Nordic Accounting Research Network

GSA/KATAJA Course on Advanced Financial Statement Analysis,
August 4-6, 2008
Prof. Eli Amir
London Business School, London, United Kingdom

The course on Advanced Financial Statement Analysis will be held this year at the University of Oulu, 4-6 August. The teacher will be Prof. Eli Amir from London Business School. Students for the course will be selected in the order of registration, but the deadline for the registration is 31 May. Registrations should be done via e-mail to Prof. Juha-Pekka Kallunki (juha-pekka.kallunki@oulu.fi).

Course objective:

To familiarize the students in recent theoretical and empirical developments in financial statement analysis, covering the following main topics:
• Earnings and security prices
• Valuation-relevant information beyond earnings
• Valuation
• Accounting Choice
• Pension asset management
• Accounting Conservatism
• Earnings management

Classes:
From Monday, August 4 to Wednesday, August 6 at 9:00 – 16:00 at the University of Oulu, Oulu, Linnanmaa Campus Area, Room TA335 (Department of Accounting and Finance).

Exam:
An exam date will be confirmed during the course. The exam is closed-book. The exam questions will be sent (and the answers returned) via e-mail, thus the students need not come to the University of Oulu for the exam.

Course requirements:
Pre-course preparation according to separate instructions.
Active class participation + exam, 4 ECTS units.

Term paper instructions:
• Term paper is optional, 2 additional ECTS units.
• Term papers should be written by small groups of 2-3 students, the groups being formed by the students themselves.
• The authoring groups can choose any sensible topic that somehow deals with the preparation or use of financial statement information.
• The paper can be a literature review of a specific area, a theoretical development of a specific idea, or an empirical paper testing one or more hypotheses on defined phenomena.
• Students wishing to write a term paper should write their names and the preliminary topic of their paper on a separate list that will be distributed in the beginning of the course.
• The deadline for the term paper submission is 31 August 2008. The paper should be sent via email attachment preferably in pdf-format.

The first Nordic doctorial colloquium in accounting and auditing will be held September, 26 2008 at Örebro University.

Doctoral students are invited to present their research projects at the seminarar where feedback will be provided by fellow students and senior researchers. “We want to give doctoral candidates in accounting this opportunity to present their projects at an intense seminar with qualified participants. The theme of the colloquium is reflection and inspiration and the colloquium is intended as a stepping stone for future research.”

Applicant who wish to present their research are asked to submit a written presentation by September 1 to agneta.gustafson@oru.se or Agneta Gustafson, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet, 701 82 Örebro.

(If the number of applicants will be greater than faculty capacity, a selection based upon written papers will be made.)

The conference (link in Swedish)