Sha Zhao

Title: Associate Professor of Accounting
Office: 339 Elliott Hall
Email: [email protected]

Education:
The City University of New York - Baruch College, Ph.D. Accounting

Biography:
Dr. Sha Zhao received her Ph.D. in accounting from Baruch College – the City University of New York in 2013. Her research focuses on corporate disclosure, corporate governance, credit risk, debt contracting, SG&A expenditure, mergers and acquisition, CEO compensation, and short selling. She currently teaches Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, and Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting at Oakland University.

Teaching interests: 
Managerial Accounting, Financial Accounting, and Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting

Research interests: 
Financial accounting and capital market, credit risk, debt contracting, mergers and acquisition, CEO compensation, and short selling.

Awards:

• Best Reviewer Award for Hawaii Accounting Research Conference (HARC-2022), Shidler College of Business, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, October 2021
• SBA Summer Research Fellowship Award, SBA, Oakland University, May 2019
• Oakland University Founder's Day Recognition - Outstanding Research, Oakland University, April 2019
• Dean’s Research Award, SBA, Oakland University, October 2018
• SBA Summer Research Fellowship Award, SBA, Oakland University, 2014 - 2018
• Best Paper Award for Doctoral Students, The 2013 AAA Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting, April 2013

Journals and Articles:

“Do Rating Agencies Consider the Social Capital of the Firm in their Ratings?” Cheng, C.S. Agnes, Liu, Z., Guo, P., Zhao, J., Zhao, S. China Accounting and Finance Review (2024).

Banker, R. , Huang, R. , Li, Y. , Zhao, S. (2021). Do Accounting Standards Matter for Productivity?. Production and Operations Management. 30(1), 68–84

Darrough, M. , Huang, R. , Zhao, S. (2020). Spillover Effects of Fraud Allegations and Investor Sentiment. Contemporary Accounting Research. 37(2), 982-1014

Banker, R. , Huang, R. , Natarajan, R. , Zhao, S. (2019). Market Valuation of Intangible Asset: Evidence on SG&A Expenditure. The Accounting Review. 94(6), 61-90

Cheng, A. , Wang, J. , Zhang, N. , Zhao, S. (2017). Bowling Alone, Bowling Together: Is Social Capital Priced in Bank Loans?. Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance. 32(4), 449-479

Parkash, M. , Zhao, S. , Feng, Y. (2017). Accounting Conservatism and Auditor’s Mandatory Timely Interim Review: The Case of USA. Global Review of Accounting and Finance. 8(1), 10 - 26

Yu-Thompson, Y. , Zhao, S. (2017). CEO Inside Debt and Overinvestment. Journal of Accounting and Finance. 17(3), 83-99