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.

• Featured in: Alberta School of Business "Speaking of Research" Audio Podcast Series

"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

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.

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