2008 Conference

2008 CAPANA Conference
June 11-13, 2008
Shanghai, China

The Chinese Accounting Professors' Association of
North America's First Annual Research Conference

Conference Schedule

June 11, 2008

Check-in and meal coupon collection: Registration Center, Shanghai National Accounting Institute (上海國家會計學院註冊中心)

5:00pm-8:00pm conference reception
Venue: Dining Hall I, Shanghai National Accounting Institute (上海國家會計學院第一餐廳)

June 12, 2008

7:00am-8:30am breakfast
Venue: 1/F, Dining Hall III, Shanghai National Accounting Institute (上海國家會計學院第三餐廳一樓)

Conference venue: U-Shape Classroom II, 2/F, Lecture Building III, Shanghai National Accounting Institute (上海國家會計學院第三教學樓二樓馬蹄形教室二)

8:30am-9:00am registration

9:00am-10:15am paper 1
Title: Accounting Restatements and the Cost of Debt Capital
Presenter: Charles Shi (UC-Irvine)
Discussant: David Farber (University of Missouri)

10:15am-10:30am break

10:30am-11:45am paper 2
Title: Is Board Structure One-Size-Fits-All? The Unintended Informational Consequence of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Presenter: Huijing Fu (Texas Christian University)
Discussant: Jing Liu (UCLA/CKGSB)

12:00-2:00pm lunch break
Venue: 2/F, Dining Hall III, Shanghai National Accounting Institute (上海國家會計學院第三餐廳二樓)

2:00pm-3:15pm paper 3
Title: The Association between Management Earnings Forecast Errors and Accruals
Presenter: Laura Yue Li (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Discussant: Oliver Zhen Li (University of Arizona)

3:15pm-3:30pm break

3:30pm-4:45pm paper 4
Title : Product Market Competition, Proprietary Cost and Capital Market Financing Choice
Presenter: Vicki Wei Tang (Georgetown University)
Discussant: Ken Shaw (University of Missouri)

6:30pm–8:30pm banquet
Assembly time and venue: 5:30pm next to the bridge, near Apartment 9, Shanghai National Accounting Institute (上海國家會計學院9號公寓樓附近橋邊)
Banquet venue: Morning Shanghai, No. 1 Huang Pu Road, Hong Kou District, Shanghai
上海早晨(北外灘店),上海市虹口區黃浦路1號(大名路口)
Tel: (8621) 6309 1846

June 13, 2008

7:00am-8:30am breakfast
Venue: 1/F, Dining Hall III, Shanghai National Accounting Institute (上海國家會計學院第三餐廳一樓)

Conference venue: U-Shape Classroom II, 2/F, Lecture Building III, Shanghai National Accounting Institute (上海國家會計學院第三教學樓二樓馬蹄形教室二)

8:30am-9:00am registration

9:00am-10:15am paper 5
Title : Causes or Consequences? Earnings Management around Seasoned Equity Offerings
Presenter: Zhaoyang Gu (Carnegie Mellon University)
Discussant: Kin Lo (University of British Columbia)

10:15am-10:30am break

10:30am-11:45am paper 6
Title : The Effects of Mandatory Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards on Information Environments
Presenter: Zili Zhuang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Discussant: Sanjay Kallapur (Indian School of Business)

12:00-2:00pm lunch break
Venue: 2/F, Dining Hall III, Shanghai National Accounting Institute (上海國家會計學院第三餐廳二樓)

End of conference

(last update May 13, 2008)