Nicholas Seybert

University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance

Associate Professor

Robert H. Smith School of Business

College Park, MD 20742-9157

United States

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Behavioral Studies of the Effects of Regulation on Earnings Management and Accounting Choice

ACCOUNTING, ORGANIZATIONS, AND INSTITUTIONS: ESSAYS FOR ANTHONY HOPWOOD, Oxford University Press, 2009, Johnson School Research Paper Series No. #16-09
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2009
Robert Libby and Nicholas Seybert
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance
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earnings management, accounting choice, financial reporting, regulation, corporate governance, auditing

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Narcissism Is a Bad Sign: CEO Signature Size, Investment, and Performance

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Narcissism Is a Bad Sign: CEO Signature Size, Investment, and Performance

UNC Kenan-Flagler Research Paper No. 2013-1
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 10 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2020
Charles (Chad) Ham, Nicholas Seybert and Sean Wang
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business, University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Accounting Department
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CEO narcissism, signature size, firm investment, firm performance, CEO compensation

Narcissism Is a Bad Sign: CEO Signature Size, Investment, and Performance

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming
Posted: 30 Aug 2017
Charles (Chad) Ham, Nicholas Seybert and Sean Wang
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business, University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Accounting Department

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CEO narcissism, signature size, firm investment, firm performance, CEO compensation

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CFO Narcissism and Financial Reporting Quality

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CFO Narcissism and Financial Reporting Quality

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming, Robert H. Smith School Research Paper No. RHS 2581157
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 21 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2017
Charles (Chad) Ham, Mark H. Lang, Nicholas Seybert and Sean Wang
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Accounting Department
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CFO, CEO, narcissism, financial reporting, earnings management

CFO Narcissism and Financial Reporting Quality

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 55, No. 5, 2017
Posted: 12 Mar 2018
Charles (Chad) Ham, Mark H. Lang, Nicholas Seybert and Sean Wang
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Accounting Department

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financial reporting quality; narcissism; CFO; CEO; executives; accruals; real earnings management; internal controls; restatements; conservatism

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The Party's Over: The Role of Earnings Guidance in Resolving Sentiment-Driven Overvaluation

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The Party's Over: The Role of Earnings Guidance in Resolving Sentiment-Driven Overvaluation

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2014
Nicholas Seybert and Holly Yang
University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance and Singapore Management University - School of Accountancy
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management guidance, forecasts, investor sentiment, disclosure, overvaluation, market efficiency, optimism

The Party's Over: The Role of Earnings Guidance in Resolving Sentiment-Driven Overvaluation

Management Science 58: 308-319
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 05 May 2011 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2014
Nicholas Seybert and Holly Yang
University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance and Singapore Management University - School of Accountancy
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earnings guidance, investor sentiment, overvaluation, market efficiency, managers, disclosure

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R&D Capitalization and Reputation-Driven Real Earnings Management

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R&D Capitalization and Reputation-Driven Real Earnings Management

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 24 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2015
Nicholas Seybert
University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance
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R&D, earnings management, reputation, financial reporting, capitalization, escalation, investment, self-monitoring

R&D Capitalization and Reputation-Driven Real Earnings Management

Accounting Review 85 (2): 671-693
Posted: 17 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2015
Nicholas Seybert
University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance

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R&D, earnings management, reputation, financial reporting

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Causal Reasoning in Financial Reporting and Voluntary Disclosure

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Causal Reasoning in Financial Reporting and Voluntary Disclosure

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 May 2010 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2020
Lisa Koonce, Nicholas Seybert and James Smith
University of Texas, University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance and University of Lethbridge - Dhillon School of Business
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Causal reasoning, diagnosis, prediction, financial reporting, voluntary disclosure

Causal Reasoning in Financial Reporting and Voluntary Disclosure

Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2011
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 05 May 2011
Lisa Koonce, Nicholas Seybert and James Smith
University of Texas, University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance and University of Lethbridge - Dhillon School of Business
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causal reasoning, accounting, financial reporting, voluntary disclosure, bias, behavioral, experiment, psychology, diagnosis, prediction

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Who Stands at the Top and Bottom of the Slippery Slope?

