Prof. ZHANG Liandong (張連棟)

Dr. Liandong Zhang received his Ph.D. degree (2008) in accounting from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and his B.A. degree (1999) in accounting from Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is currently a professor in the Department of Accountancy of College of Business. His current research interests include financial reporting quality, corporate governance, and taxation. He currently teaches Financial Statement Analysis.

• Financial Accounting
• Corporate Taxes
• Corporate Governance

Teaching Areas

• Financial Accounting

• The President's Awards - City University of Hong Kong
• Best Paper Award - MIT Asia Conference
• Excellent PhD Supervisor Award - City University of Hong Kong (College of Business)
• Research Excellence Award - City University of Hong Kong (College of Business)

Participating in or organising in a conference / an event

• Ljungqvist, A. , Zhang, L. & Zuo, L. (July 2016), "Sharing Risk with the Government: How Taxes Affect Corporate Risk-Taking", presented at The 2016 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting, Xiamen, China.
• Ljungqvist, A. , Zhang, L. & Zuo, L. (July 2016), "Sharing Risk with the Government: How Taxes Affect Corporate Risk-Taking", presented at 2016 China International Conference in Finance, Xiamen, China.
• Cen, L. , Maydew, E. L. , Zhang, L. & Zuo, L. (July 2014), "Customer-Supplier Relationships and Corporate Tax Avoidance", presented at The 2014 CAPANA Conference, Beijing, China.
• Cen, L. , Maydew, E. L. , Zhang, L. & Zuo, L. (July 2014), "Customer-Supplier Relationships and Corporate Tax Avoidance", presented at The 2014 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting, Chengdu, China.
• Kim, C. F., K. Wang and L. Zhang (29 May - 1 June 2014), "The Readability of 10-K Reports and Stock Price Crash Risk", presented at The Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) Annual Conference 2014, Edmonton, Canada.
• Kim, F. and L. Zhang (25-26 October 2013), "Corporate Political Connections and Tax Aggressiveness", presented at The 28th Annual Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) Conference, Ontario, Canada.
• Kim, J-B and Zhang, L (October 2012), "Accounting Conservatism and Stock Price Crash Risk: Firm-Level Evidence", presented at 27th Annual Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) Conference, Ontario, Canada.