- Social Responsibility Does Not Mitigate Negative Market Response Due to Crisis, New Study Finds
Clients of the major accounting firm Arthur Anderson sustained negative stock-market returns following public announcement that the firm had shredded documents related to its infamous Enron audit in 2002.
Release Date: 5/14/2009
- Business Week Ranks Walton College Accounting in Top 20 Public Programs
Business Week has ranked the accounting specialty at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas in a tie for 19th place among the top public undergraduate business schools.
Release Date: 5/7/2009
- Walton College Students Take Five Governor's Cup Awards
Graduate students in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas were rewarded for their Tears of Life business plan.
Release Date: 4/30/2009
- Company Reputation Associated With Higher Quality of Financial Reporting, Study Finds
In the first academic study to examine of the relationship between company reputation and financial-reporting quality, an accounting researcher found that high-reputation companies are less likely to produce low-quality financial statements.
Release Date: 3/3/2009
- Accounting Study Reveals Firms' Failure to Disclose Environmental Sanctions
A University of Arkansas accounting researcher studied corporations with large environmental sanctions over a 10-year period and found that 72 percent of the companies failed to disclose that information to the Securities and Exchange Commission as required by law.
Release Date: 2/17/2009
- Chief Financial Officers of Earnings - Restatement Firms Experience Higher Turnover, Study Finds
Accounting researchers have found higher turnover rates and severe labor-market penalties for chief financial officers of so-called restatement firms compared to a control group of similar firms.
Release Date: 5/27/2008
- IT Budget Levels Connected to Performance and Shareholder Returns, Study Finds
In 1978 information-technology expenditures accounted for only five percent of firms' fixed investments, but by 2005, that figure had risen to 22 percent, for a total of $283 billion.
Release Date: 5/13/2008
- Walton College to Honor Outstanding Alumni, Students, Faculty and Staff
The Sam M. Walton College of Business will hold its 15th annual awards banquet on Thursday, April 17, at the Holiday Inn in Springdale.
Release Date: 4/17/2008
- Accounting Professor Appointed to Influential National Council
Carolyn M. Callahan, holder of the Doris M. Cook Chair in Accounting has been elected as one of the two new faculty members nationally to represent the academic community on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council.
Release Date: 2/1/2008
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