<h1>Accounting and finance research highlights AI's impact on business education and empirical studies of reporting, debt, disclosure, and reputation.</h1> The symposium focused on empirical accounting and finance research, highlighting financial reporting quality, disclosure dynamics, debt-market costs, and reputation spillovers from credit rating agencies. A panel examined technological innovation and AI's implications for business education and practice. Eight papers addressed forecasting misreporting, labor and product-market disclosure interactions, vertical integration's effect on private debt cost, trade credit responses to policy, collateral-driven misallocation, global target setting evidence, kinship's link to reporting quality, and reputation spillovers to bond issuers, with multidisciplinary discussion among leading academic institutions.