Sustainability Reporting: Frontstage, Backstage, Façades and Hypocrisy

This blog summarizes the recent talk I recently delivered as part of the York University President's Sustainability...

Introductory Guide to Using Stata in Empirical Financial Accounting Research: new version (May 2019)

For the latest version (May 2019) of my Stata guide ("Introductory Guide to Using Stata in Empirical Financial Accounting Research"), please see...

National Tax Association Conference

NTA Call for Papers: June 1 Submission Deadline

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EAA Corporate Reporting Committee

With the new EAA Corporate Reporting Committee (CRC), the association wants to actively participate in debates about how companies can and should inform the wide variety of stakeholders about their activities and their impact on society in...

Classroom Experiments with Real-Time Results Presentation

Classroom experiments are a great way to communicate insights and R/shiny is a fantastic tool to develop interactive data displays. Linking the two together, you can build a unique experience for your students! Recently, I used a shiny app to run...

How to keep your projects organized, part 1: folder structure

Everyone is familiar with the importance of delivering a paper that is written in a clean and organized way. However, the same thing can often not be said about the way that we organize and maintain the code and data used in the backend (i.e....

EAA Awards – Recipients Announced for 2018-2019

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Extension of deadline for submission of IASB 2019 research forum papers to JIAR

The 2019 IASB research forum is being held in conjunction with the Journal of International Accounting Research on 28-29 October in Short Hills, New Jersey, US.  ...

Getting started with Python for Accounting Research

The Python programming language is a very powerful tool to have in your toolkit as an Accounting researcher. Python is the data science equivalent of a Swiss army knife as it can be used to solve a wide variety of problems: data gathering, web...

The consequences of disclosing key audit matters (KAMs): A review of the academic literature

In this recently published paper, Melina Heilman (Technische Universität Dortmund) and I review the emerging body of academic research which examines the effects of KAM disclosures in the auditor...