Dr Ana Simpson

Lecturer in Accounting

Research interests

• Voluntary disclosure - incentives and consequences
• Analysts' forecast efficiency
• Earnings management
   

Publications

• "Do Customer Acquisition Cost, Call Usage and Customer Retention Matter in the Wireless Industry" (with E. Talmor and G. Livne), Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 2011, Vol. 38, Issue 3 – 4, p334-363, 30p.
  
  
  
• Discussion of the "Relevance of Accounting Information in a Stock Market Bubble: Evidence from Internet IPOs", Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 2010, Vol. 37 Issue 3-4, p322 – 331, 11p.
  
  
  
• "Analysts' Use of Non-financial Information Disclosures", Contemporary Accounting Research, 2010, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p249-288, 40p.
  
  
  
• "Voluntary Disclosure of Advertising Expenditures", 2008, Journal of   Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Vol. 23 Issue 3, pp. 404-36.
   

Working papers

• "Does Investor Sentiment Affect Earnings Management?"* – co-authored with L. Shivakumar and S. Rajgopal
  
  
• A Catering Theory of Earnings Management (with S. Rajgopal and L. Shivakumar)
    
   

Teaching

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Lectures / classes

• AC100 Elements of Accounting and Finance
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