Jenny Zhang

Current Teaching

• COMM 1101 Introductory Financial Accounting
• COMM/MGMT 1102 – Introductory Accounting II
• COMM 3105 Intermediate Financial Accounting I
• COMM 4112 Accounting Research
• COMM/MGMT 1102 Introductory Accounting II
  
• MGMT 2101 Introductory Financial Accounting

Research Interests

Dr. Zhang has a strong interest in pursuing archival research that looks into the association between financial reporting quality and several audit-related issues. Topics of particular interest include (1) accounting-based earnings management and real activity management, (2) effects of regulation and corporate governance on financial reporting, (3) audit market competition on earnings management practices.

Selected Awards and Honours

• 2020  Faculty of Management Research Star
  
• 2016  CPA Canada-CAAA: Financial Accounting, Assurance & Tax Research Grant for "The association between CEO pay ratio and stock price crash risks."
  
• 2016  Faculty of Management Excellence in Management Teaching Award (MET)
  
• 2007 & 2009  Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship

Selected Publications

• Does Banking Competition Compromise the Role of Bank Monitoring in the Capital Market? Evidence From Firm-Specific Tail Risk. Burke, L., Fang, X., Pennathur, A., and Zhang, W. European Financial Management. (2025)
• Social Networks and Managerial Rent-seeking: Evidence from Executive Trading Profitability. Fang, X., Rao, X., and Zhang, W. European Financial Management, 30(1), 602–633. (2024)
• Labor Protection and Stock Price Crash Risk: Evidence from International Equity Markets. Chen, W., Dai, L., Fang, X., and Zhang, W. British Accounting Review. (2023)
• Protection of proprietary information and financial reporting opacity: Evidence from a natural experiment. Callen, J., Fang, X., Zhang, W. Journal of Corporate Finance 64, 101641  (2020)
• Corporate employment, red flags, and audit effort. Chen, J., Luo, S., Zhang, W. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 39(1), 106710 (2020)