Entrepreneurial Accounting

704 Southeast 5th Street,Bentonville AR 72712

08 November, 2022

Description

Startups and small businesses need to be nimble when both opportunity and challenges arise. Knowing the status of financial resources can help seize opportunities and navigate challenges effectively. Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to: Build solid financial statements Construct accurate balance sheets Estimate trends with financial forecasting tools Instructor: Kris Allee, Ph.D. Kristian (Kris) Allee is the Doyle Z. Williams Chair in Professional Accounting and an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas. He graduated from Indiana University with a PhD in Accounting and earned his BS and MAcc degrees at Brigham Young University. Kris worked at Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin—Madison as an assistant professor of accounting before joining the faculty at the University of Arkansas and was an associate economist for the Federal Reserve Banks in St. Louis, MO and Charlotte, NC. Kris’ research examines firms’ disclosure policies, textual analysis and computational linguistics on firm disclosures, the production and use of financial statements by small businesses, cost of equity capital estimates, and corporate tax policies and behavior. He has published research in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Accounting Organizations and Society, Management Science, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Business Horizons, and the Journal on Baseball and American Culture. He primarily teaches financial accounting. Additionally, he has taught financial accounting research to PhD students and financial statement analysis to undergraduate, MBA, and MAcc students.