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Diplomas/Degrees

Ph.D., University of Houston (2000)

Recent Courses

Accounting For Managerial Analysis
Financial Accounting

Teaching Specializations/Interests

Financial Accounting
Advanced Accounting
Cost Accounting
Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting

Research Interests

Capital Market
Executive Compensation
Business Ethics

Grants/Sponsored Research

Bender Award for Research, 2007
Bender Award for Research, 2006
President's Faculty Development Awards, 2005-2006
President's Faculty Development Awards, 2002-2003
President's Faculty Development Awards, 2001-2002

Other Scholarly/Artistic Work

Organizational adaptation in Converging and Diverging Technological Environments" (with Yang M., Leblebici H., and Yang M) (forthcoming)

Beating or Meeting Earnings-Based Target Performance in CEOs Annual Cash Bonuses (2006), Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, (4), 271-298.

The Role of Cash Flows in Executive Compensation: A Reexamination (2006), Contemporary Accounting Research(23), Spring, 227-265.

Executive Compensation and Earnings Persistence (2004), Journal of Business Ethics (50), 369-382.

The Effect of Earnings Persistence on the Usefulness of Cash Flows from Operations in Explaining Executive Cash Compensation (2004), Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting (1), 175-197.

Sprint Corporation: Ethical Decisions and Tax Avoidance Strategies (2004), Issues in Accounting Education: 19(1), 119-143

The Incremental Information Content of Earnings and Cash Flows from Operations Affected by Their Extremity (2003), Journal of Business of Finance and Accounting: (30), 73-116.

Analysis of Fortune 500 Firm Characteristics with Adoption of Currency SWAPS, (1998), Global Business and Finance Review, (3), 25-35

Honors and Accomplishments

Dean's Award for Academic Excellence, 2000
Heyne Scholarship, University of Houston 1999
Clark and Clark Scholarship, University of Houston, 1998

Professional Activities

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), 2000
Chinese Accounting Professor Association of North America (CAPANA), 2000
Reviewer for Globalization Conference, AAA 1999
Certification on Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Texas, 1996

Licenses & Certifications

Pass CPA Examination