Course Summary

Course

Analytics in Accounting

Instructor

Christian Hofmann

Date

November 3-7

Venue

University of Amsterdam

Course Coordinator

Jan Bouwens
j.f.m.g.bouwens@uva.nl

The course considers the use of accounting information for incentive purposes and performance evaluation (decision-influencing role of accounting information). We will study seminal papers on incentives, performance measurement, and how incentives and performance measurement affect the assignment of authority in hierarchies.