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Gao, Xinghua

Assistant Professor
Accounting
Office: G-193
Phone: 708-235-7624
Fax: 708-534-8457
Email: xgao@govst.edu


Education | Honors | Presentations | Research | Service | Professional Memberships

Education

  • Ph.D., Finance, Wayne State University, 2012
  • M.S., Accounting, Wayne State University, 2006
  • M.B.A., Finance, Wayne State University, 2004

Honors

  • Wohl Publishing Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance from the Southwestern Finance Association for the paper co-authored with Mai Iskandar-Datta and Yonghong Jia, "Piercing the Corporate Veil: The Case for Clawback Provisions" March, 2011.

Presentations

  • Internal Control Weakness and the Value of Cash Holdings, presented at the American Accounting Association Midwest region meeting, St. Louis, October 2012
  • CEO and CFO Equity Incentives and the Pricing of Audit Services, presented at the American Accounting Association Ohio region meeting, Kentucky, May, 2012
  • CEO and CFO Equity Incentives and the Pricing of Audit Services, presented by co-author at the American Accounting Association annual meeting, Washington D.C., August, 2012
  • "Piercing the Corporate Veil: The Case for Clawback Provisions," presented at the Midwest Finance Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL, March 2011
  • "Piercing the Corporate Veil: The Case for Clawback Provisions," presented at the Southwestern Finance Association annual meeting, Houston, TX, March 2011

Research

  • Internal Control over Financial Reporting and the Value of Cash Holdings, with Yonghong Jia, under revision at Journal of Accounting and Economics 
  • CEOs and CFOs Equity Incentives and the Pricing of Audit Services, with Yonghong Jia, under revision at Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory  
  • The Monitoring Role of Internal Control: Evidence from Excess Value of Diversification, with Yonghong Jia and Ranjan D’Mello, under review at Journal of Accounting Research 
  • Economic Deregulation and Corporate Dividend Policy, with Ranjan D’Mello

Service

  • Written Communication AOL Subcommittee: 2012-2013, Governors State University
  • Oral Communication AOL Subcommittee, 2012-2013, Governors State University
  • Discussant: Midwest Finance Association annual conference, March 2011, Chicago, IL
  • Discussant: Southwestern Finance Association annual conference, March 2011, Huston, TX

Professional Memberships

American Accounting Association