Bei Dong
Assistant Professor
Bei Dong is an Assistant Professor in the School of Accountancy. She teaches principles courses in the field, as well as courses in financial accounting and reporting and financial statement analysis.
Her areas of research interests include causes and consequences of alternative accounting choices, accounting regulation, voluntary disclosures, and capital markets.
Dong’s academic credentials include an undergraduate degree in finance from the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, an MS in finance from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and a PhD in accounting from Michigan State University. She is a member of the American Accounting Association.
- Vita (pdf)
room: BSN 3311 | phone: 813.974.0154 | fax: 813.974.6528 | bdong@usf.edu
Teaching
- ACG 6025 - Financial Accounting for Managers
Current Research
- “The Discretionary Reporting of Noncontrolling Interests and Its Association with the Market Assessment of Credit Risk”(accepted by 2010 Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics Conference; 2011 AAA southwest regional conference at Houston, TX; 2011 AAA conference at Denver, Colorado)
- “Earnings Announcements: Intraday Market Reactions and Timing Strategy” with Edward Li (University of Rochester), K. Ramesh (Rice University), and Min Shen (George Mason University)
Presented in the workshops of Texas Christian University, University of South Florida, Texas A&M University, and University of Michigan - “An empirical analysis of the decline in the information content of auditors’ going concern opinion” with Dahlia Robinson and Michael Robinson
- “Short Sales and Earnings Strings” with K. Ramesh (Rice University)
Presented in the workshops of University of Oregon, Washington State University, and University of South Florida - “Estimating the Permanent Component of Accounting Earnings Using the Unobservable Components Model: Implications for Cost of Capital Research” with K. Ramesh (Rice University)
- "Insider trading, Earnings Management, and Bankruptcy" with Dahlia Robinson and Michael Robinson
Service
- SOA instructor search committee 2010
- College of Business library committee 2009
- Supervisor of EMBA student summer project
- Grade Ph.D. students comprehensive exams 2009
- 2009 AAA New Faculty Consortium, Leesburg, Virginia, 02/05 – 02/08
- Discussant in 2008 American Accounting Association Northeast Region Meeting, Newport, RI, 11/06 – 11/08
- 2007 Financial QIP committee
