06-02-2013, 03:30 PM
Doctoral Seminar in Accounting and Corporate Governance Research
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Purpose and objectives:
The primary objective of the course is to provide participants to some major themes and
methodologies of contemporary empirical financial accounting and corporate governance
research. We will consider the theoretical basis and research methods of key papers drawn from
the academic accounting and corporate governance literature to enable doctoral students to
develop the skills to conduct their own research. Achievement of this objective will also
necessitate that students develop an appreciation of the research tools necessary to become
productive scholars.
Course content:
The contents of this course include
(i) business, financial, political and legal issues affecting systems by which corporations are
directed and controlled,
(ii) a comparative and interdisciplinary approach,
(iii) the nature of the corporation, the basic theory of the firm, the internal and external
architecture of corporate governance,
(iv) the role of regulatory authorities, models of corporate governance, principal-agent theory
within the corporate context,
(v) the corporate culture, corruption, management and board compensation, conceptions of
social responsibility, and capital market development and international cross-listing of
shares,
(vi) the reforms and new standards which were set in the wake of corporate scandals.