Auditing - Publications - Faculty & Research

Rod Hawes and Dean Clark had time to chat before the dedication ceremony. Photo: Richard Chase Two of the Hawes grandchildren join the festivities in the Dean's House garden. Photo: Richard Chase A behind-the-scenes tour of Hawes Hall highlighted building's powerful... View Details

01 Jan 2006
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Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969

Chairman, Social Investment Task force, Bridges Community Ventures, & The Portland Trust Cofounder & Former Chairman, Apax Partners L.P. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Oxford University, 1967 M.A., Philosophy, Politics, and Economics... View Details

1994
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An Analysis of Auditor Liability Rules

By: V.G. Narayanan

Keywords: Accounting Audits

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07 Nov 2018
News

What Have You Been Up To Lately?

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

School.How do you set up an IT governance committee? A company that decides it needs board-level IT oversight must do three things: Select the appropriate members and the chairman, determine the group's relationship to the audit... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

01 Oct 1997
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Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction

Class of '99 Profile Number of applicants 7,467 Total size of class 880 September cohort 560 January cohort 320 Median age 26 Women 30% Minorities 17% International 26% Married 20% Have children 4% Undergraduate Majors Engineering and Natural Sciences 29%... View Details

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

function, however, it’s unclear what the brands should be doing with the information. “There’s an ongoing debate as to whether these audits are simply snapshots to figure out the facts on the ground so multinationals can vote with their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”

through," he said, noting that the drive for investment banking revenues on Wall Street led to conflicts of interest between those sectors. "Self-governing, particularly in the auditing process, was a disaster." Out of... View Details

Keywords: by Catherine Walsh

01 Oct 1997
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Short Takes

Green Stuff: Value, Risk, and Environmental Management Environmental issues increasingly influence companies in their approach to fundamental business concerns. How these matters play out in terms of corporate behavior is the subject of a working paper, "Environmental... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Theory & Practice

Defining Moments by Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. (Harvard Business School Press) How should you respond if you are offered an opportunity at work solely because of your race or gender? What should you do if a single parent on your staff is falling behind in his or her... View Details

2015
Working Paper

Auditor Lobbying on Accounting Standards

By: Abigail Allen, Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury

We examine how Big N auditors' changing incentives impact their comment-letter lobbying on U.S. GAAP over the first thirty-four years of the FASB (1973–2006). We examine the influence of auditors' lobbying incentives arising from three basic factors: managing expected... View Details

Keywords: Auditors; FASB; GAAP; Lobbying; Fair Value Accounting; Accounting Audits

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16 Jun 2015
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accuracy of those assessments. We analyzed nearly 17,000 code-of-conduct audits conducted at nearly 6,000 suppliers around the world. We found that audits yield fewer violations when the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Circulation statistics

Where do I find circulation figures for newspapers or periodicals? AAM - Media Intelligence Center: Audited circulation reports and publishers' statements for newspapers, consumer magazines, and B2B publications--primarily from... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Donella Rapier to Head External Relations

an audit senior manager in Boston. In that position, Rapier developed materials and conducted courses on a variety of accounting and auditing topics. This interest led in 1995 to a part-time faculty... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Apr 2012
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Watson Publication:In Effective Auditing for Corporates: Key Developments in Practice and Procedures, edited by Joe Oringel, 161-178. London: Bloomsbury Information Ltd., 2012 Abstract In the wake of the recent financial crisis,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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