | 2:00-3:30pm | Paper
Schedule |
| October 7, 2013 | Adrienna Huffman
Univ of Utah PhD Student |
SFEBB 3180 | 2:00-3:30pm | |
| October 4, 2013 | John Campbell
University of Georgia |
SFEBB 3106 | 2:00-3:30pm | PaperSchedule |
| October 1, 2013 | Anna Elsila
Univ of Utah Visiting PhD |
SFEBB 7110(Deep Dive) | 12:00-1:00pm | |
| September 20, 2013 | Joshua WhiteSEC | SFEBB 3106 | 2:00-3:30pm | Paper
Schedule |
| September 13, 2013 | Stephen Penman
Columbia University |
SFEBB 3106 | 2:00-3:30pm | Paper
Schedule |
| September 6, 2013 | Kyle Peterson
University of Oregon |
SFEBB 3106 | 2:00-3:30pm | PaperSchedule |
| Date | Speaker | Room | Time | Links |
| August 6, 2013 | Sonke Sievers | SFE 3106 | 2:00-3:30pm | |
| November 30, 2012 | Brian Rountree
Rice University |
CRCC 215 | 2:00-3:30pm | Schedule
Paper |
| November 19, 2012 | Richard Carrizosa
University of Utah |
CRCC 215 | 2:00-3:30pm | Paper |
| November 9, 2012 | Rafael Rogo
University of British Columbia |
CRCC 215 | 2:00-3:30pm | Schedule |
| October 29, 2012 | Peter Johnson
University of Alabama |
CRCC 105 | 2:30-3:30pm | Schedule
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| October 26, 2012 | Stephen Stubben
University of North Carolina |
CRCC 215 | 2:00-3:30pm | Paper |
| October 19, 2012 | Rebecca Files
University of Texas at Dallas |
CRCC 215 | 2:00-3:30pm | Schedule
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| September 28, 2012 | Volker Laux
University of Texas at Austin |
CRCC 215 | 2:00-3:30pm | Schedule
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Beyond the Classroom
The David Eccles School of Business offers Accounting students many opportunities to become involved in opportunities beyond the classroom.
Beta Alpha Psi is a national accounting honor society and a scholastic and professional accounting co-ed fraternity. Its purpose is to recognize academic achievements in the field of accounting, to promote the study and practice of accounting, and to provide opportunities for self-development and association among members and practicing accountants.
As an IMA student member, you can learn about the accounting and financial management profession, explore your future career options and build your resume and professional network. The IMA offers student members access to many IMA membership benefits.
