Through the perspectives of accounting, economics, finance and law, our research addresses timely topics in corporate governance, including the audit process, executive compensation, board structure and firm performance.
Tracie Woidtke
“Our findings suggest that director-specific attributes are important drivers of value, are related to good decision-making, and should be considered when establishing and assessing policy.”
Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog
Terry Neal
Fred Ehrsam’s ties to Coinbase Global Inc. run deep: He co-founded the multibillion-dollar bitcoin exchange, was its president until 2017, owns millions of its shares and was part-owner of a company it bought last year.
Wall Street Journal
Lauren Cunningham
“The audit committee should be paying attention to the nature of the deficiency to better understand if this is something that could allow a material misstatement to go undetected at their company.”
Matthew Serfling
Common wisdom suggests that good management is good business — but actually quantifying the impact of management practices on key business outcomes such as M&As and financial performance is often easier said than done.
Harvard Business Review
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Neel Corporate Governance Center
Research Shows Danger to CEOs when Firms Overpay, or Underpay, Taxes
Faculty Research by James Chyz, assistant professor of Accounting and Information Management, shows a correlation between CEO turnover and whether firms pay more, or less, taxes than their peers.
Serfling Receives Professional Promise Award From UT Provost
Matthew Serfling, Truist Professor of Finance and Kinney Family Faculty Research Fellow in the Haslam College of Business, is one of four University of Tennessee, Knoxville, faculty members to be honored with the 2022 Research and Creative Achievement-Professional Promise Award.
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