AAA Spark Meeting of Regions

Northeast / Financial Accounting and Reporting

Youree Kim, University of Connecticut

Le Emily Xu, University of New Hampshire

Avishek Bhandari, University of Wisconsin Whitewater

Juwon Jang, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

CSR Report Readability, Divergence of Analysts’ Beliefs, and Analyst Recommendations - Le Emily Xu, University of New Hampshire; Kun Yu, University of Massachusetts Boston

Financial Misconduct Spillover: Institutional Investors with Disciplinary History and Aggressive Financial Reporting - Avishek Bhandari, University of Wisconsin Whitewater; Babak Mammadov, Clemson University; Blerina Zykaj, Clemson University

The Effect of Whistleblowing on Peer Firms’ Conditional Conservatism - Fuzhao Zhou, State University of New York College at Brockport