Professor  Flora Kuang

Yu (Flora) Kuang is a Professor of Accounting at the University of Melbourne. She earned her PhD in Accounting from Tilburg University. She received her Research Master's degree in Accounting from the CentER graduate school, Tilburg University and a Bachelor's degree from Renmin University of China. She worked at VU University Amsterdam after PhD graduation.

Flora serves on the leadership and staff team of Melbourne Centre for Corporate Governance and Regulation. She is a member of the Center of Asian Business and Economics (CABE).

Flora has been serving as appointed contributor to Management, Control, and Accounting since 2008. She is an ad-hoc reviewer for The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Corporate Finance, The European Accounting Review, Journal of Business, Finance, and Accounting, Management Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, The British Accounting Review, Accounting and Finance, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, International Review of Economics and Finance, etc. She is an Associate Editor at the Quarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting (2017-).

• Publications
  • 'The Relation Between Strategy, CEO Selection and Firm Performance' in Contemporary Accounting Research (Forthcoming) | 2018 (with Bo Qin and Margaret Abernethy)
  • 'Does Obfuscating Excessive CEO Pay Work? The Influence of Remuneration Report Readability on Say-on-Pay Votes' in Accounting and Business Research 47(6) | 2017 (with Bo Qin and Reggy Hooghiemstra)
  • 'Say-on-Pay Votes: The Role of the Media' in European Accounting Review 24(4) | 2015 (with Bo Qin and Reggy Hooghiemstra)
  • 'The Influence of CEO Power on Compensation Contract Design' in The Accounting Review 90(4) | 2015 (with Bo Qin and Margaret Abernethy)
  • For more publications from Associate Professor Flora Kuang, visit SSRN.

Research interests