Yinghua Li

Assistant Professor of Management

Accounting Area

Krannert School of Management

Purdue University

Office KRAN 510

Phone (765) 496-3510

Email yli@purdue.edu

Web http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~yli/

 

Academic Position

2005.8 - present
Assistant Professor of Management, Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University.

Education

Ph.D. in Accounting, University of British Columbia, 2005.

Master in Accounting, Renmin University of China, 2000.

Bachelor in Accounting, Northeastern University, China (with distinction), 1997.

Teaching Interest

Financial accounting; managerial accounting.

Teaching Experience

2010.1 - 2010.04
Instructor for MGMT 606 Doctoral Seminar in External Reporting at Purdue University.
2006.1 - 2010.04 Instructor for MGMT 503/590T Advanced Accounting at Purdue University.
2005.8 - 2005.12
Instructor for MGMT 350 (2 sections) Intermediate Financial Accounting I at Purdue University.
2004.9 - 2004.12
Instructor for COMM 294 (1 section) Introduction to Managerial Accounting at University of British Columbia.

Research Interest

Financial reporting and voluntary disclosure; shareholder litigation; corporate governance.

Publications

(Please click on my research webpage for details about my papers.)

C.S. Agnes Cheng, Henry He Huang, Yinghua Li, and Gerald J. Lobo, 2009. Institutional Monitoring through Shareholder Litigation. Journal of Financial Economics 95, 356-383.

Yinghua Li, 2009. Shareholder Litigation, Management Forecasts and Productive Decisions during the Initial Public Offerings. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 28: 1-15.

Joy Begley, Sandra Chamberlain, and Yinghua Li, 2006. Modeling Goodwill for Banks: A Residual Income Approach with Empirical tests. Contemporary Accounting Research 23: 31-68.

Working Papers

All-star Coverage and Corporate Transparency (with Raghavendra Rau and Jin Xu), 2009.

History Matters: Individual Analysts' Responses to Quarterly Management Guidance (with Mark Bagnoli and Susan G. Watts), 2009.

The Association between CEO Cash Bonus Compensation and Earnings Guidance (with Mei Feng and Guojin Gong), 2008.

Disclosure Regimes and Corporate Decisions around Initial Public Offerings, 2007.

Media Coverage

“Institutional Monitoring through Shareholder Litigation."
1.

“Institutional Monitoring Through Shareholder Litigation.” Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, May 2009 (Link).

 

Note: This blog post was listed in “Best Blog Posts and Columns For the Week Ending May 29, 2009” by Securities Docket: Global Securities Litigation and Enforcement Report (Link).

2.

“Institutional Investors, Securities Litigation, and Corporate Monitoring.” The D&O Diary, June 2009 (Link).

3.

“Yes, Institutional Investors Can Make a Difference in Securities Fraud Litigation.” Meaningful Disclosure (by Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP), June 2009 (Link).

4.

“Monitoring by Institutional Investors Is Still Critical.” Pom Talk: the Blog for Institutional Investors (by Pomerantz Haudek Grossman & Gross LLP), June 2009 (Link).

5.

“Institutional Monitoring Through Shareholder Litigation.” Point of Law: Information and Opinion on the U.S. Litigation System (by the Manhattan Institute), June 2009 (Link).

6.

“This Week In Securities Litigation.” SEC Actions, June 2009 (Link).

7.

“Institutional Investors Boost Success of Class Actions.” Berman DeValerio, June 2009 (Link).

8.

“Institutional Investors, Securities Litigation, and Corporate Monitoring.” Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse (SCAC), June 2009 (Link).

9.

“Institutional Investors, Securities Litigation, and Corporate Monitoring.” The Shareholders Foundation, June 2009 (Link).

Conference/Wokshop Presentations

“All-star Coverage and Corporate Transparency.”

2008
State of Indiana Finance Conference at the University of Notre Dame*.
2008
Purdue Accounting BKD Summer Brown Bag Workshop.

“History Matters: Individual Analysts' Responses to Quarterly Guidance.”

2008 American Accounting Association (AAA) 2008 Annual Meeting.
2008 Midwest Summer Research Conference.
2007 Purdue Accounting BKD Workshop.

