Faculty Profile

Yin WANG

Full-time Faculty

Assistant Professor of Accounting

School of Accountancy SOA

Dr. Yin Wang is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Singapore Management University (SMU). He earned his PhD in Management Science (Accounting) from HEC Paris and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. Before entering academia, he led a team in the Management Control Department at BNP Paribas in Paris, where he focused on risk and finance within the leasing investment and finance sector.

Dr. Wang has published research in The Accounting Review, with a broad range of interests including disclosure and its real effects, advertising spill-over effects in capital markets, financial intermediaries, common ownership, ESG disclosure, insider trading, earnings management, regulation, and corporate governance.

A recipient of multiple teaching awards at SMU, Dr. Wang is dedicated to teaching Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting and Analysis, Financial Statement Analysis, and Private Equity across both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. His courses have been recognized as exemplary models for junior faculty and PhD students.

Education

PhD in Management Science, HEC Paris

Research Interests

Disclosure and Real Effects
Spill-over Effects of Advertising in Capital Markets
Financial Intermediaries
Common Ownership
ESG Disclosure
Insider Trading
Earnings Management
Regulation and Corporate Governance

Teaching Interests

Financial Accounting
Financial Reporting and Analysis
Managerial Accounting
Private Equity

Selected Recognition and Awards

SMU School of Accountancy Most Promising Teacher Award (School level), 2021, 2022
SMU School of Accountancy Dean’s List for Teaching Excellence (School level), 2021, 2022
Singapore MOE Tier 1 Academic Research Fund, PI solo-author, 2019
SMU Special Research Grant. Grant period, 2018
HEC Foundation Best Doctoral Thesis Award, 2018

Selected Appointments and Services

Ad-hoc reviewer for: The Accounting Review, 2019; AAA Annual Meeting, 2017, 2019; AAA FARS Midyear Meeting, 2020, 2022, 2023; AFC Annual Congress (Scientific Committee Member), 2023; European Accounting Review, 2020-2022; EAA Annual Congress (Scientific Committee Member), 2021-2023.
Discussant for: AAA Annual Meeting, 2017, 2018; EAA Annual Congress, 2019; LBS Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, 2017; HEC-ESSEC Joint Research Seminar, 2015.
SMU: UG (BAcc) and PG (MPA/MSA) Student Admission Recruiter, 2019-2023; Faculty coordinator of ACCT101 Financial Accounting, 2020; Co-advisor for PhD student in the PhD Thesis, 2022; Co-advisor for PhD student in the Empirical Research Project, 2021, 2022; PhD Reading Group Discussion Leader, 2022, 2023; SMU SOAR Accounting Symposium: Reviewer, 2018, 2020-2022; Moderator, 2018, 2021; Doctoral Consortium Breakout Group Leader, 2018.