10 Dec 2014 Municipalities Contract out Services... and then Trust A paper by Ditillo, Steccolini, Liguori and Sicilia finds out that trustbased controls on contracted out services are the most commonly used by Italian municipalities regardless of the kind of service
08 Oct 2014 Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation: the Best Quality Comes with the Last Term Cameran, Prencipe and Trombetta, studying the Italian setting, highlight that audit quality improves when the audit firm can't be reappointed
24 Sep 2014 Earnings Management Goes Familial Family firms engage in earnings management as much as nonfamily business, but in a peculiar way, Gianfranco Siciliano and three coauthors from Technische Universitaet Muenchen explain
10 Sep 2014 The Future of Accounting Research in Family Firms A new paper by Prencipe, BarYosef and Dekker highlights theoretical and empirical challenges and provides guidelines to scholars who intend to focus on such area
30 Jul 2014 Miles Gietzmann, an Expert in Corporate Disclosure A new full professor at the Department of Accounting
11 Jun 2014 The Negative Effects of International Financial Reporting Standards A paper by Cameran, Pettinicchio and Campa shows that IFRS didn't improve earnings quality of the Italian firms that adopted them