Rate My Professor Flora Kuang

Yu (Flora) Kuang is a Professor of Accounting in the Department of Accounting, Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. She holds a PhD in Accounting and a Research Master's degree in Accounting from Tilburg University, as well as a Bachelor's degree from Renmin University of China. Before joining the University of Melbourne, she was an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Professor Kuang serves on the leadership and staff team of the Melbourne Centre for Corporate Governance and Regulation and is a member of the Centre for Asian Business and Economics.

Her research specializations encompass corporate governance and reporting quality, executive compensation and performance evaluation, forensic accounting, social networks, and social capital. Professor Kuang has published extensively in top-tier accounting journals. Key publications include 'The Influence of CEO Power on Compensation Contract Design' in The Accounting Review (2015, co-authored with Bo Qin and Margaret Abernethy), 'Say-on-Pay Votes: The Role of the Media' in the European Accounting Review (2015, with Bo Qin and Reggy Hooghiemstra), and 'Does Obfuscating Excessive CEO Pay Work? The Influence of Remuneration Report Readability on Say-on-Pay Votes' in Accounting and Business Research (2017, with Bo Qin and Reggy Hooghiemstra). Additional works feature 'The Relation Between Strategy, CEO Selection and Firm Performance' forthcoming in Contemporary Accounting Research (with Bo Qin and Margaret Abernethy). She contributes as an Associate Editor for the Quarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting since 2017, has been a contributor to Management, Control, and Accounting since 2008, and serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for journals such as The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Corporate Finance, and The European Accounting Review. Her research on topics like executive pay and productivity impacts has received media attention.