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• business_phone: 206-221-4835
• first_name: Weili
• last_name: Ge
• display_name: Weili Ge
• academic_service: Editor, Contemporary Accounting Research Editorial Board, The Accounting Review Editorial Board, Review of Accounting Studies Ad Hoc Referee, Journal of Accounting Research Ad Hoc Referee, Journal of Accounting and Economics Ad Hoc Referee, The Accounting Review Ad Hoc Referee, Review of Accounting Studies Ad Hoc Referee, Management Science Ad Hoc Referee, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Ad Hoc Referee, Journal of Accounting and Public Policies Ad Hoc Referee, Accounting Horizons Earnings Properties Track Editor, Editorial Committee for the 2013 Midyear Meeting of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) National Meeting Coordinator of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section for the 2013 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting
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• working_papers: "Prosocial CEOs and Accounting Information Quality” (with Mei Feng, Zhejia Ling, and Wei Ting Loh).
• positions_held: At the University of Washington since 2006
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• office_number: 554
• honors_and_awards: University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award, 2021 PhD Faculty Mentor Award, 2020 MBA Evening Class of 2021 Professor of the Year, 2019 MBA Evening Class of 2020 Professor of the Year, 2018 MBA Evening Class of 2019 Professor of the Year, 2017 Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 2016 MBA Evening Class of 2017 Professor of the Year, 2015 MBA Evening Class of 2016 Professor of the Year, 2014 American Accounting Association Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Outstanding Service Award, 2013 Ron Crockett Award for Undergraduate Teaching, 2013 William A. and Helen I. Fowler Endowment for Special Achievement in Accounting, 2011 Undergraduate Accounting Faculty of the Year, 2011 The William R. Gregory Faculty Fellowship, 2010-present The Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics for "Why do CFOs Become Involved in Material Accounting Manipulations?", 2009 First Prize, Chicago Quantitative Alliance 12th Annual Academic Competition, 2005 Best Paper Award for "The Persistence of Earnings and Cash Flows and the Role of Special Items: Implications for the Accrual Anomaly," RAST Conference, 2005 Robert D. and Janet E. Neary Scholarship, 2005 U.S. Representative, AFAANZ Doctoral Consortium, Australia, 2004 American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2004 Deloitte and Touche Doctoral Fellowship, 2003 William A. Paton Fellowship, 2001-2006 University of Michigan Business School Fellowship, 2001-2005
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• current_research: Predicting accounting misstatement/fraud, determinants and consequences of earnings quality, internal control over financial reporting
• consulting: National Office Research Intern for PricewaterhouseCoopers, New Jersey, 2004
• email: [email protected]
• box_number: 353226
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• professional_certifications: Certified General Accountant of Canada, International, 2000
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• graduation_year: 1999-06-29
• graduation_year_2: 2001-06-29
• graduation_year_3: 2006-06-29
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• curriculum_vitae: https://foster.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CV_Weili-Ge_January-2023-1.pdf
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• featured_research: <a href="https://magazine.foster.uw.edu/insights/economic-profiling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Foreign firms are held to greater investor scrutiny for accounting irregularities</a> <a href="https://magazine.foster.uw.edu/insights/financial-profiling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Financial profiling: F-Score can detect accounting fraud</a> <a href="https://magazine.foster.uw.edu/insights/who-cooks-the-books/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CFOs manipulate financials due to CEO pressure, not personal gain</a> <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1911-3846.2011.01097.x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Do CFOs Have Style? An Empirical Investigation of the Effect of Individual CFOs on Accounting Practices</a>
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• publications_copy: <em><strong>“Prosocial CEOs, Corporate Policies, and Market Value“</strong></em> Feng, M., Ge, W., Loh, W., and Ling, Z., (forthcoming). Review of Accounting Studies <em><strong>“Implied tradeoffs of chief financial officer accounting expertise: Evidence from firm-manager matching“</strong></em> Bernard, D., Ge, W., Matsumoto, D., Toynbee, S., (2021). Management Science, Vol. 67(9), pp. 5301-5967. <em><strong>“Internal Control over Financial Reporting and Resource Extraction: Evidence from China“</strong></em> Ge, W., Li, Z., Liu, Q., and McVay, S.,, (2021). Contemporary Accounting Research <em><strong>“The Price of Being Foreign: Stock Market Penalties Associated with Accounting Irregularities for U.S. Listed Foreign Firms?“</strong></em> Ge, W., Matsumoto, D., Wang, E., and Zhang, J., (2020). Contemporary Accounting Research, pp. 1-34. <em><strong>“Benefits and costs of Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404(b) exemption: Evidence from small firms’ internal control disclosures“</strong></em> Ge, W., Koester, A., and McVay, S., (2017). Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 63, pp. 358-384. <em><strong>“What are the consequences of board destaggering?“</strong></em> Ge, W., Tanlu, L., and Zhang, J., (2016). Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 21(3), pp. 808-858. <em><strong>“The Effect of Manager-Specific Optimism on the Tone of Earnings Conference Calls“</strong></em> Davis, A., Ge, W., Matsumoto, D., and Zhang, J., (2015). Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 20(2), pp. 639-673. <em><strong>“Predicting Material Accounting Misstatements“</strong></em> Dechow, P., Ge, W., Larson, C., and Sloan, R., (2011). Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 28(1), pp. 17-82. <em><strong>“Why do CFOs Become Involved in Material Accounting Manipulations?“</strong></em> Feng, M., Ge, W., Luo, S., and Shevlin, T., (2011). Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 51(1-2), pp. 21-36. <em><strong>“Do CFOs Have Styles of Their Own? An Empirical Investigation of the Effect of Individual CFOs on Accounting Practices“</strong></em> Ge, W., Matsumoto, D., and Zhang, J., (2011). Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 28(4), pp. 1141-1179. <em><strong>“Understanding Earnings Quality: A Review of the Proxies, Their Determinants and Their Consequences“</strong></em> Dechow, P., Ge, W., and Schrand, C., (2010). Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 50(2-3), pp. 344-401. <em><strong>“Determinants of Weaknesses in Internal Control over Financial Reporting“</strong></em> Doyle, J., Ge, W., and McVay, S., (2007). Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 44(1-2), pp. 193-223. <em><strong>“Accruals Quality and Internal Control over Financial Reporting“</strong></em> Doyle, J., Ge, W., and McVay, S., (2007). The Accounting Review, Vol. 82(5), pp. 1141-1170. <em><strong>“The Persistence of Earnings and Cash Flows and the Role of Special Items: Implication for the Accrual Anomaly“</strong></em> Dechow, P., and Ge, W., (2006). Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 11(2-3), pp. 253-296.
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