Brian Bratten

University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy

Associate Professor

Lexington, KY 40506

United States

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Fair Value Exposure, Auditor Specialization, and Banks’ Discretionary Use of the Loan Loss Provision

Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2017
Brian Bratten, Monika Causholli and Linda A. Myers
University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy, University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy and University of Tennessee, Haslam College of Business, Accounting and Information Management
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Fair Value Accounting, Auditor Specialization, Earnings Management, Loan Loss Provision

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The Audit of Fair Values and Other Estimates: The Effects of Underlying Environmental, Task, and Auditor-Specific Factors

Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Vol. 32, No. Supplement-1, pp. 7-44
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 24 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2013
Brian Bratten, Lisa Milici Gaynor, Linda S. McDaniel, Norma R. Montague and Gregory E Sierra
University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy, University of South Florida - School of Accountancy, University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy, Wake Forest University - School of Business and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
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fair values, estimates, audit judgment, audit deficiencies

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Earning Management: Do Firms Play 'Follow the Leader'?

Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 616-643, 2016
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 31 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2016
Brian Bratten, Jeff L. Payne and Wayne B. Thomas
University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy, University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy and University of Oklahoma
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earnings management, information transfer, analysts’ forecasts

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Usefulness of Fair Values for Predicting Banks’ Future Earnings: Evidence from Other Comprehensive Income and Its Components

Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 280-315, 2016
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2016
Brian Bratten, Monika Causholli and Urooj Khan
University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy, University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy and Columbia Business School - Accounting, Business Law & Taxation
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Earnings, Other Comprehensive Income, Fair value, Predictability

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The Effect of Using a Lattice Model to Estimate Reported Option Values

AAA 2009 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) Paper, Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 193-222, McCombs Research Paper Series No. ACC-02-09
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 04 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2015
Brian Bratten, Ross Jennings and Casey M. Schwab
University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Accounting and University of North Texas
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stock options, valuation models, SFAS 123R, fair values

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Overseeing the External Audit Function: Evidence from Audit Committees’ Reported Activities

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 14 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 26 May 2020
Brian Bratten, Monika Causholli and Valbona Sulcaj
University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy, University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy and University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy
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Audit Committees, Audit Quality, Financial Reporting

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Audit Firm Tenure, Bank Complexity, and Financial Reporting Quality

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2017
Brian Bratten, Monika Causholli and Thomas C. Omer
University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy, University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy and University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy
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audit tenure, banking, mandatory rotation, complexity

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The Accuracy of Disclosures for Complex Estimates: Evidence from Reported Stock Option Fair Values

Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 52, pp. 32-49, 2016
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 07 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2016
Brian Bratten, Ross Jennings and Casey M. Schwab
University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Accounting and University of North Texas
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Employee stock options, fair values, disclosure quality, complex estimates

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Filling in the GAAPs in Individual Analysts’ Street Earnings Forecasts

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2019
Brian Bratten, Stephannie Larocque and Teri Lombardi Yohn
University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy, University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting
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Analysts, Forecasts, Street vs. GAAP, Exclusions

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On the Informativeness of Unexpected Exclusions from Street Earnings

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 24 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2020
Brian Bratten, Stephannie Larocque and Teri Lombardi Yohn
University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy, University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting
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Analysts, Forecasts, Street vs. GAAP, Exclusions

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Institutional Ownership and CEO Equity Incentives

Journal of Management Accounting Research, Vol. 29, No. 3, p. 55-77, 2017
Posted: 15 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2017
Brian Bratten and Yanfeng Xue
University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy and George Washington University - Department of Accountancy

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CEO Equity Incentives, Executive Compensation, Institutional Monitoring, Firm Performance

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Forecasting Taxes: New Evidence from Analysts

Accounting Review, Vol. 92, No. 3, p. 1-29, 2017
Posted: 20 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2017
Brian Bratten, Cristi A. Gleason, Stephannie Larocque and Lillian F. Mills
University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy, University of Iowa - Department of Accounting, University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business and University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business

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Analysts, Income tax, ETR forecasts, Accuracy, Dispersion, Integral method

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Retroactive Tax Legislation, Reported Earnings, and Investors' Responses to Earnings 'Surprises': Evidence from R&D Credit Extensions

Journal of American Taxation Association, Vol. 38, No. 2, p. 87-109, 2016
Posted: 28 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2017
Brian Bratten and David S. Hulse
University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy and University of Kentucky - Gatton College of Business and Economics

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R&D credit, earnings expectations, effective tax rates

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Evidence that Market Participants Assess Recognized and Disclosed Items Similarly When Reliability Is Not an Issue

Accounting Review, Vol. 88, No. 4, pp. 1179-1210, 2013
Posted: 30 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2015
Brian Bratten, Preeti Choudhary and Katherine Schipper
University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy, University of Arizona, Eller College of Management and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business

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recognition vs. disclosure, reliability, leases, costs of capital