Rate My Professor Wei Lu

Dr. Wei Lu is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting at Monash University, within the Faculty of Business and Economics. She joined the Department in 1992 from La Trobe University, where she obtained her PhD. Prior to her academic appointment at Monash, Dr. Lu gained industrial and academic experience both in Australia and overseas. Over her more than three-decade career at Monash, she has taught various undergraduate and postgraduate accounting units, including Financial Accounting 3 (ACB3120), Research Project 2 (ACF5004), and International Study Program in Accounting (ACX5951).

Dr. Lu's research specializations include accounting history, corporate governance, internal control, audit quality, financial statement quality, value relevance of intangible asset measurement and disclosures, assets revaluation across different countries, and globalisation of accounting standards. She has produced 29 research outputs, published in esteemed journals such as Accounting & Finance, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, Accounting Horizons, Abacus, and British Accounting Review. Select publications are 'Earnings management in the post-IPO years and their impact on the long-run stock performance of foreign versus domestic IPO firms' (2024, Accounting & Finance, with Janto Haman and Dharmendra Naidu); 'The role of voluntary internal control reporting in earnings quality: evidence from China' (2020, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, with Xianda Ji, Steven E. Kaplan, and Wenrui Qu); 'Changes in internal control disclosure and analyst forecasts around mandatory disclosure required by the China SOX' (2019, Accounting Horizons, with Xianda Ji, Wenrui Qu, and Vernon J. Richardson); 'Internal control risk and audit fees: evidence from China' (2018, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, with Xianda Ji and Wenrui Qu); 'Voluntary disclosure of internal control weakness and earnings quality: evidence from China' (2017, International Journal of Accounting, with Xianda Ji and Wenrui Qu). Her earlier contributions address Chinese accounting evolution, including 'Governmental influences in the development of Chinese accounting during the modern era' (with Xu-Dong Ji and Max Aiken), 'Origins and evolution of Chinese writing systems and preliminary counting relationships' (2004, with Max Aiken), and 'The evolution of bookkeeping methods in China' (2013, with Max Aiken). Dr. Lu is a contributing author to the book 'Perspectives on Accounting and Finance in China' and co-editor of a special issue of Accounting, Business and Financial History. Her scholarship supports UN Sustainable Development Goals 8 and 9.