Accounting and Finance seminars and workshops
We run a regular programme of seminars and workshops to discuss a wide range of exciting and topical issues in accounting and finance.
Speakers include both invited guests and members of staff. Our seminars are held on Wednesdays in the Postgraduate Teaching Centre (PTC) unless otherwise stated. The seminars are open for staff, students and the wider public.
For further information, please contact our Accounting and Finance research seminar organising team:
Seminar series 2024-25
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title of presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/01/25 | 13:15-14:15 | Dr Quoc Tuan Ho, University of Bristol | Conflicting or complementary? The influence of politicians’ incentives to meet and beat expectations in economic performance on corporate environmental performance |
| 22/01/25 | 13:15-14:15 | Professor Mark Freeman, University of York | An incentives-based theory of greenwashing and environmental reporting regulations |
| 05/02/25 | 11:00-12:00 | Dr Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, London School of Economics and Political Science | Startup Employees’ Career Paths: Evidence from Business Accelerators |
| 19/02/25 | 13:15-14:15 | Professor Qingwei Wang, Cardiff University | The Impact of Industrial Policy on Capacity Overhang: Evidence Based on Machine Learning |
| 12/03/25 | 13:15-14:15 | Professor Danny McGowan, Durham University | The Value of Diversity: Evidence from the Housing Market |
| 19/03/25 | 13:15-14:15 | Dr Xia Shu, Cardiff University | Arriving at the End of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Contractual Journey: Is Scotland Ready? |
| 26/03/25 | 13:15-14:15 | Professor Ian Thomson, University of Dundee | Sustainability accounting for interconnectivity: Addressing a critical methodological challenge |
| 09/04/25 | 13:15-14:15 | Dr Galina Goncharenko, Aston University | Accounting for a contemporary workplace: Employer and employee discourses and the Self |
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title of presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
02/10/24 | 11:00 -12:00 | Professor Gilles Chemla, Imperial College London | AI adoption, incentives, and market outcomes |
09/10/24 | 13:15-14:15 | Dr Jiaman Xu, Cardiff University | Empowering Private Firms: Private Equity Buyout and Trade Credit Provision |
| 13/11/24 | 13:15-14:15 | Professor Amanze Ejiogu, Sheffield Hallam University | Accounting and Segregated Housing in England: A study of the ‘poor door’ phenomenon |
| 20/11/24 | 13:15-14:15 | Dr Hussein Halabi, Cardiff University | Employee Ownership and Goodwill Impairment: European Evidence |
27/11/24 | 13:30-14:30 | Dr Vogy Buanaputra, Cardiff University | Local Government Budgeting Practices in a Traditional Context |
| 11/12/24 | 13:15-14:15 | Dr Barbara Voss, The University of Sheffield | Accountability of oneself: An emotional piece from a queer person in the accounting profession |
Seminar series 2023-24
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title of presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/01/24 | 12:30-13:00 | Weiwei Guo, Cardiff Business School | The Impact of Bitcoin On-chain and Off-chain Factors on Market Efficiency |
| 13:00-14:30 | Professor Brian Lucey, Trinity College Dublin | ESG : Who is doing it, what are they doing and where is it going? | |
| 24/01/24 | 13:00-13:30 | Gareth Chapman, Cardiff Business School | Addressing the concern for biodiversity within the Madagascan mining sector |
| 13:30-15:00 | Professor Mark Clatworthy, University of Bristol | Revisiting Fair Value Accounting and Debt Contracting | |
| 07/02/24 | 12:30-13:00 | Kefu Liao, Cardiff Business School | Asymmetric jump variation estimation for drift diffusion process and its implications for volatility forecasting |
| 13:00-14:30 | Professor Ingmar Nolte, University of Lancaster | Nonparametric Range-Based Estimation of Intergrated Variance with Episodic Extreme Return Persistence | |
| 23/02/24 | 10:00-12:00 | Professor Lee Parker, University of Glasgow | People, Projects and Writing: Managing the Maze |
| 06/03/24 | 12:30-13:00 | Cong Wang, Cardiff Business School | Propagation of ESG-Linked Compensation through Boardroom Connections |
| 13:00-14:30 | Professor Ning Gao, University of Manchester | Renewable Energy Transition and the Value of Cash | |
| 20/03/24 | 12:30-13:00 | Dr Ivana Rozic, Cardiff Business School | Do ownership characteristics make a difference? Ownership structure and the quality of reported earnings in the UK’s private firms |
| 13:00-14:30 | Associate Professor Federica Doni, University of Milano Bicocca | The state of biodiversity reporting in Europe | |
| 17/04/24 | 12:30-13:00 | Dr Dudley Gilder, Cardiff University | Refining crude oil uncertainty using corridor variance risk premia |
| 13:00-14:30 | Dr Fangming Xu, University of Bristol | Navigating Environmental Regulations through M&As | |
| 01/05/24 | 10:00-10:30 | Miao Miao, Cardiff Business School | The Lingering Specter of Taylorism and the Resulting Alienation it Engenders |
| 10:30-12:00 | Professor Helen Tregidga, Royal Holloway, University of London | Accounting for Time: The Environmental Crisis and the Crisis of Corporate (In)Action | |
| 29/05/24 | 12:30-14:00 | Professor Steward Smyth, University College Cork, Cork University Business School | Financial information engendering trust in social partnership |
| 05/06/24 | 13:00-14:30 | Dr Adriana K Korczak, University of Bristol | The Impact of Mandatory Closed Periods on Corporate Insider Trading |
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title of presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
11/10/23 | 13:00-14:30 | Dr Matthew Egan, University of Sydney | Fostering evolving supply chain sustainability management practices in Australia’s water sector, through standardised technique and emergent metis |
18/10/23 | 13:00-14:30 | Professor Nick Taylor, University of Bristol | Portfolio return prediction and risk price heterogeneity |
01/11/23 | 13:00-14:30 | Professor Vicky Kiosse, University of Exeter | Swimming in the Shark Tank: Charisma and angel investors (Online only) |
15/11/23 | 12:30-13:00 | Kefu Lia, Cardiff Business School | Co-drift bursts |
13:00-14:30 | Professor Amedeo De Cesari, University of Manchester | Outside Employment Opportunities and Tournament Incentives | |
29/11/23 | 12:30-13:00 | Professor Jill Atkins, Cardiff Business School | Accounting and Accountability for Rewilding, De-extinction and Biodiversity Protection" - Call for papers for special issue on Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal |
13:00-14:30 | Professor Adam Leaver, University of Sheffield | Re-Territorializing Carbon: How oil companies define their corporate boundaries to avoid booking emissions | |
13/12/23 | 10:00-11:30 | Professor Dimitrios Gounopoulos, University of Bath | The Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Real Estate Market |
