Teaching Areas
Professor Zhang's teaching areas include principles of financial accounting and intermediate accounting.
Research Areas
Professor Zhang's research interests include corporate governance, earnings quality and equity valuation.
Publications
1. Effect of R&D Investments on Persistence of Abnormal Earnings (with Sharad Asthana),
Review of Accounting and Finance, 2006, Volume 5 (2), 124-139.
2. Does the Provision of Non-Audit Services Affect Investor Perceptions of Auditor Independence (with Jayanthi Krishnan and Heibatollah Sami),
Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, November 2005, Volume 24 (2), 111-135.
3. Auditor Litigation Risk and Corporate Disclosure of Quarterly Review Report (with Jagan Krishnan),
Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Supplement 2005, Volume 24 (Supplement), 115-138.
Curriculum Vitae
Additional Experiences
Dissertation Completion Grant, Temple University, Spring 2006.
Stanley Merves Award, Temple University, 2006.
Harry A. Cochran Research Center Award for Excellence in Research by a Doctoral Student, 2005.
American Accounting Association / Deloitte / J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2004.
Research Division, China International Capital Corporate (CICC), 2000.
Passed CPA (Certified Public Accountant) Exam of China, 1999.
Passed CGA (Certified General Accountant) Exam of Canada, 1999.
