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The Accounting & Financial Management department at King's Business School organises regular research seminars with guest speakers. 

Seminars and workshops are held at Bush House, unless stated otherwise.

Previous seminars in the Accounting & Financial Management event series are archived online. 

2024/2025 Academic Year

  • 9 October 2024, 15.30–17.00
    Professor Konstantinos Stathopoulos (Alliance Manchester Business School) – Does zombification influence corporate carbon performance?
  • 16 October 2024, 15.00–16.30
    Dr Iva Koci (Imperial College London) – The spillover effect from Climate Action 100+
  • 23 October 2024, 16.30–18.00
    Professor Dimitrios Gounopoulos (University of Bath) – Wildfire smoke and its impacts on the real estate market
  • 13 November 2024, 13.30–15.00
    Dane Pflueger (HEC Paris) – Counsellors, waiters, beggars, and bribers: the economic and social lives of sell-side analysts in China
  • 29 January 2025, 15.30–17.00
    Dr Zexi (Jesse) Wang (Lancaster University) – Does better access to disclosure curb CEO pay? Evidence from a modern information technology improvement
  • 5 March 2025, 15.30–17.00
    Dr Jay Jung (Bayes Business School) – Identification of analyst coverage initiations
  • 12 March 2025, 15.00–16.30
    Dr Sergey Mityakov (Truist Associate Professor of Finance, Florida State University) – Who benefits from tax evasion of politically connected firms?
  • 2 April 2025, 15.30–17.00
    Professor Francesco Vallascas (Durham University) – Digitalization in banking: evidence from the New York Cybersecurity Regulation
  • 7 May 2025, 15.30–17.00
    Dr Reining Petacchi (Associate Professor of Accounting, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University) – Measuring the informativeness of audit reports: a machine learning approach
  • 14 May 2025, 13.30–15.00
    Professor James Baird (Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow) – How audit partners make decisions – the emergence of ‘defendability’ as a new basis of accounting truth and what this means for audit’s public interest function
  • 4 June 2025, 15.30–17.00
    Dr Paul Lavery (University of Glasgow) – Private equity buyouts and portfolio company performance post-exit