This project began in July of 1996 when survey letters were sent to directors of accounting doctoral programs at all USA schools of accountancy. The survey requested each director to identify any AIS related dissertations completed in the previous five years (July 1991 through July 1996), as...

One way for firms to promote the mentoring of employees is to establish formal programs that match employees with potential mentors. Whether employees are satisfied with such formal mentoring is an empirical question. This paper examines that issue as well as whether formal mentoring programs...

Prior research has reported inconsistent results regarding whether public accounting mentoring diminishes or enhances protege role conflict. The current study develops theoretical propositions identifying the contradictory effects of informal mentors on protege role conflict: diminishing overall...

The purpose of this paper is to provide advice to accounting doctoral students and new accounting Ph.D.s on managing the review process. We also hope that our advice and suggestions will assist more experienced accounting faculty in their research endeavors. We offer suggestions from the point...

We hypothesize that the 2003 decrease in individual tax rates on dividends and capital gains should have been followed by a decline in the cost of capital and increased volatility, especially for dividend paying firms. We observe a significantly positive increase in the volatility of daily...

The use of online workers as research participants has grown in recent years, prompting interest in how online workers compare to traditional accounting research participants. To date, no study has compared the relative intelligence of online workers to student subjects. Such a comparison may be...

Employee turnover has received growing attention during the Great Resignation following the COVID-19 pandemic. This study investigates whether and how enabling budgeting is associated with lower employee turnover intentions. We draw on signaling and organizational support theories to argue that...