Cheng Qiang

Biography

Dr. Cheng Qiang is Dean and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Accounting at School of Accountancy at the Singapore Management University. He joined Singapore Management University in 2011 as the Associate Dean (Research) at School of Accountancy. Dr. Cheng graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing and received his PhD in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US in 2002. He has previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Washington. An award-winning researcher and teacher, Dr. Cheng has published over twenty articles in leading scholarly accounting and finance journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Journal of Financial Economics. He conducts research on various financial reporting and disclosure issues, including how corporate governance and family ownership affect corporate decisions, how investors use accounting information for valuation purposes, how executives affect financial reporting and disclosure decisions for their self-interests, and how security analysts help disseminate information in the capital markets. Dr. Cheng is currently an editor of The Accounting Review and previously served on the Research Committee of the American Accounting Association (AAA). He is a Council Member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) and a member of CPA Australia. He served as the president of the Chinese Accounting Professors’ Association of North America from 2009 to 2010.

Research Interest

Voluntary Disclosure, Earnings Management/Restatement, Family Ownership, Corporate Governance, Equity Valuation, Analysts’ Forecasts and Recommendations