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Rong Yang

Saunders College of Business

RONG YANG IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING AT THE SAUNDERS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS.

She is an empirical researcher with publications in accounting, finance, and other business journals. She received her PHD in accounting and MBA in management from Rutgers State University of New Jersey. Before she joined the faculty of RIT in the Fall of 2012, she was a tenured associate professor at State University of New York at Brockport. She is published in a variety of academic journals such as Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of Business Ethics, Review of quantitative finance and accounting, etc.

Dr. Yang's primary research interests include the use of financial reporting information in capital markets, corporate governance, internal control quality, corporate social responsibility (CSR), analyst forecast performance, and corporate restructuring events. One of her articles (with Dr. Yaw Mensah, Rutgers University) was awarded the 2006 MBAA International McGraw-Hill/Irwin Distinguished Paper Award by the North American Accounting Society. In addition, another publication (with Dr. Beixin Lin, Montclair State University) was awarded the 2013 Bright Idea Award sponsored by the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University and the NJPRO Foundation, the public policy research affiliate of the New Jersey Business and Industry Association (NJBIA).

In collaboration with colleagues at RIT and other universities, some of Dr. Yang's recent studies focus on earnings management, which means that corporations may make aggressive accounting treatments to manipulate financial reports. Dr. Rong Yang, along with co-authors, published articles in Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR), Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (AJPT), and Journal of Business Ethics (JBE) about corporate earnings management strategies. In addition, she is currently working on several research projects related to audit pricing decisions and CSR disclosures.

Rong Yang
Associate Professor
College of Business

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