M. H. Franco Wong
Bio
Franco Wong is a Professor of Accounting. His research focuses on the production and dissemination of accounting information and the use of accounting information for valuation and contracting purposes. He has written articles on the disclosures about derivatives financial instruments; the pricing of Internet stocks; the effect of employee stock option accounting on share repurchases and corporate investment; the incorporation of employee stock option dilution into equity valuation; the impact of securities regulations on equity analysts and cross-listed companies; the role of equity analysts in the pricing of financial statement note information; blockchain and initial coin offerings.
Academic Positions
-
2022-
Area Coordinator of Accounting, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
-
2018-19
Director of Faculty Recruiting, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
-
2015-
Professor of Accounting, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
-
2014-16
CPA Ontario Professor of Financial Accounting, Rotman School of Management
-
2012-14
Associate Professor of Accounting and Control, INSEAD
-
2011-14
CMA Ontario Professor of Accounting, Rotman School of Management
-
2006-15
Associate Professor, Rotman School of Management (on unpaid leave, 2012-14)
-
2001-06
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
-
1997-2001
Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
Selected Publications - Papers
-
Language and Management Forecasts around the World
with Yuyan Guan, Zheng Wang, and Xiangang Xin
Contemporary Accounting Research
2022
-
with Michael Jung and Frank Zhang
Journal of Accounting Research
2018
-
with Chen Feng, Nan Li, Barry Lu, and Mingyue Zhang
Working paper
2018
-
with Yuyan Guan, Congcong Li, and Hai Lu
Management Science
Issue:Forthcoming
2018
-
with Yuyan Guan and Yue Zhang
Review of Accounting Studies
2015
-
with Michael Jung and Frank Zhang
Accounting Review
2015
-
Financial Reporting Policy Committee of the American Accounting Association's Financial Accounting and Reporting Section: Accounting Standard Setting for Private Companies
with D. Bens, M. Bradshaw, C. Frost, E. Gordon, S. McVay, G. Miller, R. Pfeiffer, M. Plumlee, C. Shakespeare, and W. Thomas
Accounting Horizon
2014
-
with Gus De Franco and Yibin Zhou
Accounting Review
2011
-
with Feng Li
Journal of Accounting Research
2005
-
with Brett Trueman and Xiao-Jun Zhang
Journal of Accounting and Economics
2003
-
with Catherine Schrand
Contemporary Accounting Research
2003
-
with Daniel Bens, Venky Nagar, and Douglas Skinner
Journal of Accounting and Economics
2003
-
with Brett Trueman and Xiao-Jun Zhang
Review of Accounting Studies
2001
-
with Brett Trueman and Xiao-Jun Zhang
Journal of Accounting Research
2000
-
Journal of Accounting Research
2000
Selected Publications - Books and Chapters
-
by Wong, Hanlon, Magee, and Pfeiffer
Cambridge Business Publishers
2023
-
Financial Accounting using IFRS, Second Edition
by Wong, Dyckman, Hanlon, Magee, and Pfeiffer
Cambridge Business Publishers
2017
-
Financial Accounting, First IFRS Edition
by Wong, Dyckman, Magee, and Pfeiffer
Cambridge Business Publishers
2015
Research and Teaching Interests
Financial reporting and analysis, buy-side and sell-side analyst research, data analytics, emerging technologies in accounting
Honors and Awards
-
2022-2027
Insight Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
-
2015-2020
Insight Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
-
2015
Rotman School of Management Teaching Award (MBA program), University of Toronto
-
2012
Excellence in Teaching Award (MBA program), University of Toronto (Rotman)
-
2011-2014
Standard Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
-
2008-2011
Standard Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
-
2006-2008
Connaught Award, University of Toronto
-
2003-2004
William Ladany Faculty Research Scholar, University of Chicago (Booth)
-
2003-2004
Ernest R. Wish Accounting Research Award, University of Chicago (Booth)
-
1999-2001
Club 6 for Teaching Excellence (MBA Program), University of California at Berkeley (Haas)
-
1998-2001
Faculty Research Grant, University of California at Berkeley
Academic / Professional Service
-
2013-2018
Program Committee Member, The MIT Asia Conference in Accounting
-
2013
Co-organizer, The Inaugural INSEAD Accounting Symposium, INSEAD
-
2012-2013
President, Chinese Accounting Professors' Association of North America (CAPANA)
-
2013
Co-organizer, The 6th CAPANA Research Conference, University of Hong Kong
-
2012
Co-organizer, The 5th CAPANA Research Conference, Xi'an Jiaotong University
-
2008-2011
Co-organizer, The Annual Toronto Accounting Research Conference, Rotman School of Management
-
2007
Organizer, The First Toronto Accounting Research Conference, Rotman School of Management