Ke Wang, PhD
Contact
Associate Professor, Alberta School of Business - Department of Accounting and Business Analytics
- kwang6@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-1630
- Address
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3-30D Business Building
11203 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2R6
Overview
About
Education
PhD, Accounting, City University of Hong Kong, 2015
BBA (Hons), Accounting and Finance, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2010
Research
Research interest
Capital markets
Textual analysis of corporate disclosures
Stakeholder relations
Publications
"Is the tone of risk disclosures in MD&As relevant to debt markets? Evidence from the pricing of credit default swaps" (solo-authored), Contemporary Accounting Research, 2021, 38(2), 1465–1501, https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12644.
"Why do banks favor employee-friendly firms? A stakeholder–screening perspective" with Cuili Qian, Donal Crilly, and Zheng Wang, Organization Science, 2021, 32(3), 605–624, https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2020.1400.
"Readability of 10-K reports and stock price crash risk" with Chansog (Francis) Kim and Liandong Zhang, Contemporary Accounting Research, 2019, 36(2), 1184–1216, https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12452.
- Featured in: Alberta School of Business Featured Research, Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and Technology
- Data on modified readability indices: SAS, STATA, Readme
- Word lists: Compustat, Industry, Combined
Research grants
General Research Fund of Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2022–2024, co-investigator, HK$290,663
The Edmonton Journal Fellowship (internal), 2022–2023, principal investigator, C$15,000
General Research Fund of Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2020–2022, co-investigator, HK$242,000
SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2019–2021, principal investigator, C$54,670
Canadian Utilities Faculty Fellowship (internal), 2019–2020, principal investigator, C$15,000
Early Career Scheme of Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2018–2020, collaborator, HK$318,518
SSHRC Bridge Funding (internal), 2018–2019, principal investigator, C$5,000
CAAA Research Grant, 2018–2019, principal investigator, C$6,667
Teaching
Teaching interest
Managerial accounting
Financial accounting
Current courses
ACCTG 322 Introduction to Accounting for Management Decision Making
Courses
ACCTG 322 - Introduction to Accounting for Management Decision Making
In contrast to the external orientation of ACCTG 311, this course focuses on how to prepare and use accounting information for management decision making. Major topics include: the role of corporate goals, planning and control concepts, how costs behave and how to analyze and manage them, budgeting and performance measures. Prerequisite: ACCTG 311.