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2014
Tim Brown, Kristina M. Rennekamp, Nicholas Seybert and Wenjie Zhu
University of South Carolina - Department of Accounting, SC Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance and University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance
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slippery slope, misconduct, fraud, moral reasoning, Machiavellianism, cognitive dissonance

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Regulation and the Interdependent Roles of Managers, Auditors, and Directors in Earnings Management and Accounting Choice

Robert H. Smith School Research Paper No. RHS 2602742
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 05 May 2015 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2017
Robert Libby, Kristina M. Rennekamp and Nicholas Seybert
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, SC Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance
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earnings management, earnings quality, accounting choice, financial reporting, auditing, corporate governance, experimental design, surveys, regulation

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Impaired Judgment: The Effects of Asset Impairment Reversibility and Cognitive Dissonance on Future Investment

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Impaired Judgment: The Effects of Asset Impairment Reversibility and Cognitive Dissonance on Future Investment

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 22 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 16 May 2015
Kristina M. Rennekamp, Kathy Rupar and Nicholas Seybert
SC Johnson Graduate School of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance
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accounting, standards, impairment, reversibility, reversals, managers, investment, R&D, IFRS, GAAP

Impaired Judgment: The Effects of Asset Impairment Reversibility and Cognitive Dissonance on Future Investment

Accounting Review 90(2): 739-759
Posted: 09 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 14 May 2015
Kristina M. Rennekamp, Kathy Rupar and Nicholas Seybert
SC Johnson Graduate School of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance

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impairment, reversal, investment, decision making, cognitive dissonance

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Investor Sentiment and Accounting Conservatism

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 09 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 03 May 2018
Rui Ge, Nicholas Seybert and Feida Zhang
Shenzhen University & Audencia Business School, University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance and China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
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Investor Sentiment, Accounting Conservatism, Litigation

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Short-Selling Pressure, Reporting Transparency, and the Use of Real and Accruals Earnings Management to Meet Benchmarks

Robert H. Smith School Research Paper No. RHS 2757150
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 01 Jan 2018
Kristina M. Rennekamp, Kathy Rupar and Nicholas Seybert
SC Johnson Graduate School of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance
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short selling, transparency, real earnings management, accruals, earnings benchmarks, managerial incentives

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Using the Unconscious to Improve Detection of Managerial Deception

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 15 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2021
Kristina M. Rennekamp, Kathy Rupar and Nicholas Seybert
SC Johnson Graduate School of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance
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unconscious thought, conscious judgment, deception detection, lexical decision task, implicit association test, managerial deception

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Contagion of Wishful Thinking in Markets

Management Science 55: 738-751
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2014
Nicholas Seybert and Robert J. Bloomfield
University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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behavioral financial, wishful thinking, motivated reasoning, contagion, laboratory markets, experimental economics, behavioral finance, market efficiency, anomalies, overconfidence, desirability bias, unrealistic optimism, markets, investors, investing, information aggregation

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CFO Narcissism and the Power of Persuasion Over Analysts: A Mixed-Methods Approach

SMU Cox School of Business Research Paper No. 23-11
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 19 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 21 May 2024
Charles (Chad) Ham, Mark Piorkowski, Nicholas Seybert and Sean Wang
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington - Kelley School of Business, University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Accounting Department
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Executive Narcissism, Persuasion, Sell-Side Analysts

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Management Speaks, Investors Listen: Are Investors Too Focused on Managerial Disclosures?

