Shan Wang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Accounting, College of Business Administration Loyola Marymount University

  • Los Angeles CA

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Biography

You can contact Shan Wang at shan.wang@lmu.edu.

Shan Wang is an associate professor of accounting at Loyola Marymount University (LMU). She received her Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Oregon. Shan has a broad range of research interests in archival managerial accounting, financial accounting, and taxation. Her research adopts a multidisciplinary approach to examining the role that various decision makers, individually or as teams, play in corporate disclosure, financial reporting, and tax planning. She also studies executive and director labor markets. Her research has been published in leading journals in accounting, such as Journal of Management Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and Accounting Horizons, among others.

Shan has extensive teaching experience at Oregon and LMU. Her primary teaching roles include managerial and cost accounting with an emphasis on data analytics. At LMU, she created the first data analytics course (Accounting Analytics for Decision Making) for the MSA program in spring 2020, the first data analytics course (Strategic & Managerial Analysis) for the undergraduate accounting program in fall 2021, and a research topics course (Topics in Business I) for the inaugural DBA program in fall 2024.

Education

University of Oregon

Ph.D.

Accounting

2015

Areas of Expertise

Corporate Governance
Corporate Reporting and Disclosures
Executive and Director Labor Markets
Taxation

Industry Expertise

Accounting
Research
Education/Learning

Articles

The Effects of Top Management Team Age Diversity During a Crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of Management Accounting Research

2024-07-25

This paper studies the impact of top management team (TMT) age diversity on firm performance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Top Management Team Functional Diversity and Management Forecast Accuracy

Accounting Horizons

2023-09-01

I examine whether TMT between-member and within-member functional diversity affects management earnings forecast accuracy.

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Effective board monitoring over earnings reports and forecasts: Evidence from CFO outside director appointments

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy

2022-05-16

We expand on Ghannam, Bujega, Matolcsy, and Spiropolous (2019)’s evidence that firms appoint directors with accounting experience after financial fraud by investigating whether firms that file restatements or issue highly inaccurate earnings forecasts appoint individuals with CFO experience (i.e., a subset of accounting experts) to their audit committee.

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