February 10, 2020

PhD candidate Jenny Wang presented her paper titled, “Man versus Machine: Complex Estimates and Auditor Reliance on Artificial Intelligence” at the Audit Mid-Year Meeting in Houston, Texas. This paper is co-authored with Benjamin Commerford, Sean Dennis (University of Central Florida), and Jennifer Joe (University of Delaware).


January 28, 2020

Brian Bratten has been invited to serve on the editorial board of Contemporary Accounting Research commencing in mid-April of 2020.


January 27, 2020

PhD candidate Valbona Sulcaj presented her paper titled “Overseeing the External Audit Function: Evidence from Audit Committees’ Reported Activities” at the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. The paper is co-authored with Brian Bratten and Monika Causholli.


January 27, 2020

Brian Bratten’s paper titled, “On the Informativeness of Unexpected Exclusions from Street Earnings” was selected by the editors as one of three papers to be presented at the Plenary Session at the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. The paper is co-authored with Stephannie Larocque (Mendoza College of Business) and Teri Yohn (Kellogg School of Management). 


November 18, 2019

Monika Causholli presented her paper titled, “The Role of Assurance in Equity Crowdfunding” at the University of Kansas. The paper is co-authored with Gatton PhD student Evisa Bogdani and Robert Knechel, the University of Florida.


November 14, 2019

PhD student Chris Pearson’s paper (co-authored with Sean Dennis and Brian Goodson) titled, “Online Worker Fraud and Evolving Threats to the Integrity of MTurk Data: A Discussion of Virtual Private Servers and the Limitations of IP-Based Screening Procedures,” has been accepted for publication in Behavioral Research in Accounting.


November 08, 2019

Brian Bratten presented his paper (co-authored with Stephannie Larocque and Teri Yohn), "On the Informativeness of Unexpected Exclusions from Street Earnings" at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, on November 6, 2019.


October 21, 2019

Assistant professor Ben Commerford (second from right) traveled to Washington D.C. this week with his research colleagues to present their paper at the PCAOB Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets. The research that he presented investigates how auditors rely on artificial intelligence when auditing complex accounting estimates. The coauthor team includes Jenny Wang, a current Ph.D.


September 09, 2019

Monika Causholli presented her paper titled, “Accounting Firm Size and Culture: An Institutional Theory Perspective” at the European Auditing Network Conference held in Parma, Italy. The paper is co-authored with Aleksandra Zimmerman at Florida State University and Candice Hux at Northern Illinois University.


August 16, 2019

Hong Xie’s paper (co-authored with Xiaohua Fang, Le Hua, and Jeffrey Pittman), “CEO Sensation Seeking and Accounting Conservatism” was presented at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California on August 13, 2019.