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It’s (rookie) recruiting season, and thus, letter writing season, too

Being on the receiving end of recruitment for accounting candidates, I have seen some exemplar letters from advisors and additional letter writers. But the experience is uneven. I have seen the accounting letters improve over the years, but there is still quite some variance. Variance in letter content of course is to be expected, and informative; but not quite in the approach and the expectations of what a value-added letter writing exercise should aim to…
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What does a Professor of Accounting do?

Main points: The role of accounting academics in driving change in practice and policy has lacked visibility Academics have critical thinking skills of value to the profession, business and policy makers When people ask me what I do for a living, I wonder what they imagine it involves.  Do they think of Professors as people who don’t/can’t practice and accountants as people who do tax returns and read balance sheets?  Professors are change agents in…
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Wishes from the ARC Team

  Dear members, partners, and friends  It's been a pleasure to work with you this year!   On behalf of the ARC team,    Our warmest wishes for a Happy Holiday Season and a Wonderful New Year!     See you all in 2019!
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Launch of the EAA ARC International PhD Visit Scheme

This November we launched the new EAA ARC PhD International Visit Scheme. The scheme provides opportunities for PhD students who are EAA members to visit a leading European accounting research department. The visits aim to help students to advance their PhD research in ways that may not be possible in their home institution. Many students have participated in international PhD exchange visits on an ad hoc basis. However, it has not always been easy to find…
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The EAA Corporate Reporting Committee Initiative - Call for nominations

  In July 2018, the EAA invited expressions of interest in attending a workshop to create a Corporate Reporting Committee (CRC). With a focus on ‘wider corporate reporting’ – alternatively, integrated, nonfinancial, ESG or sustainability reporting – the EAA envisages that the CRC will sit alongside, and complement, the existing Financial Reporting Standards Committee (FRSC) in bringing contributions of academic research to the standard-setting process. With this purpose, I chaired an EAA-hosted workshop, held at the…
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Customer Accounting. Creating value with customer analytics

This blog is coauthored with Massimiliano Bonacchi   In recent years, several firms have witnessed a period of transformative developments that emphasize the central role of customers in all industries. Consumers hold far more power than ever before in today’s ultracompetitive and fast evolving business landscape as suggested by a recent Forrester report. The transition from a product-centric, transaction-focused business model to a more relationship-oriented or customer-centric view appears as a necessary condition to sustain…
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Investors: why SDGs are the new black

This blog has been co-authored with George MARGESSON, MPA programme at Sciences Po Paris   The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are turning the investment world upside down. According to an analyst “For me, the SDGs really correspond to a paradigm shift in responsible finance right now, turning to impact actually”. To understand how this shift is happening, we analysed the products currently offered by leading investment managers, and the published requirements of investment funds. We carried…
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Qualitative Research Methods in Business and Accounting

In an exciting development, a purpose-built qualitative research methods colloquium is to be held in Singapore on 14 and 15 March 2019. The 10th Asia-Australia Colloquium on Qualitative Research Methods in Business and Accounting will take the highly successful colloquium from Australia and Europe to its inaugural offering in Asia. Our aim is to promote qualitative research methods among colleagues and students and to encourage them to publish their work with rich, surprising and meaningful…
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If all you have is a hammer... natural language processing in financial markets

The amount of corporate information is increasing exponentially and most of it is non-numerical data, such as texts, images and video. Regulatory innovations in the area of financial and non-financial reporting require corporations to provide rich information not only on their financial activities but also on their corporate governance, as well as their environmental and their social activities. Information provided by financial analysts, the media but also by users of social networks add to the…
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How to transfer research from audit faculty to standard setters and regulators: The Video version

How to transfer research from audit faculty to standard setters and regulators: The Video version I want to thank my research colleagues, Kris Hoang at the University of Alabama, Yi Luo at Queen’s University and Jim Sylph formerly of the International Federation of Accountants and the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board for their efforts on this project.  In particular, Kris Hoang lead the development of the video and presented the project at the Illinois Audit…