Finance/Accounting Seminars: Pierre Jinghong Liang

Pierre Jinghong Liang is a Professor of Accounting at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Professor Liang received his Ph.D. in Business Administration (Accounting) from the University of Florida. His research interests are accounting theory and information economics; his research articles have been published in The Accounting Review, American Economic Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Public Economics, and Management Science, among others. His latest research focuses on disclosure theory, axiomatic foundations of income measurement, and team monitoring in agencies. Professor Liang's academic research won the AAA Management Accounting Section (MAS) 's Best Paper at the Annual Meeting Award in 2009, and his teaching won the "Excellence in the Classroom" teaching award at the Tepper School of Business, 2007-2008. His professional services outside Carnegie Mellon include serving the American Accounting Association (AAA) on its various committees, including the research advisory committee, and serving the Chinese Accounting Professors Association of North America (CAPANA) as an officer. 

Pierre's recent research examines bookkeeping graph computational theory and applications, detecting anomalous graphs in labeled multi-graph databases, and risk-limiting financial audits via weighted sampling without replacement.