Fall 2024

August 23

Matt Ege, Texas A&M University
Dr. Ege’s research interests include how auditors, audit committees, and regulators improve audit and financial reporting quality.

September 13
Abbie Sadler, University of Richmond
Oklahoma State Ph.D. Alumni
Dr. Sadler’s research interests include the overlap of financial accounting and corporate taxation, earnings management, pension accounting and investment decisions, and financial reporting quality.

October 11
Kristin Stack, Kansas University
Dr. Stack’s research interests include corporate governance, financial misreporting, executive compensation, top management team characteristics and performance, and enterprise risk management.

 

October 18

Tom Lopez, University of Alabama 

Dr. Lopez examines analyst forecast, corporate restructurings and executive compensation.

November 8

Stacie Kelley, University of Wisconsin
Dr. Kelley is particularly interested in information related to tax reporting that is reflected in firms’ publicly available financial statements and what the information reveals about the firm’s tax-planning strategies, as well as how the market uses or values that information.

 

November 15
Robert Pawlewicz, University of Richmond
Dr. Pawlewicz’s research interests include the markets for audit and non-audit services, the effect of regulation on audit quality, and audit reports. His current research projects focus on auditor-client misalignment, the quality of ESG disclosures for newly public firms, and the consequences of going concern modification errors.

 

Spring 2025

To be announced.