Rate My Professor Yiye Zhang

In her teaching role, Zhang delivers courses such as Introduction to Accounting for first-year students and Auditing (BUS 4034) for advanced learners, held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:20 PM to 4:00 PM in Guzman Room 110 during Fall 2023. Her instruction has had a notable impact on students; for instance, business major Leo Pan identified her introductory accounting course as his pivotal 'aha moment,' inspiring him to pursue a sequence of accounting courses leading to internships and a dream job at PwC. Zhang's doctoral dissertation, titled 'CEOs’ Capital Gains Tax Burden and Earnings Quality,' was completed in partial fulfillment of her PhD requirements at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She co-authored the peer-reviewed article 'Earnings management risk and audit pricing: Evidence from big bath accounting' with Heeick Choi and Khondkar Karim, published in the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting in 2024. Additionally, Zhang has provided expert insights to the media, commenting on economic indicators like small luxury splurges as signals of national economic health in a 2024 Press Democrat article.