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Tyler Kleppe's paper, “Retail shareholders and the efficacy of proxy voting: evidence from auditor ratification,” was accepted for publication in Review of Accounting Studies. The paper is co-authored with Cory Cassell and Jonathan Shipman, both from the University of Arkansas.


Michael (Chuancai) Zhang, (Gatton/VASOC) Ph.D.


DENVER (August 3, 2022) – The Financial Planning Association® (FPA®) is pleased to announce Greg Geisler, Ph.D., J. William “Bill” Harden, Ph.D., CPA, ChFC, and David S.


Tyler Kleppe's paper, "PCAOB Inspections, Knowledge Diffusion, and Corporate Tax Planning Effectiveness" was recently accepted for presentation at multiple highly-competitive research conferences, including the 2022 Deloitte/University of Kansas Auditing Symposium and the 12th EIASM Conference on Current Research in


Tyler Kleppe, Assistant Professor, was recently named to the Editorial Board of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (AJPT). The journal is published by the American Accounting Association and contributes to improving the practice and theory of auditing.


Sung-Yuan (Mark) Cheng and Sohee Kim both presented papers at the 2022 Annual Meeting of American Accounting Association in San Diego, California.  


Ben Commerford, Arthur Andersen Associate Professor of Accounting, received The Accounting Review (TAR) Outstanding Reviewer Award at the 2022 American Accounting Association (AAA) annual meeting.


Ben Commerford's paper, "Management’s Reporting Motives and the Leniency of Auditors’ Internal Control Evaluations: The Role of Organizational Identification and Auditor-type," has been accepted for publication in The Accounting Review. The paper is coauthored with


LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 22, 2022) — Six of the University of Kentucky's passionate and accomplished educators were surprised earlier this spring by student nominators and the UK Alumni Association as 2022 Great Teacher Award recipients.

Olivia Davis, lecturer in the Gatton College of Business and Economics, is one of the distinguished Great Teacher Award recipients who strives to help her students discover their passions.


The Gatton College of Business and Economics is proud to announce the recipients at the annual Faculty Awards Day. This event recognizes those faculty who have received awards for outstanding teaching and research along with recognizing those faculty who have received university awards. 

(L-R) Jack Kirn, Mikhail Wolfson, Susan Zhu, Walter Ferrier and Dan Halgin