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HKUST is Asia's premier accounting program, combining world-leading research, award-winning teaching, outstanding students, and a state-of-the-art curriculum to train tomorrow's leaders.  All faculty are PhDs from the world's foremost universities -  such as, Chicago,  Illinois, London Business School, Oregon, Oxford,  Purdue, Rochester, Texas,  UBC and  UCLA, - who offer cutting-edge insights and international perspective vital for career success in the 21st Century. HKUST's curriculum develops all-round knowledge, communications, professional and leadership skills that employers want.  HKUST attracts Hong Kong's best students and HKUST graduates earn top job offers and honors on CPA exams.  HKUST is accredited unconditionally by the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.  In 1999, HKUST became the first accounting program outside North America to win accreditation from AACSB, the premier accrediting agency for business schools.   According to <The UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings>, the Department ranks 17th worldwide in publications in top three accounting journals in the last ten years (2002-2011). <Learn More>
                          

 

 

HKUST places 2nd in Greater China
in Deloitte Tax Championship

 
Our Newest Publications
  • YOU, HAIFENG, Neslihan Ozkan and Zvi Singer. "Mandatory IFRS Adoption and the Contractual Usefulness of Accounting Information in Executive Compensation." Forthcoming in Journal of Accounting Research.
     
  • YOU, HAIFENG, Scott Richardson and Richard Sloan. "What Drives Stock Prices Move? Fundamentals v. Investor Recognition." Forthcoming in Financial Analyst Journal.
     
  • YOU, HAIFENG, Maria Nondorf and Zvi Singer. "A Study of Firms Surrounding the Threshold of Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Compliance." Forthcoming in Advances in Accounting.
  • HSU, CHARLES and Gilles Hilary." Analyst Forecast Consistency." 
Journal of Finance, Forthcoming.
  • LI, XI, Guodong Gao, Rodney Sullivan and Danielle Yu. "Sell-side Analysts and 
Gender: A Comparison of Performance, Behavior, and Career Outcomes." 
Financial Analysts Journal, Forthcoming.
  • LI, XI, "An Examination of the Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Cross-listed 
Foreign Private Issuers and the Legal Bonding Hypothesis." 
Journal of Accounting and Economics,Forthcoming.
  • HUI, KAI WAI, Sandy Klasa and Eric Yeung. "Corporate Suppliers and Customers 
and Accounting Conservatism." Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2011, 
Forthcoming.
  • ZANG, Amy. "Evidence on the Trade-Off between Real Activities Manipulation and 
Accural-Based Earnings Management." The Accounting Review. Forthcoming.
  • WANG, SHIHENG, Hongping Tan and Michael Welker (2011). "Analyst Following 
and Forecast  Accuracy after Mandated IFRS Adoptions." 
Journal of Accounting Research 49, pp. 1307-1357.
  • Yuan Huang and ZHANG, GUOCHANG. " An Examination of the Incremental 
Usefulness of Balance-Sheet Information Beyond Earnings in Explaining Stock 
Returns." Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance. Forthcoming.
  • Hao, Shengquan, Jin, Qinglu and ZHANG, GUOCHANG. (2011). "Relative Firm 
Profitability and Stock Return Sensitivity to Industry-Level News." 
The Accounting Review 86, Forthcoming.

  • HSU, CHARLES, Bill Kross. (2011). "The Market Pricing of Special Items that are Included Versus Excluded from "Street" Earnings. Contemporary Accounting Research 28, pp. 990-1017.

  • YOU, HAIFENG and Zvi Singer. (2011)."The Effect of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Earnings Quality." Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance.
    Vol. 26, 3, pp. 556-589. 

  • Hao, Shengquan, Jin, Qinglu and ZHANG, GUOCHANG. (2011). "Investment
 growth and the relation between equity value, earnings, and equity book value. 
The Accounting Review 86 (March), pp. 605-635.

  • HILARY, GILLES, CHARLES, HSU. (2011). "Endogenous Overconfidence in Managerial Forecasts." The Journal of Accounting and Economics 51, pp. 300-313. 

  • WANG, SHIHENG, Michael Welker. (2011). "Timing Equity Issuance in Response to Information Asymmetry Arising From IFRS Adoption in Australia and Europe." Journal of Accounting Research 49, pp. 257-307.

  • CHEN, KEVIN C W, Zhihong Chen and K C John Wei. (2011). "Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow and the Effect of Shareholder Rights on the Implied Cost of Equity Capital." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 171-207.

  • HILARY, GILLES, Yuk Ying Chang and Sudipto Dasgupta. (2010). "CEO Ability, Pay, and Firm Performance." Management Science, Vol. 56, Iss. 10, pp. 1633-1652

  • LENNOX, CLIVE, Jeff Pittman. (2010). "Auditing the Auditors: Evidence on the Recent Reforms to the External Monitoring of Audit Firms." Journal of Accounting and Economics 49, 84-103.

  • YOU, HAIFENG and Ryan Lafond. (2010). "The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act, Bank Internal Controls and Financial Reporting Quality." Journal of Accounting and Economics 49 Vol. 1-2: 75-83.

  • HUI, KAI WAI, Linda Smith Bamber and P. Eric Yeung. (2010). "Managers' EPS Forecasts" Nickeling and Diming the Market?" The Accounting Review, Vol. 85, No. 1, 63-95.

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