Bo Zhang

Education

• 2012 Ph.D., Accounting, Baruch College, City University of New York
• 2006 Master, Accounting, Suffolk University
• 2005 Bachelor, Accounting and Finance, University of Bradford (First Class Honors)

Working Experiences

• 2017—Present: Associate Professor, Accounting Department, Renmin Business School, Renmin University of China
• 2012—2017: Assistant Professor, Accounting Department, Renmin Business School, Renmin University of China

Research Interests

Executive Compensation, Strategic Cost Analysis, and Corporate Governance

Courses

• Management Accounting
• Financial Accounting

Publications

Refereed Publications (in English):

• Ending at the Wrong Time: The Financial Reporting Consequences of a Uniform Fiscal Year-End, with Zhe Li, Kangtao Ye, and Colin Zeng, forthcoming in The Accounting Review
• Revenue-expense Matching and Performance Measure Choice, with Rong Huang and Carol Marquardt, forthcoming in Review of Accounting Studies
  
• Trust and Corporate Innovation: Evidence from China, with Ruixue Zhou and Wenxin Wang, forthcoming in Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance
• Why Do Managers Avoid EPS Dilution? Evidence from Debt-Equity Choice, with Rong Huang and Carol Marquardt, Review of Accounting Studies , Volume 19(2), 2014

Refereed Publications (in Chinese):

• Population Aging and Labor Cost Stickiness, with Yang, Limei and Tao, Tao, Accounting Research (in Chinese), 2022(1)
• Internal Governance and Capital Structure Adjustment: Evidence from the Perspective of Non-CEO Executives’ Independence, with Han, Yadong and Li, Guangzhong, Journal of Financial Research (in Chinese), 2021(2)
• Chinese New Accounting Standards and Capital Structure Adjustment Speeds, with Zhuang, Wenzi and Yuan, Hongliu, Accounting Research (in Chinese), 2018(11)

Honors and Awards

• 2015 The Best Research Award of Renmin Business School, Renmin University of China;
• 2012 Doctoral Dissertation Award of Graduate School, City University of New York.