The Department of Accounting is pleased to welcome Shawn Huang for an Accounting Speaker Series lecture on Friday, September 6. Huang is an associate professor of accountancy at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.

The lecture is open to the public with no charge for admission.

About the speaker

Shawn Huang is an associate professor of accountancy at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He joined ASU in 2013. Professor Huang’s research interests include the role of transparency and disclosure, properties of accounting numbers, executive compensation contracts, and international accounting. His research has been published in top-tier accounting and finance journals, including the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Economics, The Accounting Review, Management Science, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Review of Accounting Studies. His work has also been cited and featured in The Wall Street Journal, CFO magazine, Compliance Week, Accounting Today, and Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation. Before his appointment at ASU, professor Huang was an assistant professor at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri.

About the series

The Department of Accounting at Iowa State University hosts periodic research seminars and invites top scholars in accounting as our guest speakers to present their research. The Accounting Speaker Series provides a forum for faculty members, graduate students, and invited guest speakers to present and discuss cutting-edge research in all areas of accounting.

For more information about the speaker series, please contact Olena Watanabe.