Costello College of Business Faculty Media Mentions

The Inflation Reduction Act includes a new minimum tax on the book income of corporations that earn over $1 billion in revenue, along with a tax on stock buybacks. These provisions are likely to change the tax planning used by the largest companies and their accounting firms. Accounting instructor Kevin Matthews spoke to Accounting Today about what these corporations may do. 

The Inflation Reduction Act includes an extra $80 billion in funding for the Internal Revenue Service over the next 10 years. Accounting instructor Kevin Matthews spoke to Accounting Today about why he believes this funding will be used to improve customer service for taxpayers as well as professionals.

Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, spoke to Clarín (Argentina) about a slight drop in inflation in the United States.

Brad Greenwood, associate professor of Information Systems and Operations Management looked into how peer-to-peer funding programs like Lending Tree may help people pay for abortion care. This article discusses his paper.

Since 2020, have COVID-19 case counts had any correlation with stock returns in certain regions? Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer and finance student Luis Paz-Perez examined this premise in an article for the CFA Institute. 

Laurie Meamber, associate professor of marketing, talks to WalletHub about airline credit cards.

"The importance of the supply chain for strategic and critical materials is not as well appreciated," writes Stephanie Halcrow, Senior Fellow at the Center for Government Contracting, in an op-ed for RealClear Defense.

“As women made gains in higher education, access to full-time employment, higher pay, and higher income positions—as well as with more households now identifying as led by women—this homeownership gap has shrunk over the last few decades,” says Eric Maribojoc, executive director of the Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship, in an article on the home ownership gender gap in The Balance.

Recently, retail innovation has accelerated to a level never witnessed before. Associate professor of marketing and director of the Center for Retail Transformation Gautham Vadakkepatt discusses the future of retail on this episode of The Future Of podcast.

Management professor Suzanne de Janasz shares some of the underlying issues she sees that keep people from negotiating on an episode of the Negotiations Ninja podcast.