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Jia, YongHong

Assistant Professor
Accounting
Office: G-190
Phone: 708-534-4970
Fax: 708-534-8457
Email: Yjia@govst.edu


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

Education

  • Ph.D. Business Administration, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2011 
  • M.S. Accounting, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2006
  • M.S. HuaZhong Technology University, China, 1993  

Publications

  • Cross-Country Analysis of Secular Cash Trends, with Mai Iskandar-Datta, Journal of Banking and Finance (36), 2012
  • Valuation Consequences of Clawback Provisions, with Mai Iskandar-Datta, The Accounting Review (88), 2013
  • Agency Conflict and Corporate Cash Holdings around the World: New Evidence, with Mai Iskandar-Datta, accepted for publication by Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 

Honors

  • American Finance Association (AFA) Doctoral Student Travel Grant (Denver, January 2011)
  • Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance at the Southwestern Finance Association Meeting (March, 2011) for the paper "Piercing the Corporate Veil: The Case for Clawback Provisions"  

Presentations

  • Internal Control Weakness and the Value of Cash Holdings, presented at the American Accounting Association Midwest Region meeting, St. Louis, October 2012
  • CEOs and CFOs Equity Incentives and the Pricing of Audit Services, presented at the American Accounting Association Ohio Region meeting, Kentucky, May, 2012
  • CEOs and CFOs Equity Incentives and the Pricing of Audit Services, presented at the American Accounting Association annual meeting, Washington DC, August, 2012 
  • Why Do Firms Hold So Much Cash? The International Evidence, presented at the Financial Management Association annual meeting, New York, October 2010   
  • Why Do Firms Hold So Much Cash? The International Evidence, presented at the Southern Finance Association annual meeting, Asheville, NC, November 2010
  • Piercing the Corporate Veil: The Case for Clawback Provisions, to be presented at the Southwestern Finance Association annual meeting, Houston, TX, March 2011

Research

  • Agency Conflict and Corporate Cash Holdings around the World, with Mai Iskandar-Datta, under review at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
  • Why Do Firms Hold So Much Cash? The International Evidence, with Mai Iskandar-Datta, under review at the Journal of Banking and Finance
  • Piercing the Corporate Veil: The Case for Clawback Provisions, with Mai Iskandar-Datta and Xinghua Gao under review at The Accounting Review

Service

  • Public Administration Search Committee: 2011-2012, Governors State University
  • Academic Director Search Committee: 2011, Governors State University
  • Enrollment Manager Search Committee: 2011-2012, Governors State University
  • Online MBA Committee: 2011-2012, Governors State University
  • Curriculum Committee: 2011-2012, Governors State University
  • Student Learning Outcome Assessment Committee: 2012-2013, Governors State University
  • Research Review Committee: 2012-2013, Governors State University
  • Accounting Search Committee (Chair): 2013, Governors State University
  • Ad hoc reviewer: Journal of Banking and Finance
  • Discussant: Southern Finance Association Meetings, November 2010, Asheville, NC
  • Member of Business Valuation Standard Committee: 2000-2005, China

Professional Memberships

  • American Accounting Association
  • American Finance Association
  • Financial Management Association
  • China Certified Public Accountants (CPA)
  • China Certified Public Valuers (CPV)