Rucsandra Moldovan, PhD
Associate Professor, Accountancy
On leave between July 2023 and July 2024
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Research and Teaching Interests
My research focuses on how corporations communicate with information intermediaries and the capital markets. Using primarily quantitative empirical research methods, I examine
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how employees, regulations, institutions, and governance shape corporate disclosure,
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how corporate disclosure choices influence the work that information intermediaries do, and
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how financial regulations change the incentives that information intermediaries have.
In line with my research, I teach financial reporting and corporate disclosure topics at undergraduate and PhD level.
Areas of Expertise
Segment Reporting; Mandatory and Voluntary Corporate Disclosure; Investor Relations; Financial Reporting Quality; Textual Analysis; Information Intermediaries; International Accounting
Education
Research
Publications
- Financing from SSHRC Insight Grant, 2021-2024
Accounting for Intangible Assets—Insights from Meta-Analysis of R&D Research, with Anne Jeny. Journal of Accounting Literature, 2022, Volume 44 Issue 1 Pages 40-71.
- Blog post about meta-analysis at EAA Accounting Research Center
Wall Street Analysts as Investor Relations Officers, with Ole-Kristian Hope and Zhongwei Huang. Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021, Volume 67 Pages 1-20.
- Media coverage: Matt Levine's Bloomberg Views blog "Money Stuff", IR Magazine, Institutional Investor magazine, Columbia Law School BlueSky Blog
- Financing from the International Accounting Standards Board 2017
- Presented at the January 2018 IASB Board meeting in London
- Best Paper Award, FARS Midyear Meeting 2020
- Presented at the 2019 Review of Accounting Studies conference
- Media coverage: Institutional Investor magazine, IR Magazine, Euromoney, Finanz und Wirtschaft, S&P Global Market Intelligence
- Financing from the CAAA Research Grant Program, 2020
- JIAR 2019 Best Paper Award
Post-implementation Reviews for IASB and FASB Standards: A Comparison of the Process and Findings for the Operating Segments Standards, Accounting in Europe, 2014, Volume 11 Issue 1 Pages 113-137.
Response of the EAA FRSC to the EFRAG/ANC/FRC Discussion Paper: Towards a Disclosure Framework for the Notes, with R. Barker, E. Barone, J. Birt, A. Gaeremynck, A. Mcgeachin, J. Marton. Accounting in Europe, 2013, Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 1-26.
Working Papers
Disclosure of Cybersecurity Risks Transfer and Data Breaches, with Farzaneh Amani and Michel Magnan, 2023
Labor Costs of Implementing New Accounting Standards, with Luminita Enache, Zhongwei Huang, and Anup Srivastava, 2023
Do Mutual Fund Managers Care About Proposed Accounting Standard Changes? with Luminita Enache, Paul A. Griffin, and Zhongwei Huang, 2023
Research Grants
Project: "Do mutual fund managers care about accounting standard changes?"
SSHRC Insight Grant (co-applicant), 2021-2024
IASB Post-Implementation Review Research Grant, 2017
Project: "Literature Review on IFRS 13 Fair Value Measurement"
Completed report and executive summary
Teaching
Courses
ESSEC Business School, France
Financial Accounting and Reporting (CPTC 31125)
Introduction to Financial Accounting
Teaching Materials
Financial Analysis in Banking: The Challenge of Segment Reporting. With Long T. Bui (PhD student) and Michel Magnan. Accounting Perspectives, 2021, Volume 20 Issue 3 Pages 389-401. Case study for senior undergraduate or executive education.
Digitizing Luxury – Growth, Profitability, and FinancialFlexibility at YOOX. With Thomas Jeanjean. 2015. Case study for graduate level.
Service
Editorial Board
The International Journal of Accounting (TIJA), 2021-2023
Accounting Forum, since 2019
Accounting in Europe, since 2019
Social Media
Social Media Editor for Accounting Forum, July 2020-October 2021
Social media team for the EAA Accounting Research Center, Dec 2018-May 2021