WANG Rencheng
Associate Professor of Accounting; Programme Director, PhD in Accounting Programme; Lee Kong Chian Fellow
rcwang@smu.edu.sg
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Research Areas
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- Lee Kong Chian School of Business
- Finance
- Behavioural Finance
- Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
- Well-being and Stress
- School of Accountancy
- Accounting Information System
- Information System and Fraud Detection
- Corporate Governance, Auditing & Risk Management
- Board of Directors and Corporate Disclosure
- Executive Compensation & Contracting and Corporate Reporting Quality
- Audit Quality and Audit Risk
- Corporate Reporting & Disclosure
- Financial Reporting Quality
- Earnings Management / Manipulation - Incentives and Consequences
- Voluntary Disclosures
- Sustainability Reporting and Disclosure
- Financial Intermediation & Information
- Information Asymmetry, Analysts, and Cost of Capital
- Private Information and Public Disclosure
- Information & Misinformation - Media and Social Media
- Information and Labor Market
- Institutional Investors and Short Sellers
- Financial Performance Analysis
- Performance Evaluation and Forecasting
- Valuation
- School of Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
- School of Social Sciences
- Philosophy
- Psychology
- Cultural Psychology
- Yong Pung How School of Law
- Public Interests Law
Strategic Priorities
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- Digital Transformation
- Sustainable Living
Rencheng Wang joined SMU in 2019. He has previously taught at the University of Queensland and University of Melbourne in Australia. He received his Ph.D. from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Rencheng has a broad range of interests in research at the intersection of accounting and finance. His works have been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and The Accounting Review. Learn more about Rencheng at https://acrcwang.github.io/.
Education
PhD in Accounting, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Master of Accounting, University of Michigan
BBA, BS, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Research Interests
Voluntary Disclosure
Capital Market
Labor Market
Teaching Interests
Financial Accounting
Corporate Reporting
Financial Accounting Theory
Research/Co-Research Advisor to
YU Lei, SMU-ZJU DBA(A&F) (lei.yu.2022@dba.smu.edu.sg)
LIU Weiqi, PhD in Accounting (wqliu.2022@phdacc.smu.edu.sg)
Selected Recognition and Awards
Lee Kong Chian Fellowship for Research Excellence (2019–2021, 2021–2023)
SMU School of Accountancy Research Award: Most Outstanding Researcher (2021, 2023)
Best Paper Award of AFAANZ Annual Conference (2016, 2020, 2023)
AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium (2012)
Selected Appointments
AAA Annual Meeting Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Co-Coordinator
SMU School of Accountancy PhD Program Committee
Early Career Researchers Support Network (ECRSN)
Selected Publications
“Flu Fallout: Information Production Constraints and Corporate Disclosure.” (with Chen Chen, Leonard Leye Li, and Louise Yi Lu) 2023. Journal of Accounting Research 61 (4): 1063–108.
“Shareholder Litigation and Corporate Disclosure: Evidence from Derivative Lawsuits.” (with Thomas Bourveau and Yun Lou) 2018. Journal of Accounting Research 56 (3): 797–842.
“Management Forecast Consistency.” (With Gilles Hilary and Charles Hsu) 2014. Journal of Accounting Research 52 (1): 163–91.