Through the perspectives of accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, information management, marketing, and law, our research addresses timely topics in corporate governance, including the audit process, executive compensation, board structure and firm performance.
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.
The role of the audit committee has changed significantly since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), with many audit committees now overseeing a variety of emerging risks and balancing an ever-increasing workload. In seeking to understand more about audit committees’ evolving responsibilities, proxy disclosure strategies and self-evaluation processes, the Neel Center partnered with the Center for Audit Quality and researchers from the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. Our findings should be of interest to current board members, investors and regulators of governance-related disclosures.
Tingting Liu, Austin Starkweather, Tomer Stein and Daniel Weagley are the latest UT faculty members to join the center.