Jingru Gao, PhD in Accounting
Assistant Professor of Finance

Contact Details:
Telephone:  85902318

Email: jrgao@cityu.edu.mo

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Accounting, The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2024
• Master of Commerce (Accounting), The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2019
• Master of Management (Accounting and Finance), The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2017
• Bachelor of Management (Accounting), Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, China, 2015

Research Areas:

• Auditing
• Voluntary Disclosure
• Corporate Governance

Teaching Areas

• Financial Statement Analysis
• Introductory Accounting

Working Papers and Projects

• The Impact of Accounting Fraud on Auditor Quality Disclosures in Non-Fraudulent Audit Clients (with Vic Naiker, Like Jiang, and Rencheng Wang)
• The Determinants and Consequences of Disclaimer Disclosures for Audit Committees
• Mitigating Political Risk with Politically Connected Directors: Evidence from the US-China Trade War (with Yunhe Dong)
• Director Experience Breadth and Firm Performance (with Yunhe Dong)
• CEOs’ Organizational Identification and Voluntary Disclosure (with Zhenyang Shi)

Conferences and Workshops

• Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) Doctoral Program Poster Session, Department of Accounting Brown Bag Seminar, The University of Melbourne, 2023
• Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ), Australian National Centre for Audit & Assurance Research (ANCAAR) Audit Research Forum, International Symposium on Audit Research (ISAR), 2022
• Australian National Centre for Audit & Assurance Research (ANCAAR) Audit Research Forum, 2021

Awards and Grants

• Certificate in Tutoring in Business and Economics Program, The University of Melbourne, 2023
• Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) Doctoral Program Scholarship, The University of Melbourne, 2018-2023
• International Graduate Merit Scholarship, The University of Melbourne, 2016-2017
• Dean’s Honours List (Top 3% of Students), The University of Melbourne, 2017
• The Eric J. Ingram Prize in Auditing and Assurance Services (highest-achieving student in the subject), The University of Melbourne, 2016
• The Eric J. Ingram Prize in Corporate Reporting (highest-achieving student in the subject), The University of Melbourne, 2016
• The Eric J. Ingram Prize in Corporate Financial Policy (highest-achieving student in the subject), The University of Melbourne, 2016