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Weili Ge
Assistant Professor of Accounting

PhD, University of Michigan, 2006
MS, Washington University in St. Louis, 2001
BE, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 1999
Certified General Accountant of Canada, International, 2000


Phone:   
 206-221-4835 Mailing Address:
Fax:
 206-543-9875 Michael G. Foster School of Business
Office:
Email:
 256 Mackenzie Hall
geweili@u.washington.edu
 Accounting Department
Box 353200
Seattle, WA 98195-3200
     
Faculty Personal Web Page:   http://faculty.washington.edu/geweili/

Specialties

    Financial statement analysis, accounting issues related to leases, earnings management, and internal control over financial reporting

Positions Held

    At the University of Washington since 2006

Selected Publications

  • "Accruals Quality and Internal Control over Financial Reporting," with Jeffrey Doyle and Sarah McVay, The Accounting Review,Vol. 82, Issue 5, 2007.

  • "Determinants of Weaknesses in Internal Control over Financial Reporting," with Jeffrey Doyle and Sarah McVay, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 44, 2007.

  • "The Persistence of Earnings and Cash Flows and the Role of Special Items: Implication for the Accrual Anomaly," with Patricia Dechow, Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 11, Issue 2/3, 2006.

  • "The Disclosure of Material Weaknesses in Internal Control after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act," with Sarah McVay, Accounting Horizons, Vol. 19, Issue 3, 2005.

Working Papers

    "Understanding Earnings Quality: A Review of the Proxies, Their Determinants and Their Consequences," with Patricia Dechow and Catherine Schrand. (Presented at the 2009 Journal of Accounting and Economics Conference)

    “Predicting Material Accounting Manipulations,” with Patricia Dechow, Chad Larson, and Richard Sloan.

    "Why do CFOs Become Involved in Material Accounting Manipulations?" with Mei Feng, Shuqing Luo and Terry Shevlin.

    "Do CFOs Have Styles of Their Own? An Empirical Investigation of the Effect of Individual CFOs on Financial Reporting Practices," with Dawn Matsumoto and Jenny Li Zhang.

    "Off-balance-sheet Activities, Earnings Persistence and Stock Prices: Evidence from Operating Leases."

    "Investment Decisions and Off-balance Sheet Leases: Do we Really Need Further Rule Change?" with Gene Imhoff and Lian Fen Lee.

    "Mutual Fund Portfolio Disclosure Frequency," with Jenny Zhang and Lu Zheng.

Current Research

    Predicting accounting misstatement/fraud; studying the implications of operating leases for earnings quality

Selected Consulting

    National Office Research Intern for PricewaterhouseCoopers, New Jersey (2004)

Honors and Awards

    The Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics for “Why do CFOs Become Involved
    in Material Accounting Manipulations?” (2009)

    First Prize, Chicago Quantitative Alliance 12th Annual Academic Competition (2005)
    Best Paper Award for "The Persistence of Earnings and Cash Flows and the Role of Special Items:
    Implications for the Accrual Anomaly," RAST Conference (2005)

    Robert D. and Janet E. Neary Scholarship (2005)
    U.S. Representative, AFAANZ Doctoral Consortium, Australia (2004)
    American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow (2004)
    Deloitte and Touche Doctoral Fellowship (2003)
    William A. Paton Fellowship (2001-2006)
    University of Michigan Business School Fellowship (2001-2005)

Outside Service

    Ad Hoc Referee for:
    Journal of Accounting Research
    The Accounting Review
    Review of Accounting Studies
    Contemporary Accounting Research
    Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
    Journal of Accounting and Public Policies
    Accounting Horizons

    The Midyear AAA Financial Accounting Research Section Meeting (2003)


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