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16 April 2026, Kerstin Falk & Bianca Beyer: Tax incentive effectiveness

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23 April 2026, Seppo Ikäheimo: AI in the finance function

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28 April 2026, : Unfavorable Media Evaluations and CSR Misalignment

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9 April 2026, : Impact as the control of causality: The role of financial measurement 

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26 March 2026, Roope Keloharju: Corporate Risk Networks and Systemic Vulnerabilities 

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19 March 2026, Thomas Taussi: Corporate risk preferences in the context of non-mandatory safety and security investments – a field study

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12 March 2026, : Does Mandatory Auditing Reduce Fraud? Evidence from the Swedish Auditing Reform

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05 March 2026, : Politics of Sustainability Reporting: Evidence from NGO Involvement

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27 November 2025, (University of Turku): Economic paradigms and their performativity in accounting research

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20 November 2025, (University of Florida): Adaptation in the Accounting Labor Supply

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30 October 2025, Ryoko Yamada: Exploring Foucauldian Perspectives on Control: Insights from the Accounting Literature

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23 October 2025, : Emotional Responses to Calculative Practices in Academia: Discourses of Academic Selves

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09 October 2025, (Queen Mary University of London) & (University of Auckland), Editor's Panel

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08 October 2025, (Queen Mary University of London): The Impact of the FRC Audit Inspection Program on Audit Effort and Audit Fees

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25 September 2025, Meng Guo: Dissertation chapter: Audit firms’ exam cheating scandals

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18 September 2025, Roope Keloharju: Corporate Disclosures and Real Responses to Geopolitical Risk: Evidence from the War in Ukraine

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11 September 2025, : Accountants in a Digital Era - The Role of Protective Identity Work and Identity Fluidity

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21 August 2025,  : The role of intermediary controllers in performance brokerage

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06 March 2025, Jukka Sihvonen: Cybersecurity disclosure: Early evidence from 10-K reports

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13 February 2025, : Executive mental health and corporate bankruptcy

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20 February 2025, Meng Guo: Beyond Compliance: Implications of the Institutional Environment for Clients’ Decisions of Sustainability Assurance

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16 January 2025, : Scaling of the clan - Evolution of management control practices in a high growth scale-up

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6 February 2025, Emma Willems: Hybrid Strategies in Service Industries: The Interplay Between Strategic Focus and Operational Efficiency

04 December 2024, Jukka Sihvonen, Brown Bag Seminar

Digitalization and Cybersecurity: Firm-Level Evidence

21 November 2024 David Hay, Seminar

Gatekeepers or Facilitators? The Role of Big-4 Auditors in Tax Avoidance and Financial Reporting

19 September 2024 Peter Carey, Seminar

Connected Board Committees and ESG Performance: Evidence from International Setting

29 August 2024: Helsinki Accounting & Auditing Mini Conference with Linda Myers

PRESENTERS

 Ly Pham (Aalto University): “The Impact of Critical Audit Matter on the Value Relevance of Intangible Assets”

 Ankita Marwaha (Aalto University): “Risk Factor Disclosure Complexity and Litigation Risk: Evidence from Textual Analysis”

(Hanken School of Economics): “Spillover effects of sustainability reporting mandate through subsidiaries: Evidence from U.S. firms.”

(Hanken School of Economics): “Does Mandatory Sustainability Reporting Affect Firm Profitability? Evidence from China”

Roope Keloharju (Aalto University): “Accountability through Public Disclosure: The Impact of Tax Transparency on Private Foundations' Charitable Donations.”

(Hanken School of Economics): “Sharing the Pain between Workers and Management: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic and 9/11 Attacks.”

