The factors that investment bankers take into account when pricing IPO firms are examined.Following a review of the literature on investment bankers and the initial public offering process, it is hypothesized that larger, older firms with sizable, prestigious boards, pre-IPO profitability, and...

Despite the controversy regarding quot;glass ceilingquot; effects for women and the specific concern expressed by large CPA firms over their inability to retain women in senior positions, there is little empirical evidence regarding why women partners and managers leave public accounting. In...