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Recording of the First webinar “ESG Reporting Insights” in the series of webinars available

On February 16, “Master of Business Analytics“ program held the first webinar “ESG Reporting Insights” in the series of webinars “Тhe Challenges in Business Analytics”. The webinar covered  main issues and discussion topics of ESG reporting: ∙ What are the most promising recent events? ∙ Why are banks switching to ESG reports? ∙ What are the criteria for identifying best practices? Participants discussed existing frameworks, recent changes, disclosures and reporting principles. Some examples from real life…
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Organizational Memory and Bank Accounting Conservatism

In a recent study, published in the European Accounting Review (EAR), Yi Liu, Khalid Nainar and I examine the impact of banks&rsquo; organizational memory of past history on the conservatism of accounting policy. We investigate two types of bad time history: banks&rsquo; undercapitalization and the failures of other banks during financial crises. Using a large sample of U.S. banks over the period 1997&ndash;2013, we find that both types of bad times are positively related to…
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jjin
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Saints or Sinners? Politically Connected Auditors and their Audit Quality

Anastasios Elemes (ESSEC Business School),&nbsp;Jeff Zeyun Chen (Texas Christian University) Auditors&rsquo; lobbying activities were until now generally assumed to take place exclusively through audit firms&rsquo; national offices. However, our recent article, published in the European Accounting Review, questions this assumption. In our study we retrieve for the first time the contributions of all politically connected Big 4 employees to members of the Senate and House of Representatives Committees that oversee the audit industry and compile…
ANASTASIOS ELEMES
ANASTASIOS ELEMES
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Storytelling with Audit Analytics Europe

This analysis was originally posted by Audit Analytics. As the Audit Analytics Europe databases continue to grow in breadth and depth, we&nbsp;watch&nbsp;some interesting stories&nbsp;unfold.&nbsp;For example, AIM-listed&nbsp;London-based advertising agency M&amp;C Saatchi&nbsp;[LON:SAA]&nbsp;has faced a few challenges in&nbsp;the past year&nbsp;and a half.&nbsp;&nbsp; From 1 October 2020 to 7 December 2020, the Company&rsquo;s trading was suspended due to late publication of the&nbsp;December 2019 Annual Report. The delay was&nbsp;the result of an extremely costly and complex audit&nbsp;to address a significant…
Jessica McKeon
Jessica McKeon
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EAR Best paper/reviewer awards

&nbsp; European Accounting Review Announcement of Best Paper and Best Reviewer Awards &nbsp; After careful revision of all the manuscripts published in European Accounting Review in 2020, and having received the votes of both the Associate Editors and the Editorial Board members, I am delighted to announce the awards for Best Paper published during the year: &nbsp; 2020 European Accounting Review Best Paper Award “Camouflaged Indicators of Earnings Management” by Itay Kama (University of Michigan)…
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ARC Commitee
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Who Audits Public Companies – The Netherlands

This analysis was originally posted by Audit Analytics. Note:&nbsp;This analysis will be updated to reflect 2020&rsquo;s market share once all annual reports have been filed. In a previous&nbsp;blog, we noted that as of the end of 2019, there were only six audit firms licensed to audit PIEs (Public Interest Entities) in the Netherlands and we looked at the market concentration of these auditors. Here, we examine the auditor market share of Euronext Amsterdam&rsquo;s top three…
Jessica McKeon
Jessica McKeon
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Report and video: IFRS-EAA Virtual Workshop (IASB Discussion Paper “Business Combinations under Common Control”)

On 29 January 2021, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in conjunction with the European Accounting Association (EAA) and the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) held an IFRS-EAA Virtual Workshop that provide an overview of the IASB’s Business Combinations under Common Control (BCUCC) Discussion Paper (DP) and EFRAG’s developing views for consultation on that DP. Attended by roughly 200 participants, the workshop covered issues including: a) When to apply the acquisition method and a book-value method to a BCUCC in…
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Thorsten Sellhorn
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Call for papers: joint FASB/IASB/TAR conference

Call for Papers A Joint Conference of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), and The Accounting Review (TAR) Accounting for an Ever-Changing World November 2-4, 2022, New York City, NY This co-sponsored conference will provide a forum for the presentation of academic research studies that produce insights into whether the FASB and/or IASB standards on revenue recognition (Topic 606 and IFRS 15, Revenue from Contracts with Customers), leases (Topic…
DAVID VEENMAN
DAVID VEENMAN
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Series of Webinars with experts on Sustainability Issues starting at Higher School of Economics, Russia

This webinar will open the continuing series of discussions under the common title “Тhe Challenges in Business Analytics”. We are happy to announce the first webinar “ESG Reporting Insights”, during which we will look into the main issues and discussion topics of ESG reporting. What are the most promising recent events? Why are banks switching to ESG reports?  What are the criteria for identify best practices? We invite anyone who is interested to join us…
ANNA VYSOTSKAYA
ANNA VYSOTSKAYA
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Tax misperceptions – a common phenomenon in individual and corporate decision-making

Taxes are an important factor when it comes to financial decisions, such as investments, savings and financing. This applies to decisions made by private individuals as well as to decisions made in companies. It is therefore important that individuals making such decisions are aware of the actual tax burden, as misperceptions can lead to incorrect decisions and undesirable tax planning activities. A comprehensive literature review by Kay Blaufus, Malte Chirvi, Hans-Peter Huber, Ralf Maiterth and…
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