15 August 2024 Charl de Villiers, seminar

“Sustainability Accounting: Overview and Research Ideas”

19 June 2024 Kerstin Falk, seminar

“Engagement matters – an employee perspective on MC effectiveness”

17 June 2024 Ali Nickpour, seminar 

"Baking and slicing the pie: The effect of compensation disparity among audit partners on audit quality"

"Internal control weaknesses and audit partners’ reputation concerns"

29 May 2024 - Helsinki Accounting Seminar with

Using Large Language Models to study Press Releases

23 April 2024 - Brown Bag Seminar with (University of Oulu)

Does the apple fall far from the tree? Parental influence on executive financial misconduct

18 March 2024 - Helsinki Accounting Seminar with (LMU)

Climate-related information in financial statements

08 February 2024 - Helsinki Accounting Seminar with

The Importance of Audit Partners in Explaining Audit Outcomes: A Stylized Fact?

25 January 2024 - Department Seminar with

Social Capital and Business Strategy 

(14:00-15:00 - V101 Board Room)

12 January 2024 - Department Seminar with

Sustainability-linked Loan Contracting 

(11:00-12:00 - V301 BIZ Lounge)

21 November 2023 - Brown Bag Seminar with Rounak Gunjal (WHU)

The search, destruction and recreation of meaning: automating accounting in shared service centers

(11:00-12:00 - V101 Board Room)

5 October 2023 - Department Seminar with Tsu-Ting Chiu (NHH) -

"Market Reaction to Voting Intention Disclosures"

(11:00-12:00 - V101 Istuntosali)

21 September 2023 - Online Department Seminar with Piia Korri (Hanken) -

"Sustainability reporting"

(11:00-12:00 - online)

29 August 2023 - Department Seminar with Ly Pham (Aalto University) 

"The Impact of Critical Audit Matters on the Value Relevance of Intangible Assets"

(11:00-12:00 - Ekonominaukio 1, V101 Istuntosali)
 

12 June 2023 - Brown Bag Seminar with David Derichs, Teemu Malmi, and Vikash Sinha (Aalto University) 

“Digitalization of the Finance Function: Automation, Analytics, and Finance Function Effectiveness”

(14:00-15:00 - Ekonominaukio 1, V101 Istuntosali)
 

5 June 2023 - Seminar with Erkki Liikanen (chairman of the IFRS Foundation Trustees) -

“IFRS Standards and Sustainability ” 

(11:00-12:00 - Otakaari 1, U135a U7 PWC)
 

29 May 2023 - Department Seminar with Sebastian Tideman (Syracuse University) -

“Hidden in the middle? Strategic positioning of earnings-related news during earnings conference calls”

(11:00-12:00 - Ekonominaukio 1, V101 Istuntosali)

23 May 2023 - Young Scholar Auditing Research Seminar, organized by Lasse Niemi. 

“Contemporary Issues in Auditing” 

(10:00-15:00 - Ekonominaukio 1, T003 ground floor)

22 May 2023 - Department Seminar with Melissa Martin (University of Illinois ) -

"Performance Management System Evolution: Evidence from incentive contracting"

(11:00-12:00 - Ekonominaukio 1, V101 Istuntosali)
 

4 May 2023 - Brown Bag Seminar with Meng Guo (Aalto University)

"Trust and Non-Audit Services"

(11:00-12:00 - Ekonominaukio 1, V301 BIZ Lounge & Terrace)
 

31 March 2023 - Department Seminar with David Bedford (UTS Sydney) -

"Towards a contingency theory of management control"

(11:00-12:00 - Ekonominaukio 1, V101 Istuntosali)
 

23 March 2023 - Brown Bag Seminar with Kai G. Mertens (TU Hamburg-Harburg) -

"Death and Decay or Due to Refinement? Understanding the Relationship between information system success and cost system design and use"

(11:00-12:00 - Ekonominaukio 1, V101 - Boardroom)
 

30 Jan 2023 - Department Seminar with Jan Pfister (University of Turku) -

“Towards a social notion of academic freedom—an institutional vision for accounting research.”

