Yu Hou

Assistant Professor & KPMG Fellow of Accounting

Yu Hou is an Assistant Professor and KPMG fellow of Accounting at Smith School of Business. He has diverse research interests and has focused most recently on issues related to financial reporting quality, litigation contingency disclosure, and auditing. Yu has published papers in premier journals such as The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Review of Accounting Studies. He receives his PhD from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in 2013 and also holds a PhD degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). He received a CGA certificate from the Certified General Accountants Association in 2003. He has taught undergraduate core course Management Accounting at Smith School of Business and Rotman School of Management. Yu was the recipient of Research Excellence Award in 2017.

• Subject: Accounting
  • Room: Goodes Hall Room 445 West Wing
  • Phone: 613-533-3249
  • Email: yu.hou@queensu.ca
  • Website: http://www.yuhou.org/