MARCH-APRIL 2009

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Accounting Students Honored

Annual SDSU/Padres Case Study Competition Held at PETCO Park

College of Business Administration Salutes Student Soldiers/Veterans

BAN’s 3 Women Wednesday

International Business, Economics and Accounting Collaborative Network (iBEACON) Updates

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International Business, Economics and Accounting Collaborative Network (iBEACON) Updates

• Dr. Victoria Krivogorsky (accountancy), who is currently visiting ESSEC and European School of Management in Paris, France for a one-year term, and Dr. Gary Grudnitski (accountancy) visited the University of Auvergne Clermont-Ferrand, France. They taught a graduate seminar on "Methodology of the Accounting Research” and held a conference titled “Recent Financial Crisis in the U.S.” 

• New members of iBEACON include Dr. Pascale Delvaille, European School of Management (France); Dr. Wolfgang Dick, ESSEC (France); Dr. Niclas Hellman, Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden); and Dr. Chiara Saccon, Ca’ Foscari-University (Italy). These new members will contribute to the research monograph, "Regulations, Accounting and Corporate Governance in Europe" to be published by Routledge Publishing and edited by Krivogorsky.

• Krivogorsky coordinated research sessions for the International Section of American Accounting Association’s  mid-year meeting in Orlando, Florida, February, 12-15, 2009.

• While at the Orlando meeting, Krivogorsky also organized iBEACON's special session “Challenges of IFRS Adoption and Corporate Governance Reorganization in Europe”.

• Also at the Orlando meeting, Grudnitski made a presentation titled “Empirical Evidence of the Consequences of IFRS Adoption in Europe” as part of the special session panel.

• Krivogorsky was given an outstanding service award for her contributions to the International Section of American Accounting Association’s mid-year meeting in Orlando, Florida, February, 12-15, 2009.

• Krivogorsky organized iBEACON's special session “Teaching Accounting in the Time of Harmonization” for the upcoming American Accounting Association annual meeting in New York City, August 1 – 5,  2009.