Finance and Accounting Group News and Events
Latest group news
- Accreditation for ICAEW»
- Accreditation for ACCA»
- PhD Student Success»
- 2011-12 Annual Award for Teaching Excellence in Accounting and Finance»
- Undergraduate Student Success»
- Review of new and amended international accounting standards»
- Surrey obtains CIMA accreditation»
- The Economist looks at Surrey research»
Research seminars
The finance and accounting research seminars take place on a weekly basis during term time. They are a mix of external and internal speakers and are open to students, faculty and people outside the university. For more information on these seminars please contact Professor Sarmistha Pal.
Conference presentations
Presentations given by group members at international conferences during 2011-2012.
| Date | Speaker | Title and Conference |
|---|---|---|
| 27-30 Jun 2012 | Dr Dimitrios Gounopoulos | IPOs vs Listings: An Empirical Perspective European Financial Management Conference (EFMA), Barcelona |
| 26-29 Jun 2012 | Dr Monomita Nandy | Do banks value the eco-friendliness of firms' in their corporate lending decisions? Some empirical evidence International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM), Limerick |
| 24-27 Jun 2012 | Dr Sam Agyei-Ampomah | The foreign exchange exposure of UK non-financial firms Multinational Finance Society Conference, Kraków |
| 21-22 Jun 2012 | Dr Elina Varoutsa | Trust and control building in evolving inter-organisational relationships: Evidence from the aerospace industry Global Management Accounting Research Symposium (GMARS), Copenhagen |
| 21-22 Jun 2012 | Professor Dimitris Petmezas | Do Stock-Financed M&As Destroy Value? New Methods and Evidence Financial Management Association (FMA) Europe Conference, Istanbul |
| 18-20 Jun 2012 | Professor Sarmistha Pal | Does corporate governance reform necessarily boost firm performance? Recent evidence from Russia International Banking and Finance Society (IFABS) meeting, Valencia |
| 18-20 Jun 2012 | Dr Julinda Nuri | The Effect of Asset Securitization on Credit Risk: Evidence from the UK International Banking and Finance Society (IFABS) meeting, Valencia |
| 07-08 June 2012 | Nick Karampatsas & Professor Dimitris Petmezas | Valuation Effects of Credit Ratings in Mergers and Acquisitions International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS) |
| 09-11 May 2012 | Dr Elina Varoutsa | Trust and control building in evolving inter-organisational relationships: Evidence from the aerospace industry European Accounting Association (EAA) Conference, Ljubljana |
| 09-11 May 2012 | Dr Dimitrios Gounopoulos | Earnings Forecasts before and after IFRS adoption: Evidence from Australian IPOs European Accounting Association (EAA) Conference, Ljubljana |
| 09-11 May 2012 | Dr Monomita Nandy | How does environmental rating impact the preference of earnings management for US firms before and after SOX? European Accounting Association (EAA) Conference, Ljubljana |
| 17-19 April 2012 | Dr Monomita Nandy | Do banks value the eco-friendliness of firms British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA), Brighton |
| 12-14 April 2012 | Dr Andrew Mason | Complementary or Contradictory? Combining Returns Based & Characteristics Investment Style Analysis European Financial Management (EFM) Symposium on Asset Management, Hamburg |
| 22-25 February 2012 | Professor Paul Guest | The Determinants of Capital Structure in an Islamic Financial System Mid-West Finance Association, New Orleans |
| 03-05 January 2012 | Professor Sarmistha Pal | Bridging the Gap? Institution and Foreign Ownership American Economic Association and American Finance Association Meetings, Chicago |
| 20-22 October 2011 | Dr Christos Mavis | How Have M&As Changed? Evidence from the Sixth Merger Wave Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, Denver |
| 16-18 Sep 2011 | Dr Christos Mavis | How Have M&As Changed? Evidence from the Sixth Merger Wave Northern Finance Association, Vancouver |