2024 Botnia Accounting & Auditing Seminar
Programme
The programme will include research presentations and discussions, a keynote speech, and networking. We are honored to have two distinguished guests: the keynote speaker professor Linda Myers (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and professor Bjørn Jørgensen (Copenhagen Business School and Hanken).
Full papers accepted for presentation will have assigned discussants. A limited number of research proposals by PhD students will also be accepted for presentation at a designated research forum.
The programme will start in the morning of Monday, August 26th, and finish in the afternoon of Tuesday, August 27th. The main venue is the Original Sokos Hotel Royal Vaasa. To encourage as many as possible to participate and thanks to generous financial support from the Peter Wallenberg Foundation and Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, there is no registration fee and lunches both days will be provided. There will be a dinner on Monday, August 26th, for presenters and invited guests.
| Presenter | Affiliation | Title of presentation |
| Ali Nickpour | Aalto university | Baking and slicing the pie: The effect of compensation disparity in audit firms on audit quality |
| Aljoša Valentinčič | University of Ljubljana | Cost of Debt for Private Firms Revisited: Voluntary Audits as a Reflection of Risk |
| Anila Kiran | University of Turku | Auditor Career Stages and Client Portfolio Characteristics |
| Ankita Marwaha | Aalto university | The Emergence of Racial Sympathy: Evidence from the Stock Market Reaction to anti-Asian Sentiment during COVID-19 |
| Benita Gullkvist | University of Vaasa | The Role of Corporate Governance in Goodwill Impairment Recognition in European Listed Companies |
| Hannu Ojala | University of Eastern Finland | Examining associations between anxiety about learning accounting, achievement goals and learning outcomes |
| Henry Jarva | Hanken School of Economics | Death of a CEO’s Spouse and Firm Performance |
| Jamil Najjar | Stockholm School of Economics | Parallel societies: Firms operating in Swedish “no-go zones” |
| Jesper Haga | Hanken School of Economics | Audit adjustments and financial reporting quality in private firms |
| Jukka Sihvonen | Aalto university | Digital Frontiers: Balancing Cybersecurity Risks in the Age of Digital Transformation |
| Laura Arranz-Aperte | University of the Balearic Islands | Financial reporting quality within business groups |
| Mariya Ivanova | Stockholm School of Economics | Executive Bonus Adjustments to Industry Non-Financial Violations |
| Mikko Ranta | University of Vaasa | Understanding accruals via machine learning |
| Milda Tylaite | Stockholm School of Economics | Practical Expedients – A Valid Tool in IFRS Standard-Setting? |
| Noor Alshamma | Stockholm School of Economics | Identifying profitable value-to-price strategies: Predicting corrections with a fundamentals-based approach |
| Stefan Sundgren | Umeå university | Are unaudited firms more likely to disregard tax payments prior to bankruptcy? Small firm evidence from Sweden |
| Ting Dong | Stockholm School of Economics | Audit Materiality Judgments during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the United Kingdom |
| Victoria Clout | University of New South Wales | The high road or the low road? The information environment around backdoor market listing |
Submissions and registration
Faculty are expected to submit full papers, whereas PhD Students have the option to submit either full papers or a research proposal.
All submitted full papers will undergo blind peer review for significance, fit, and quality. Proposals should contain sufficient description of idea, research objective, intended contribution, and research design.
Full papers and PhD student proposals should be submitted as an attachment in pdf format to redovisning@hanken.fi, no later than May 19th, 2024. The first page should be a title page with author details. Early submissions are encouraged. Decisions will be sent out in the beginning of June after which registration will be possible.
Please register using this form by no later than June 28, 2024.
Travel and accomodation
Participants are responsible for their own travel expenses and accommodation. Vaasa airport is located about 9 km from the city centre and has daily flights to and from Helsinki and Stockholm. Domestic trains to and from Vaasa are more frequent (due to track work on Tuesday, August 27th, we offer a chartered minibus from Vaasa to Tampere). There is also a ferry (Wasaline) between Vaasa and Umeå (Sweden). A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the rate of 90,11 € per standard room at the Original Sokos Hotel Royal Vaasa. Please make the reservation early using the code BACC24 to take advantage of this special room rate.
Organizing committee
Dennis Sundvik (Hanken School of Economics)
Elina Haapamäki (University of Vaasa)
Jesper Haga (Hanken School of Economics)
Henrik Höglund (Hanken School of Economics)
Kim Ittonen (Hanken School of Economics)
Lasse Niemi (Aalto University)
Stefan Sundgren (Umeå University)
Tobias Svanström (Umeå University)
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