Regular biography
Prof. Ying Cao is an Associate Professor of Accounting at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of Accountancy. She holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Renmin University of China (1996), a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001), and a doctoral degree in accounting from Texas A&M (2007). Prof. Cao is also a certified public accountant of China and previously worked at Deloitte Touch Tohmatsu LLP. Her research interests include corporate disclosure and financial reporting quality, managerial incentives and executive compensation, and financial analysts. She has published in journals such as Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, and Review of Accounting Studies. Prof. Cao is also an Associate Director of the Executive Master of Professional Accountancy Programme.