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Yin Liu , Ph.D

Assistant Professor; Director, Master of Science in Accounting

(585) 395-5056
yliu@brockport.edu
Office: Hartwell Hall 106D

Education

• PhD, University of Massachusetts Lowell
• MAcc, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
• BBA, Jilin University

Research Interests

• Corporate Investment
• Executive Compensation
• Auditing Firms
• Financial Reporting Quality
• Managerial Gender Issue

Teaching Interests

• Auditing
• Intermediate Accounting
• Accounting for Not-for-Profit Entities
• Managerial Accounting

• Awards/Recognitions
  • Finalist of Brockport Presidential Teaching Excellence Award, 2019-2021
  • SOBAM Faculty Publication Award, 2020-2022
  • Brockport Discretionary Salary Increase (DSI), AY 2018-2021
  • Nominee of Brockport Roland Fontaine Award for Student-Faculty Engagement, 2018-2019 and 2020-2021
  • Brockport Discretionary Salary Awards (DSA), AY 2017-2018
  • Best Paper by a Ph.D. Student Award, AAA Northeast Region Meeting, 2016
• Recent Publications
  • Liu, Y., Neely, P., and Karim, K. (2022). “The Impact of CFO Gender on Corporate Overinvestment” , Advances in Accounting, 57, 100599.
  • Liu, Y., Gan, H., and Karim, K. (2021) “The Effectiveness of Chief Financial Officer Board Membership in Improving Corporate Investment Efficiency”, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 57, 487-521.
  • Liu, Y., Gan, H., and Karim, K. (2020). “Corporate Risk-Taking after Adoption of Compensation Clawback Provisions”, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 54(2), 617-649.
  • Liu, Y., Gan, H., and Karim, K. (2018). “The Effectiveness of Clawback Adoptions in Mitigating Over-investments – Does Board Governance Play a Role?” Advances in Accounting, 40, 61-75.
  • Liu, Y., Kim, T., and Karim, K. (2016). “Is Classified Board the Weak Corporate Governance? Evidence from Financial Restatements”, Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, 14, 141-169.
• Presentations

  Peer Reviewed

  • Liu, Y., Karim, K., and H. Choi. “Tournament Incentives and Corporate Overinvestment”, AAA Spark: Meeting of the Regions, Virtual, May 2021.
  • Liu, Y., Neely, P., and Karim, K. “The Impact of CFO Gender on Corporate Overinvestment”, AAA Annual Meeting, Virtual, August 2020.
  • Liu, Y., Neely, P., and Karim, K. “The Impact of CFO Gender on Corporate Overinvestment”, AAA Spark: Meeting of the Regions, Virtual, June 2020.
  • Liu, Y., Gan, H., and Karim, K., “The Effectiveness of Chief Financial Officer Board Membership in Mitigating Over-investments”, AAA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 2019.
  • Liu, Y., Gan, H., and Karim, K., “Corporate Risk-Taking after Adoption of Compensation Clawback Provisions”, AAA Northeast Region Meeting, Greenwich, CT, October 2018.
  • Liu, Y., Gan, H., and Karim, K., “Does Investment Efficiency Improve After the Adoption of Compensation Clawback Provisions?”, AAA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, August 2017.
  • Liu, Y., Gan, H., and Karim, K., “Does Investment Efficiency Improve After the Adoption of Compensation Clawback Provisions?”, AAA Northeast Region Meeting, Boston, MA, October 2016.
  • Liu, Y., Gan, H., and Karim, K., “Corporte Risk-Taking after Adoption of Compensation Clawback Provisions”, AAA Annual Meeting, New York, NY, August 2016.
  • Liu, Y., Gan, H., and Karim, K., “Corporte Risk-Taking after Adoption of Compensation Clawback Provisions”, AAA Southeast Region Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 2016.
  • Liu, Y., Kim, T., and Karim, K., “Is Classified Board the Weak Corporate Governance? Evidence from Financial Restatements”, AAA Northeast Region Meeting, Providence, RI, October 2015.

  Non-Peer Reviewed

  • Slusarenco, T., Liu, Y., and Singh, S., “Clawback Provisions after Ten Years: A Literature Review”, National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Bozeman, MT, March 2020. (2020 NCUR was canceled for the in-person presentation because of COVID-19 pandemic)
  • Zeng, Z., Liu, Y., Neely, P., and Karim, K., “Firms’ Operating Losses and Accounting Conservatism”, National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Kennesaw, GA, April 2019.

Directed Honors Senior Thesis

• White, H., “Top Executive Gender Diversity in Accounting and Finance Research: A Review”, May 2021.