主题：会计研究前沿专题学术讲座（上、下）

　　主讲人：加拿大约克大学会计学Albert Tsang教授

　　时间：10月26日（周五）上午9:00-11:30;下午2:30-5:00

　　地点：B249

　　主办单位：betway必威会计系，betway必威财务与会计研究所

　　主讲人简介：

　　Albert Tsang is a tenured associate professor at the Schulich School of Business, York University. Before joining Schulich School of Business, he was a tenured associate professor at the CUHK Business School. He earned three Master’s degrees (M.Sc. MIS; M.Sc. Acct; M.B.A) and a Ph.D. degree in accounting from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2008. Albert has a strong capital market orientated research interest on corporate social responsibility, financial and non-financial disclosure, news media, and international accounting. Albert pioneered the study of corporate social responsibility in accounting. He has two Accounting Review articles in this area, which are among the first batch of the papers on this topic.

　　He has published a total of 18 publications in refereed journals, including 4 at the top 3 accounting journals (The Accounting Review), 1 at the top 5 accounting journal (Review of Accounting Studies), and 1 at the top 3 international journal (Journal of International Business Studies) plus another 3 in the Financial Times 45 journals (Journal of Business Ethics). Currently, he is serving for the editorial board of Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of International Accounting Research, International Journal of Accounting and Journal of International Accounting, Auditing & Taxation.

　　Albert also won 4 Hong Kong Government research grants during his first five year as a junior faculty member, totaling nearly CAD200k, representing the best grant application record in business schools in Hong Kong. Albert was nominated by the Dean of Schulich School of Business for the award of York Research Chair for a period of five years starting from 2018. Albert has been invited by universities in different countries (e.g., USA, Hong Kong, Canada, and China) to teach Ph.D. seminar in Capital Market research during the past years.

　　讲座主要内容：

　　(1) to introduce you to the major areas of economics/finance-based empirical financial accounting/capital market research,

　　(2) to familiarize you with research methods commonly employed in empirical financial accounting research,

　　(3) to develop your ability to critically evaluate and interpret empirical financial accounting research,

　　(4) to provide you with a solid foundation for conducting original research in financial accounting

　　and more importantly

　　(5) to help you be able to generate interesting research questions.

　　Your participation is warmly welcomed!