(11:00-12:00 - Ekonominaukio 1, V101 Istuntosali)
 

19 Jan 2023 - Brown Bag Seminar with Bianca Beyer (Aalto University) - /en/department-of-accounting-business-law/bianca-beyer

“How Does Carbon Footprint Information Affect Consumer Choice? A Field Experiment”

(14:00-15:00 - Ekonominaukio 1, V301 BIZ Lounge & Terrace)

8 December - Department Seminar with Ingolf Kloppenburg (University of Turku)

Does the Capital Market Recognize Financial Misrepresentations? – Fundamental Value and Market Analysis

17 November – Department Seminar with Matteo Vacca (Department of Finance, Aalto University)

Diversification at Work: Evidence from Employee Stock Option

24 Oct – Department Seminar with Jukka Kettunen (Hanken)

Mandatory CSR disclosure and audit fees

26 Sep – Department Seminar with Bjorn Jorgensen (Copenhagen Business School)

Cheap stock options: Antecedents and outcomes

19 Sep - Department Seminar with Qian Wu (Beijing Institute of Technology)

Born to Be Anxious: Auditor Relative Age and Auditor Behavior

12 Sep - Department Seminar with Rui Li (Beijing Institute of Technology)

Auditor Clique Power and Client Acquirement: Evidence from China

6 June – Department Seminar with Haroon Afzali (Hanken School of Economics)

Reputation Capital of Corporate Directors and Tournament Incentives

23 May - Department Seminar with Richard Hatfield (University of Alabama)

Corporate CSR Disclosures and Regulatory Mandates: The Role of Investors’ Perceptions of Greenwashing

16 May - Department Seminar with Salvador Carmona (IE Business School)

Penal Accountancy and The Spanish Inquisition

7 April – Brown Bag Seminar with Monomita Nandy (Brunel University) and Suman Lodh (Middlesex University)

Relation between Auditing and Cryptocurrency in Europe

25 March - Online Seminar on Tax Avoidance as Research Topic (In Finnish)

Link to the event page.

16 March - Brown Bag Seminar with Anila Kiran (Aalto University)

Does auditor choice mediate the association between director social networks and financial reporting quality?
 

23 November - Department Seminar with Thomas Taussi (Aalto University)

Risk Work in Organizations Beyond Formal Enterprise Risk Management

18 November - Department Seminar with Bianca Beyer (Humboldt University)

Paywatch - Director's Skin in the Game and Executive Compensation

16 November - Department Seminar with Sven Hartlieb (University of Bamberg)

Climate change and audit pricing

10 November - Department Seminar with Ly Pham (Aalto University)

Climate risk disclosures and auditor expertise

18 October - Department Seminar with Michelle Carr (Cork University)

Risk and Management Control in the Twilight Zone: The Organization of Emergent Risk

5 October - Department Seminar with Kai Mertens (Technical University Hamburg)

Watch Out for Hidden Noise: Determinants and Consequences of Random Noise in Cost Information

15 September - Department Seminar with Lucie Brabcová (Prague University of Economics and Business)

Information support for liquidity management of international corporates

2 September - Brown Bag Seminar with Timo Punkari (Aalto University)

20 May - Brown Bag Seminar with Ali Nickpour (Aalto University)

Is tax risk a critical audit matter for the auditor's liability? The US evidence on the associations between tax risk, critical audit matters, and audit fees

29 April - Department Seminar with Arpine Maghakyan (Aalto University)

Auditing in the Era of Digital and Policy Uncertainties - The Effects of Auditor Knowledge and Client Bargaining Power on Audit Outcomes

22 April - Brown Bag Seminar with Anila Kiran (Aalto University)

Director social networks and sustainability reporting practices

16 November - Department Seminar with Seppo Ikäheimo and Janet Adelegan (Aalto University)

Mind My Business: Evidence of Performance and Valuation of Finnish Family-Owned Listed Companies

28 October - Department Seminar with Jiahe Liu ((University of Texas at El Paso)

The Impact of Joint Risk Disclosure on Auditor Liability: Evidence from China

5 October - Brown Bag Seminar with Ali Nickpour (Aalto University)

Assertiveness and audit quality: Archival evidence from Big 4 audit partner’s political involvement