Cheng Tsang Man Professorship Public Lecture
Cheng Tsang Man Professorship Public Lecture
Prima Limited was one of the early supporters of SMU. In March 2000, just two months after SMU’s establishment, Mr Primus Cheng, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Prima Ltd, made an endowed gift of $1.5 million to SMU to establish the Cheng Tsang Man Professorship in Accountancy in honour of his father, the Honorary Life President and Founder of Prima Ltd. Internationally renowned accounting experts have held Visiting Professorships under this gift, conducting among them, joint research with SMU faculty and public lectures. The following public lectures were organised under the endowed gift.
2019
Date: Wednesday 24 April 2019
Topic: "IASB: Improving Comparability of International Financial Reporting"
Speaker: Dr Ann Tarca, International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
Cheng Tsang Man Professorship in Accountancy (2019)
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2018
Date: Monday 7 May 2018
Topic: "OCI and Relevance of Performance Measures: Recent Inquiry by IASB"
Speaker: Dr Wei-Guo Zhang, PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor in Accounting (SUFE), Professor in Accounting (Tsinghua)
Cheng Tsang Man Professorship in Accountancy (2018)
2016
Date: Thursday 4 February 2016
Topic: "Emerging Issues in Financial Reporting – What’s Next and How to Cope"
Speaker: Dr Terry D Warfield, PwC Professor in Accounting Chair, Department of Accounting and Information Systems, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cheng Tsang Man Professorship in Accountancy (2016)
2014
Date: Thursday 16 January 2014
Topic: "The Trade-off Between Independence and Informed Decision-Making in Corporate Governance"
Speaker: Dr Wayne Guay, Yageo Professor of Accounting, University of Pennsylvania
Cheng Tsang Man Professorship in Accountancy (2014)
2013
Date: Friday 18 January 2013
Topic: "Is Effective Financial Regulation based on Written Accounting Standards Possible in a World of Financial Engineering?"
Speaker: Dr Shyam Sunder, James L Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Yale University
Cheng Tsang Man Professorship in Accountancy (2013)
2010
Date: Monday 14 June 2010
Topic: "Accounting for Value: Is Fair Value Accounting Fair Accounting for Shareholder Value?"
Speaker: Dr Stephen H Penman, George O May Professor of Accounting, Columbia University
Cheng Tsang Man Professorship in Accountancy (2010)
2009
Date: Tuesday 20 October 2009
Topic: "The Role of Financial Accounting in the Current Financial Crisis"
Speaker: Dr Katherine Schipper, Thomas F Keller Professor, Duke University
Cheng Tsang Man Professorship in Accountancy (2009)