Time: April 11st 2016( Monday)15:00-16:30

Location: Room 501, Jiageng 2-501

Moderator:：TonyRuan, Assistant Professor of Finance, Xiamen University

Topic: On ManagerialOverconfidence and Accounting Conservatism

Presenter：Kirill Novoselov, AssociateProfessor of Accounting, Nazarbayev University 

Personal Profile：

Kirill Novoselov is AssociateProfessor of Accounting at the Nazarbayev University Graduate School ofBusiness. Kirill earned his PhD in Accounting from the University of Texas atAustin and worked for seven years as Assistant Professor at the Hong KongUniversity of Science and Technology, where he taught graduate andundergraduate courses in financial and managerial accounting. After graduatingfrom Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics in 1993, he worked in theinsurance industry and earned his MBA at the University of North Dakota in2001. He served in the Soviet Army in 1986–1988.

In his research, Kirill uses theinsights from microeconomics and decision analysis to solve practical problemsin financial reporting, managerial accounting, and auditing. His principalareas of interest include corporate governance, internal organization,incentives and control in teamwork environments, and decision-making underradical uncertainty.environments, and decision-making underradical uncertainty.