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2013
Lisa Koonce, Nicholas Seybert and James Smith
University of Texas, University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance and University of Lethbridge - Dhillon School of Business
Downloads 233 (253,072)
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Financial disclosure, management explanations, investors

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How Disaggregated Forecasts Influence Investor Response to Subsequent Earnings Announcements

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 14 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2018
Shana Clor-Proell, D. Eric Hirst, Lisa Koonce and Nicholas Seybert
Texas Christian University - Department of Accounting, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas and University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance
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Disaggregation, Multiple Reference Points Theory, Management Earnings Forecasts, Earnings Announcements

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Does Routine Labor Generate Routine Earnings?

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 12 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2023
Yi Cao and Nicholas Seybert
George Mason University - Department of Accounting and University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance
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routine, labor, automation, earnings, accruals, cash flow, persistence, predictability, analyst, forecast, occupations, managers, managerial ability

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Recruiting Dark Personalities for Earnings Management

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Recruiting Dark Personalities for Earnings Management

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 18 Feb 2021
Ling L. Harris, Scott B. Jackson, Joel Owens and Nicholas Seybert
University of Nebraska at Lincoln, University of South Carolina, Portland State University and University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance
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ethics, earnings management, employee selection, recruiting, hiring, accounting, management, job candidates, narcissism, dark triad, personality traits, experiment

Recruiting Dark Personalities for Earnings Management

Journal of Business Ethics, Forthcoming
Posted: 16 Feb 2021
Ling L. Harris, Scott B. Jackson, Joel Owens and Nicholas Seybert
University of Nebraska at Lincoln, University of South Carolina, Portland State University and University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance

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ethics, earnings management, employee selection, recruiting, hiring, accounting, management, job candidates, narcissism, dark triad, personality traits, experiment

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Valuation and Communication: Two Conflicting Roles of Stock Price

Robert H. Smith School Research Paper No. RHS 2707371
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 23 Dec 2015
Robert J. Bloomfield, Volker Laux, Nicholas Seybert and Michael G. Williamson
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Texas at Austin, University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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valuation, communication, stock price informativeness, switching costs

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Experienced Executives’ Views of the Effects of R&D Capitalization on Reputation-Driven Real Earnings Management: A Replication of Survey Data from Seybert (2010)

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Experienced Executives’ Views of the Effects of R&D Capitalization on Reputation-Driven Real Earnings Management: A Replication of Survey Data from Seybert (2010)

Robert H. Smith School Research Paper No. RHS 2616810
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 12 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2017
Nicholas Seybert
University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance
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real earnings management, R&D, capitalization, expensing, overinvestment, self-monitoring, survey, replication

Experienced Executives’ Views of the Effects of R&D Capitalization on Reputation-Driven Real Earnings Management: A Replication of Survey Data from Seybert (2010)

Behavioral Research in Accounting, Forthcoming, Robert H. Smith School Research Paper No. RHS 2754382
Posted: 26 Mar 2016
Nicholas Seybert
University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance

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survey, replication, real earnings management, R&D, capitalization, experiment, capital market pressure

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Seductive Language for Narcissists in Job Postings

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 25 Jun 2024
Jonathan Gay, Scott B. Jackson and Nicholas Seybert
University of Mississippi, University of South Carolina and University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance
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Narcissism, job postings, earnings management, accounting, financial officers, bending rules, executive recruitment, recruiters, hiring practices, language

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Investor Sentiment and Conditional Accounting Conservatism

2017 Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) Annual Conference
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 06 Jan 2017
Rui Ge, Nicholas Seybert and Feida Zhang
Shenzhen University & Audencia Business School, University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance and China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
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investor sentiment; accounting conservatism; litigation

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Seductive Language for Narcissists in Job Postings

Management Science, Forthcoming https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2024.05254
Number of pages: 58
Jonathan Gay, Scott B. Jackson and Nicholas Seybert
University of Mississippi, University of South Carolina and University of Maryland - Department of Accounting & Information Assurance
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Narcissism, job postings, earnings management, accounting, financial officers, bending rules, executive recruitment, recruiters, hiring practices, language JEL codes: J2, M12, M41, M51