Ping Zhang
Bio
Ping Zhang is a Professor of Accounting at Rotman. His main research focus is on audit quality. Specific research topics include the impact of auditor liability, auditor size and auditor experience on audit quality. Ping’s research results are published in academic journals such as, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research and Accounting, Organization and Society. Ping is currently an editorial board member of Contemporary Accounting Research.
Academic Positions
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2017-Present
Professor of Accounting, University of Toronto
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2000-2017
Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Toronto
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1999-2000
Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Waterloo
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1994-1999
Assistant Professor of Business, Wilfrid Laurier University
Selected Publications - Papers
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Auditor Tenure and Quality of Financial Reporting
L. Chu, J. Dai, and P. Zhang
Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance
Issue:Forthcoming
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Informed Traders' Performance and the Information Environment: Evidence From Experimental Asset Markets
Lucy Ackert, Bryan Church, Ping Zhang
Accounting, Organization, and Society
Issue:Forthcoming
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Transaction costs and competition among auditors in local markets
Ling Chu, Dan Simunic, Minlei Ye, Ping Zhang
Journal of Accounting and Economics
Issue:65(1)
2018
Pages: 129-147
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The Importance of Client Size in the Estimation of the Big 4 Effect: A Comment on DeFond, Erkens, and Zhang
A. Lawrence, M. Minutti-Mesa, and P. Zhang
Management Science
Issue:63(11)
2017
Pages: 3650-3653
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The Joint Effects of Multiple Legal System Characteristics on Auditing Standards and Auditor Behavior
Dan Simunic, MinLei Ye and Ping Zhang
Contemporary Accounting Research
Issue:34(1)
2017
Pages: 7-38
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Audit Quality, Auditing Standards, and Legal Regimes: Implications for International Auditing Standards
Dan Simunic, MinLei Ye, and Ping Zhang
Journal of International Accounting Research
Issue:14(2)
2015
Pages: 221-234
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Can Big 4 versus Non-Big 4 Differences in Audit-Quality Proxies be Attributed to Client Characteristics?
With Alastair Lawrence and Miguel Minutti
The Accounting Review
Issue:86(1)
2011
Pages: 259-286
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Contracting Framing and Individual Behavior: Experimental Evidence
with Bryan Church and Theresa Libby
Journal of Management Accounting Research
Issue:Volume 20
2008
Pages: 153-168
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What Affects the Market's Ability to Adjust for Optimistic Forecast Bias? Evidence From Experimental Asset Markets
L. Ackert, B. Church, P. Zhang
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations
Issue:Vol. 66. No. 2
2008
Pages: 358-372
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Banks' Level of Capitalization and their Lending Behaviour. With Robert Mathieu and Sean Robb
L. Chu, R. Mathieu, S. Robb, P. Zhang
Review of Quantitative Accounting and Finance
Issue:Vol. 28, No. 2
2007
Pages: 147-162
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Precision in Accounting Information, Financial Leverage and the Value of Equity
with Glenn Feltham and Sean Robb
Journal of Business Finance and Accounting
Issue:Vol. 34, No. 7/8
2007
Pages: 1099-1122
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The Impact of the Public's Expectations of Auditors on Audit Quality and Auditing Standards Compliance
P. Zhang
Contemporary Accounting Research
Issue:Vol24, 2
2007
Pages: 631-654
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Leadership Structure and the Value of Debt Contracts: Evidence from the Canadian Market
R. Mathieu, S. Robb, P. Zhang
The International Journal of Accounting
Issue:Vol 41
2006
Pages: 119-140
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What is in a name: An experimental examination of investment behavior
L. Ackert, B. Church, P. Zhang
Review of Finance
Issue:9
2005
Pages: 281-304
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Asset prices and informed traders' abilities: Evidence from experimental asset markets
L. Ackert, B. Church and P. Zhang
Accounting, Organizations and Society
Issue:Vol.29. Issue 7
2004
Pages: 609-626
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Discussion of 'Independence in Appearance and in Fact: An Experimental Investigation'
Contemporary Accounting Research
Issue:Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring
2003
Pages: pp. 115-119
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Market Behaviour in the presnece of divergent and imperfect private information: experimental evidence from Canada, China, and the United States
with L. Ackert and B. Church
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations
Issue:Vol. 47
2002
Pages: pp. 435-450
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A Note on Capital Adequacy and the Information Content of Term Loans and Lines of Credit
with P. Andre and R. Mathieu
Journal of Banking and Finance
Issue:Vol. 25
2001
Pages: pp. 431-44
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Uncertain Litigation Cost and Seller Behaviour: Evidence From an Auditing Game
with L. Ackert and B. Church
Advances in Accounting
Issue:Vol 18
2001
Pages: pp. 77-104
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A bargaining Model of Auditor Reporting
Contemporary Accounting Research
Issue:Spring, Vol. 16, N0.1R
1999
Pages: pp. 167-84
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Negotiations, Deadlines, and Auditing: Experimental Evidence
with B. K. Church
Journal of Economic Psychology
Issue:Vol. 20, No. 4
1999
Pages: pp. 407-29
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Pre-trial Settlement and Audit Value
with Lynda Thoman
The Accounting Review
Issue:October
1999
Pages: pp. 473-91
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The Auditor's Objectivity under a Negligence Liability System
with Efrim Boritz
Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory
Issue:Supplement
1999
Pages: pp. 147-65
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The Implication of Alternative Litigation Cost Allocation Systems for the Value of Audits
with J. E. Boritz
Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance
Issue:Vol 12, No. 4, Fall
1997
Pages: pp. 353-72
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On Combining Evidence from Subpopulations into a Composite Conclusion
J. E. Boritz, S. Aldersley, and P. Zhang
Contemporary Accounting Research
Issue:V10 No 1
1993
Pages: 227-45
Selected Publications - Case
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Bach Music Inc.: Impact of Price Pressure, Capacity Constraints and a Special Order on Management Decision Making
L. Chu, T. Libby, R. Mathieu, and P. Zhang
Accounting Perspective, Forthcoming
Research and Teaching Interests
Teaches courses in financial accounting, managerial accounting and auditing. Research interests include auditor's independence, auditor liability, usefulness of analysts' forecasts, and bank's monitoring function.