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How to create eye-candy graphs with python

Having attended many presentations over the years, I started noticing that tables are such a drag. Unfortunately, we are used to a presentation format that makes us want to show tables. Why? Quite often presenters only reveal the parts of a table that support their story. So, when was the last time you saw a row with low R-squares? And the coefficients? Right, these often join stars. Presenters often rely on animated circles and boxes…
MARTIEN LUBBERINK
MARTIEN LUBBERINK
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Richard Victor Alvarus Mattessich 1922-2019

Richard Mattessich (known by many as Ricco) was born on August 9, 1922 in Trieste, and died on September 30, 2019 in Vancouver. Trieste had just been annexed by Italy after the dissolution of Austro-Hungarian Empire. He grew up in Vienna, and in 1940 he graduated as a Mechanical Engineer (a secondary school degree). In 1944 he completed his studies summa cum laude as a Diplom-Kaufmann (a graduate in business) from the Hochschule für Welthandel,…
STEPHEN ZEFF
STEPHEN ZEFF
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Accounting’s ‘sins of omission’: ‘hard’ methods or ‘soft’ stories?

Economics has committed ‘sins of omission’, George Akerlof (2019), the Nobel Prize winning economist, claims in a recent article.  In a damning critique Akerlof argues that economists commonly avoid important issues in society, including financial crises and climate change, because of an institutionalized bias in favour of ‘hard’ (‘scientific’) methods and against the ‘soft’.  While conceding that hard methods, such as econometrics, have their place, Akerlof calls for serious attention to the soft methods, long…
Alice Bryer
Alice Bryer
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What Can We Learn About CAMs from KAMs?

This analysis was originally posted by Audit Analytics.  In the United States, audit firms of large accelerated filers with fiscal years ending on or after June 30, 2019 are required to disclose Critical Audit Matters (CAMs) in their audit reports.  For 53 of these large accelerated filers that are also listed on European exchanges, Key Audit Matters (KAMs) have already been required across Europe for over a year and a half. Though both matters have complex…
Jessica McKeon
Jessica McKeon
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Annual LSE Auditor Changes

This analysis was originally posted by Audit Analytics.  There were 141 audit firm departures in 2018 from companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, including the Alternative Investment Market (AIM). BDO, with a net of 20 new audit clients, accounts for the most new clients among all audit firms for LSE-listed companies in 2018. Overall, for the Big Four and Global & National Firms in 2018, there were 119 audit client gains and 114 audit client…
Jessica McKeon
Jessica McKeon
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JBFA 2020 Capital Markets Conference

The Journal of Business Finance and Accounting (JBFA) Capital Markets Conference (CMC) is one of the longest established conferences in Europe. The 27th Conference will be held 20-22 May 2020 at the new SDA Bocconi campus, Bocconi University, in Milan, Italy. The origins of the CMC can be traced back to 1991, when Martin Walker and I organized a conference hosted by University of Manchester as part of an ESRC-funded research project. Papers from that conference…
Peter Pope
Peter Pope
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Book review: The Routledge companion to qualitative accounting research methods

I am pleased to write this article to review the book entitled ‘The Routledge companion to qualitative accounting research methods’. While the use of qualitative research method and interpretive methodology in the accounting discipline continue to grow over the past several decades, there is still a lack of a comprehensive compilation of the main topics in this area. The book in question aims to fills this void by covering four broad themes: worldview and paradigms;…
Di Wang
Di Wang
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EAA membership survey 2019

Dear EAA member You should have received an e-mail with a link to an online questionnaire to elicit your views and opinions on a number of issues facing the EAA. To boost your motivation, the survey features a nice incentive. Look out!     If by any chance you have not received it, please check your spam folders.     The ARC team
ARC Commitee
ARC Commitee
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Auditor Social Capital and Auditor Compensation

In a recently published paper, Nieves Carrera, Marco Trombetta, and I examine whether auditor social and human capital are associated with auditor compensation in a market dominated by a large number of small and medium private clients and small suppliers. &nbsp;Private companies demand audit quality to mitigate agency conflicts, to satisfy contractual constraints imposed by creditors, to support managers&rsquo; decisions, and to obtain business advice in order to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness (Vanstraelen &amp;…
PIETRO ANDREA BIANCHI
PIETRO ANDREA BIANCHI
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EAA JOB MARKET FOR ACCOUNTING ACADEMICS

TALENT WORKSHOP EAA JOB MARKET FOR ACCOUNTING ACADEMICS (Madrid. November 8-9, 2019) Building Bridges between Young Talent and Academic Institutions https://eaa-jobmarket.ie.edu/ Institutions of higher learning witness increasing mobility of PhD students and faculty. Combining the strengths of the web and face-to-face initiatives, the Management Committee of the EAA agreed to launch the fifth edition of its job market, a Talent Workshop, for accounting academics. Testimonials: CRISTINA GRANDE (TW 2018, PHD FROM UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID,…
SALVADOR CARMONA
SALVADOR CARMONA
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