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A new study from the University of Florida revealed how financial fraud can play a surprising role in the struggling accounting labor force.

The study’s co-authors—Assistant Professor Robert Carnes and Deloitte Foundation Term Associate Professor Paul Madsen, along with University of Oregon Associate Professor Dane Christensen—found that incoming students are actually more likely to major in accounting when local frauds occur during their formative years.

As part of his collaboration with the RightWalk Foundation, Matherly Professor Anuj Kumar built the EPInc platform – an AI-based integrated knowledge diffusion platform for K-12 schools. This platform aims to create a uniform and higher overall educational production (cognitive and non-cognitive) in K-12 classrooms with scarce educational resources.

In a new paper, Bank of America Assistant Professor of Finance Tao Li studies whether ESG funds trade the long-term sustainability of portfolio companies for greater short-term financial performance, focusing on how these funds vote on ESG proposals at shareholder meetings.

As millions of students return to school this fall, ABC News spoke with students and professors, including Clinical Professor and Executive Director of the Miller Retail Center Joel Davis, learning to navigate the influence of generative artificial intelligence.

The NASDAQ’s delisting, if upheld after appeal, is expected to have a direct impact on LifeWallet’s financial health. It can cost more to trade stocks that are not listed on NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange, said Jay Ritter, Cordell Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida. Delisting can also affect investor confidence.

A recent Journal of Marketing Research study by Camilla Eunyoung Song (Ph.D. ’21) and City Furniture Professor Aner Sela shows that when consumers use smartphones, which are considered more personal and private than other devices, they are more likely to choose unique, self-expressive items that speak to their individual personalities. Using smartphones elevates consumers’ private self-focus, driving their preference for unique options that are unconventional and individually customized in their online shopping.

As part of a series of insights from Matherly Professor Anuj Kumar, his latest post highlights how to improve educational production. He notes that one needs to improve the output of underlying education-generating processes and proposes a generic framework for enhancing the output of an educational process and classifying past interventions into this framework.

Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter lends his SPAC insights to this story about LifeWallet, the health-insurance claims company founded by lawyer John H. Ruiz, a top financial booster of University of Miami athletics, which faces another legal challenge after Miami healthcare provider Cano Health filed a lawsuit last week saying that Ruiz’s company owes it nearly $67 million. While their stocks traded for 45 cents and 12 cents per share, respectively, at market close on Tuesday, Cano and LifeWallet were among the highest-profile Florida companies in recent years to go public through mergers with special purpose acquisition companies (SPAC).

It’s a hot summer day. You head to the store to grab a few items; maybe groceries, maybe a few things you need for that home project. You walk through the doors into the much-needed air conditioning and then you spot it: a jack-o-lantern staring at you atop an orange and black display dotted with fun-sized candy and grinning skulls.

Why are you seeing spooky decor so early? Executive Director of the David F. Miller Retail Center Joel Davis explains.

Most EdTech applications focus on improving a part of educational production. However, these applications are suboptimal because they do not leverage other entities in the educational ecosystem (such as peers and families to motivate and support students) and connected processes (such as sharing students’ knowledge gaps with teachers so that they can provide additional class instructions), argues Matherly Professor Anuj Kumar, as part of a continuing look into the impact of EdTech in K-12 schools in India. In this article, he proposes an integrated framework of education production that shows how various entities in the education ecosystem participate in different education-generating processes to produce education.