“Management Forecast Errors and CEO Turnover.”

2007 Purdue Accounting BKD Summer Brown Bag Workshop.

“Impact of Institutional Investors as Lead Plaintiffs on Litigation Outcomes, Board Independence, and Earnings Management.”

2007 American Accounting Association (AAA) 2007 Annual Meeting.
2006 Purdue Accounting BKD Summer Brown Bag Workshop.

“Shareholder Litigation, Management Forecasts and Productive Decisions during the Initial Public Offerings.”

2006 American Accounting Association (AAA) 2006 Annual Meeting.

“Disclosure Regimes and Corporate Decisions around Initial Public Offerings.”

2005
Concordia University.
2005 Penn State University.
2005 Purdue University.
2005 State University of New York at Buffalo.
2005 Syracuse University.
2005 University of California at Berkeley.
2005 University of California at Los Angeles.
2005 University of Florida.
2005 University of Illinois at Chicago.
2005 University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
2005 University of Minnesota.
2005 University of Waterloo.

“Information Acquisition/Disclosure Decisions in a Productive Setting.”

2005 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) 2005 Mid-Year Meeting.

“Disclosure of Quantitative Forward-Looking Information around Initial Public Offerings.”

2004
Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) 2004 Annual Conference Craft of Accounting Research Workshop.

“Modeling Goodwill for Banks: A Residual Income Approach with Empirical Tests.”

2004
Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) 2004 Mid-Year Meeting.
2004
American Accounting Association (AAA) 2004 Annual Meeting*.
2003 Universities of British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington (UBCOW) Conference*.
2003 Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) Conference*.

*presented by co-author

Conference Participation

2008 AAA Annual Meeting, Anaheim.
2008 Midwest Summer Research Conference, Indianapolis.
2007 AAA Annual Meeting, Chicago.
2007 Midwest Summer Research Conference, Iowa City.
2007 FARS Mid-Year Meeting, San Antonio.
2006 AAA Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
2006 Midwest Summer Research Conference, South Bend.
2005 Midwest Summer Research Conference, West Lafayette.
2005 FARS Doctoral Consortium and Mid-Year Meeting, San Diego.
2004 CAAA Annual Conference, Vancouver.
2004 UBCOW Conferences, Seattle.
2004 FARS Doctoral Consortium and Mid-Year Meeting, Austin.
2003 CAR Conference, Toronto.
2003 AAA Doctoral Consortium, Lake Tahoe.
2003 UBCOW Conferences, Seattle.
2002 CAR Doctoral Consortium and Conference, Kitchener.
2002 UBCOW Conferences, Seattle.
2001 UBCOW Conferences, Seattle.

Professional Memberships

Member, American Accounting Association.

Member, American Finance Association.

Member, Canadian Academic Accounting Association.

Doctoral Students

2008 First-year summer paper advisor for Jae Hwan Ju.

Professional Services

Ad hoc reviewer for scholarly journals:

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance, and Annals of Finance.

Ad hoc reviewer for conferences:

American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Meetings, and Midwest American Accounting Association Meetings.

Discussant at American Accounting Association 2008 Annual Meeting.

Other Professional Work

1999
Co-translator of Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles 1999 (Patrick R. Delaney, James R. Adler, Barry J. Epstein and Michael F. Foran, John Wiley & Sons, INC.) for China Ministry of Finance.
1998 – 1999
Co-translator of Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy (Mark Grinblatt and Sheridan Titman, McGraw-Hill) for China Renmin University Press (Chinese Version was published on June 1, 2003).

Honors and Awards

Krannert Distinguished Teacher, MGMT 590T (Spring 2006 Module 3, Fall 2006 Module 1, Fall 2007 Module 1, Spring 2008 Module 1, Fall 2008 Module 1, and Spring 2009 Module 3).

AAA Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2003.

E. D. MacPhee Memorial Fellowship, University of British Columbia, 2000 – 2002.

Top Student Award, Northeastern University (China), 1997.

Jin Shuliang Scholarships, Northeastern University (China), 1994 and 1995.