Accounting
Faculty Spotlight
During the past decade the integrity and values of accountants, boards of directors and financial executives have been closely scrutinized by the media and investment community. Professor Don Giacomino Has examined these issues for several years.
Recent Accounting Faculty Publications
Akers, Michael and Don Giacomino, “Goodwill and Goodwill Write-downs: Their Effects on Earnings Quality for 2008 and 2009” Journal of Business and Economics Research, Vol. 7, No 11 (November 2009), pp. 9-18.
Akers, Michael, Don Giacomino and John Wall, “Testing the Financial Literacy and Expertise of Audit Committee Members” The CPA Journal, (August 2009), pp. 66-71.
Akers, Michael, John Wall, and Don Giacomino, “Revisiting Financial (Accounting) Literacy: A Comparison of Audit Committee Members and Business Students” American Journal of Business Education, Vol. 2, No. 3 (May/June 2009), pp. 31-38.
Akers, Michael, Sean Goins and Don Giacomino, “Applying Sarbanes-Oxley Principles to Universities and Colleges” The CPA Journal, (April 2009), pp. 62-67.
Akers, Michael, Qianhua Ling, John Wall, and Don Giacomino, “An Examination of The Use of The Board Balanced Scorecard by Large Public Corporations” Review of Business Information Systems, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Second Quarter 2009), pp. 41-49.
Akers, Michael and Bina Menon, “International Perception of Corruption” Review of Business Information Systems, Vol. 13, No. 1(First Quarter-2009), pp. 25-39.
Giacomino, Don, Fang Hu and Sixian Yang, “The Influence of Foreign Operations and Their Disclosure on Earnings Quality" International and Business and Economics Journal, forthcoming.
Janvrin, D. and Maureen Mascha, “The Process of Creating XBRL Instance Documents: A Research Framework” Review of Business Information Systems: vol. 14, no. 2, forthcoming.
Mascha, Maureen, J. W. Harden and James Trebby, “The Effect of Carbon Credits on Accounting and Tax Transactions” The CPA Journal, January 2009, pp. 42-47.
Mascha, Maureen, D. Janvrin, B. Kruger and J. Plouff, “A Comparison of XBRL Software for Small to Mid-sized Firms” Strategic Finance, January 2009, pp. 46-53.
Suh, Ikseon and Headrick, T.C. 2010. A comparative analysis of the bootstrap versus traditional statistical procedures applied to digital analysis based on Benford’s law. Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting, 2(2): 144-175.
Trebby, James, “Targeted Tax Breaks” Practical Tax Strategies, Vol. 82, No. 3, March 2009, pp. 1-6.