This paper presents a social media-based assignment that was utilized in both introductory and advanced managerial accounting courses at the undergraduate level. For the assignment, students used Pinterest to share Internet-based resources with fellow members of their class. The students were...

Using information accompanying the audit committee (AC) member voting recommendations of a proxy advisory service, we examine the circumstances that condition when and why ineffective AC members experience subsequent turnover from the board of directors. We broadly classify the sources of...

This article is the first to examine financial restatements by Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). We provide a descriptive breakdown of the underlying causes of REIT restatements as well as overall and subsample analyses of stock market reactions to restatements from 2000 to 2011. REIT...

Motivated by evidence from the empirical accounting and finance literatures suggesting that short sellers target firms with suspect financial reporting, we investigate whether short interest provides a signal of the degree of audit risk. We find a positive association between audit fees and...