PwC INQuires 2008 awards

This year we will be awarding over $395,000 to 26 researchers bringing our two year research funding total to almost $1 million.

We are pleased to congratulate the professors with winning proposals for 2008.

2008 INQuires Grant recipients Grant title
Michael Bamber, Jeremy Griffin
    University of Georgia
Venkatamaran Iyer
    University of North Carolina-     Greensboro
 An Empirical Examination of Audit Committee Members' Identification with the Organization and its Implications for Corporate Governance
Jean Bedard, Christine Earley, Kim Westermann
    Bentley College		 Apprenticeship in Professional Services Firms: Then and Now
Kirsten Cook, Thomas Omer
    Texas A&M University		 The Cost of Independence: Evidence from Firms. Decisions to Retain or Dismiss Their Auditors as Tax-Service Providers
Sanjay Gupta, Edmund Outslay, Michael Hopwood
    Michigan State University		 The Corporate and Stock Market Response to the FAS 109 Component of the Michigan Business Tax
Susan Hughes, Christopher Hodgdon
    University of Vermont		 The Effects of Auditor Choice and Audit Quality on Disclosures of Critical Judgments and Estimation Uncertainty: A Study of IFRS Firms
Karla Johnstone
    University of Wisconsin-Madison		 Disclosure of SAB 108 Adjustments: Descriptive Evidence and Implications for Corporate Governance and External Auditors
Yongtae Kim
    Santa Clara University
Myung Seok Park
    Virginia Commonwealth University		 Auditor Resignation versus Dismissal and Earnings Management through Real Activities Manipulation
Tracy Noga
    Bentley College
Anne Jones
    University of Massachusetts-     Boston		 Exploring the Implications of Specific Book-Tax Difference Components as Related to a Company’s Financial Health
Mark Riley
    Northern Illinois University
William Pasewark
    Texas Tech University		 Accounting Estimates: An Investigation of the Accuracy of Allowances Related to Bad Debt
Jaime Schmidt
    Texas A&M University		 Financial Statement Misstatements, Auditor Litigation, and Subsequent Auditor Behavior
Steven Sheetz
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and     State University
Brad Trinkle, Dave Henderson
    College of Charleston		 Understanding Perceptions of XBRL Adoption
Dechun Wang
    University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jian Zhou
    Binghamton University		 The Impact of PCAOB Auditing Standard No 5 on Audit Fees and Audit Quality