Accounting Press Release

Columbia Business School study finds that self-proclaimed ESG companies and funds are falling well short on their commitments  

New Columbia Business School study finds that 26 percent of perpetrators of financial reporting misconduct – largely CEOs and CFOs – experience an overall gain.

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) recently issued a revised Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting, which essentially acts as a constitution, setting the bounds for accounting standards worldwide. 

Columbia Business School Research Offers Banking World a Transformative Forward-Looking Model for Estimating Credit Losses New Metric to Improve Analysis of Bank Loan Portfolios

Given explosive growth in the ICO market, new research highlights the value of disclosure in this global market NEW YORK – With around $13billion raised through initial coin offerings (ICOs) between April 2014 to May 2018, across 50+ countries and by over 650 issuers, the question of investor protection is now urgent. The global market continues to grow, typically with over 100 new ICOs a month, however, some ICOs experience falls of -75% or more within a few months of the issue date.

Over the past decade, public companies large and small have been taking note of the increasing impact of shareholder votes on their governance and compensation practices, particularly with the rise of shareholder activism. But new research from Columbia Business School suggests that corporate management continues to have extraordinary influence on voting outcomes. 

The American Accounting Association (AAA) would like to congratulate Dan Amiram, Zahn Bozanic, and Ethan Rouen as recipients of the 2017 Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award.

As the United States experiences another year of lackluster financial growth, economists are looking at corporate tax rates as a cause.  But is a high US corporate tax rate to blame for the weak economy?

Trevor Harris, Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School, has been named to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)’s Investor Advisory Committee.

New research from Columbia Business School helps explain the low number of corporate whistle-blowers: company stock options are often given to rank-and-file employees to discourage them from publicly reporting financial reporting violations.