University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Women’s Issues Committee
The leadership program identifies the outstanding work of women on campus. Dr. Kamal was nominated for her exceptional leadership of the Women in Business Committee, and her dedication to issues such as addressing the gender gap in the Business student population.
Ownership Characteristics of Hispanic- Owned Banks in America
Russ Kashian, Cathy Xue
Existing research has established that minority banks and depository institutions are concentrated in minority-populated areas, tend to serve the interests, and ensure the economic viability of the minority populations, primarily through cultural affinity...
Bridging the Gap Between Management and Finance: Entrepreneurial Orientation and Idiosyncratic Risk
Steven Kihm
Management theorists suggest that entrepreneurially oriented firms manifest higher risk levels than more conservative companies, but entrepreneurial practitioners and their consultants argue that the opposite is true. The purpose of this research is to ex...
Internal CFOs and Cash Flow Sensitivity of Investment
Bakhtear Talukdar
It is a well-documented phenomenon that investment cash flow sensitivity causes underinvestment when cash flows are low, and overinvestment when cash flows are high. The firm’s ability to access external capital is positively correlated to cash flows, thu...
ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT, FINANCIAL REPORTING OUTCOMES, AND AUDITOR BEHAVIOR
Franklin Amartey
Enterprise risk management (ERM) offers a new framework for organizations to take a portfolio view of risk management with a goal to minimize the occurrence of enterprise-wide risks to achieve organizational objectives. This paper investigates whether th...
Improving Critical Thinking Using Process Writing Approach
In this study, I intend to examine whether the use of process writing approach improves the critical thinking and writing skills of undergraduate finance students. Process writing approach for a writing assignment allows students to do collaborative work ...
DIRECTOR STOCK OWNERSHIP PLANS AND ACQUISITION ACTIVITY OF FIRMS
Kathleen Farrell
Using Zero-Inflated Poisson (ZIP) model, we examine the effects of director ownership and director plan adoption on the firms’ acquisition activity. We hypothesize that the firms’ acquisition activity increases with directors’ ownership as the directors’ ...
Effect of Regulation FD on Disclosure of Information by Firms
Edward Lawrence, Arun Prakash, George McCabe
The SEC’s fair disclosure (FD) law was aimed at removing the practice of selective disclosure by firms, but critics of the law argued that the law might result in reduced disclosure of information by issuers (firms) thus reducing the overall information i...
Director Stock Ownership Plans and Firm Performance
Kathleen Farrell
We analyze a sample of firms that have adopted director stock ownership plans between 1998 and 2004. These plans require non-employee directors to invest in and hold a specific amount of firms’ stock while they serve as members on the firms’ boards. We ar...
Match Quality and Initial CEO Compensation
Sam Allgood, Kathleen Farrell
Effect of Regulation FD on Disclosure of Information by Firms
Edward Lawrence, Arun Prakash
Effect of Regulation FD on Disclosure of Information by Firms