Posted 9/3/09
CALL FOR PAPERS/SPEAKERS
FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS AND VALUATION:
FORECASTING FIRM AND INDUSTRY FUNDAMENTALS
Biltmore Hotel
Coral Gables, Florida
April 9 & 10, 2010
Jointly sponsored by:
The University of Notre Dame
and
The University of Miami
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF CARE:
CARE organizes conferences, with two key aims:
(1) to strengthen the links between investment/accounting
professionals and university faculty who teach and do
research at the interface of accounting and finance
(2) to encourage younger academics to pursue a research
agenda that is relevant to the investment/accounting
community and hence relevant in the classroom.
With this in mind, we invite highly informed, very
influential, sometimes provocative, keynote speakers.
These speakers set the stage for the conference and are
followed by several short presentations by academics of
completed research and work-in-progress, which is related
to the topic selected by the keynote speaker.
THE FOCUS OF THE 2010 CONFERENCE:
The theme of the 2010 conference is: Forecasting Firm and
Industry Fundamentals.
The aims of this particular conference are:
(1) to encourage and promote quality and innovative
research on this topic
(2) to facilitate discussion regarding:
(a) directions for future research in forecasting
(b) innovations in teaching forecasting in business
school curricula, particularly in courses on
Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation
CARE seeks speakers/papers, which are innovative and
somewhat different from the norm. The aim is to facilitate
a discussion among academics and between academics and
practitioners that will lead to research ideas and to
changes in the way we teach. Topics that fall within the
conference theme include, but are by no means limited to:
- Models for forecasting almost anything of interest
(ranging from the weather, to GDP growth, to the outcome
of elections, to corporate earnings, either by an
outsider, such as an analyst, or by an insider, such as a
member of the executive management team or the CFO) or
people who have developed bankruptcy prediction models
- Interesting new ideas on forecasting sales, earnings,
cash flows or other fundamentals
- Forecasting extreme outcomes
- Forecasting in developing countries
- Prediction Markets
- When forecasting fails
- Forecasting catastrophic events
- Accounting for catastrophic events
- Use of markets as the basis for forecasting
- Forecasting forecast errors
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
The deadline for submission of papers is November 1, 2009.
Please forward working or published papers, in Microsoft
Word, to:
Email: MAILTO:lmarsh1@nd.edu
as soon as possible.
Suggestions for papers/speakers, which CARE may solicit for
the conference, would also be most welcome.
Authors/speakers will be asked to give a 20-30 minute
speech, which is based on the paper, but they may be asked
to provide more background and related material. CARE will
provide travel cost and lodging for all speakers;
registration fees will be waived.
Authors/speakers will be contacted regarding the inclusion
of their paper in the conference in late January 2010.