The Department of Accounting at Iowa State University hosts periodic research seminars and invites top scholars in accounting as our guest speakers to present their research. The seminar series provides a forum for faculty members, graduate students, and invited guest speakers to present and discuss cutting-edge research in all areas of accounting.

For more information about our speakers series, contact Olena Watanabe.

Spring 2025

Aleksandra (Ally) Zimmerman
Associate professor of accounting
Florida State University
Room 3164 Gerdin, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
March 28, 2025

Matthew Beck
Associate professor of accounting
University of Kansas
Room 3164 Gerdin, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
April 25, 2025

Anup Srivastava
Professor of accounting, Canada research chair
Haskayne  School of Business, University of Calgary
Room 2446 Gerdin, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
May 9, 2025

Speaker archives

Shawn Huang
Associate professor of accountancy
W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
Room 2446 Gerdin, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
September 6, 2024

Gus De Franco
Emanuel T. Weiler Professor of Management
Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University
Room 3164 Gerdin, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
September 27, 2024

Kristi Rennekamp
Professor of accounting, Financial Judgements Research Group, co-director
SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University
Room 2446 Gerdin, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
November 22, 2024

Dain Donelson, University of Iowa
“Does antitrust enforcement against interlocking directorates impair corporate governance?”

Baohua Xin, University of Toronto
“Adverse Selection of Short Selling: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.”

Dave Farber, Indiana University
“Liquidity Risk, Accounting Quality and Rewards for Beating Expectations During Periods of High Macroeconomic Uncertainty”

Zac Wiebe, University of Arkansas
“The Determinants and Informativeness of Banks’ Return on Tangible Common Equity Disclosures”

John X. Jiang, Michigan State University
“Inferring Quality of U.S. Audit Partners from Their Houses”

Dechung Wang, Texas A&M University
“Does Auditor Individualism Reduce Financial Reporting Comparability? Evidence from Audit Partner Individualism in the U.S.”

Jamie Schmidt, University of Texas at Austin
“Does assurance improve the quality and value relevance of non-GAAP earnings?”

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Department of Accounting

Ivy College of Business
2330 Gerdin Business Building
2167 Union Drive
Ames, Iowa 50011

Dirk Black

Chair, Department of Accounting
Donna J. Fuller Accounting Professor
Professor of accounting
dirkb@iastate.edu

Jennifer Finch