Dept：Accounting
Academic Title：Professor
Tel：86-10-62514992
Email：zhangbo@rmbs.ruc.edu.cn
Overview
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
2024.08—Present: Professor, Accounting Department, Renmin Business School, Renmin University of China
2017—2024.08: 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, The Accounting Review, 98(3), 2023
Revenue-expense Matching and Performance Measure Choice, with Rong Huang and Carol Marquardt, Review of Accounting Studies,28(3), 2023
Why Do Managers Avoid EPS Dilution? Evidence from Debt-Equity Choice, with Rong Huang and Carol Marquardt, Review of Accounting Studies, 19(2), 2014
Internal Governance and Cost Stickiness, with Limei Yang and Ruixue Zhou, Journal of Management Accounting Research, 35(1), 2023
Trust and Corporate Innovation: Evidence from China, with Ruixue Zhou and Wenxin Wang, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, 29(4),2024
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)
Services & Awards
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