Accounting - Costello

When crowdfunding platform Kickstarter started allowing creators to put environmental pledges front and center, George Mason University accounting professor Yi Cao saw a unique opportunity. His co-authored research shows how “going green” turned out to be an impactful business choice with financial, operational and, yes, environmental implications for entrepreneurs and customers.

In his award-winning dissertation, now a published paper, George Mason University accounting professor Steven Maex reveals that privacy laws such as the European Union’s GDPR can spur firms to improve how they manage one of their most valuable assets: their data.

The SEC’s communications with equity issuers are a potential treasure trove for info-hungry investors, according to research by accounting professor David Koo. But they are not always getting into the public eye early enough to make a difference.

Co-owned companies are more likely to use the same audit firm. This has positive implications for institutional investors and the market as a whole, according to Young Hoon Kim, assistant professor of accounting at Costello.

Bridging the information gap between HQ and the local level is one of the main challenges for consolidated companies. In a forthcoming paper in Management Science, Barbara Su, assistant professor of accounting at Costello, explores how multi-bank holding companies rely on internal accounting information as a complement to financial performance, to help them make intramural investment decisions.

A George Mason University accounting professor explains how information on the behavior of companies that have been under SEC investigation reveals a variety of changes and opens the way for a step forward in accounting research.

Managers’ attempts to distract investors from bad news have serious implications for market efficiency.

Taxing “book” income may result in worse information for shareholders and creditors.

After taking the Survey of Accounting 203 course with Muhammad Awais (BS Accounting ‘13, MS Accounting ‘14), an adjunct instructor at the Costello College of Business, Khaled Alkurd knew everything he needed to know to switch his area of study from marketing to accounting.

Auditors with less common first names are more likely to deviate from auditing norms. But is their individualism an asset or a liability?