Relevant topics could include, but are not restricted to, the following areas:
• Asset pricing: theory and evidence
• Earnings quality, earnings management, and their consequences
• Economic theories of accounting and accounting-based equity valuation models
• Investment analysis, portfolio management, and portfolio performance
evaluation
• Corporate financial communication beyond financial statements
• Corporate financial decision-making (e.g. capital structure and investment
appraisal)
• Economic theories of corporate governance