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Incorporating Ethics Into Accounting Education: A Proposal For An Undergraduate Accounting Ethics Course For The University Of Tennessee, Knoxville, Courtney Michaluk Dec 2011

Incorporating Ethics Into Accounting Education: A Proposal For An Undergraduate Accounting Ethics Course For The University Of Tennessee, Knoxville, Courtney Michaluk

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.


International Tax Treaty And Withholding System (Itts), Shehroz Bolievich Yarkulov Aug 2011

International Tax Treaty And Withholding System (Itts), Shehroz Bolievich Yarkulov

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.


Price Appreciation, Bargaining Power, And The Determinants Of Corporate Leasing Policy, Daniel John Stone May 2011

Price Appreciation, Bargaining Power, And The Determinants Of Corporate Leasing Policy, Daniel John Stone

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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Ceo Serps: Are They Related To Firm Risk And Who Approves Them?, Colin D. Reid May 2011

Ceo Serps: Are They Related To Firm Risk And Who Approves Them?, Colin D. Reid

Doctoral Dissertations

This paper investigates whether CEO supplemental executive retirement plans (SERPs) are associated with firm risk. Sundaram and Yermack (2007) show that CEOs manage their firms more conservatively as their debt incentives increase. Using new executive compensation disclosures mandated by the SEC, I find a negative association between CEO SERPs and firm risk but only for unsheltered SERPs. I find that when a CEO SERP is protected by a lump sum payment or by a trust (i.e. sheltered), the negative association between SERPs and firm risk is greatly diminished and even eliminated in some models. Furthermore, I show that having a …


Competing Globally With Cost Accounting, Long Ho Kwan May 2011

Competing Globally With Cost Accounting, Long Ho Kwan

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.