45th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association (EAA) in Helsinki

In May, several CAR members and DART students presented their research at the 45th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association (EAA) in Helsinki, Finland. Current DART students Daniel Fabisch, Martin Klösch, and Bettina Mandl, as well as CAR members Stefanie Pendl, Martina Rechbauer, Silke Rünger, and Theresa Wittreich were invited to present their current working papers and gave insights from their work to a broad audience and benefited from high-level feedback from internationally recognized accounting researchers. Martin Klösch also served as a discussant in a parallel session. In addition, CAR’s faculty was also involved in the conference. Rainer Nieman served as session chair, Georg Schneider participated as a member of the Standing Scientific Committee, charged with selecting papers for for the congress, and Alfred Wagenhofer gave a talk on analytical research in accounting as part of the annual PhD forum and served as moderator of the Yuri Ijiri Lecture, held by Steven Zeff (Rice University). Further, DART alumnus Felix Niggemann gave a talk on his current research project. I additon to participating in highly productive research sessions and symposia, the congress participants also joined a number of social events and networked with international research fellows.