Wei Li

Assistant Professor

Wei Li

Assistant Professor

Dr. Wei Li is an Assistant Professor of Accounting. He received his Ph.D. in Accounting from Carnegie Mellon University and undergraduate/master degrees from Tsinghua University. He was previously a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interest is in the role of information in the capital market and within the firm applying analytical (mostly) and empirical research approaches. He has published in top accounting journals, e.g., Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting studies, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, and Journal of Management Accounting Research. He teaches Intermediate Accounting, Advanced Accounting, and Managerial Accounting. He has earned multiple teaching awards, including the School of Business Dean’s Undergraduate Full Time Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.

Education

Ph.D. in Accounting
Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, 2008

M.S. in Accounting
Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, 2004

M.S. in Accounting
Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2002

B.S. in Engineering
Tsinghua University, Beijing, 1999

Courses

  • BBUS 211 Principles of Managerial Accounting – Undergraduate
  • BBUS 362 Intermediate Accounting – Undergraduate
  • BBUS 363 Advanced Financial Accounting – Undergraduate

Research and Scholarship Interests

Financial Reporting and Disclosure, Analyst and Management Forecasts, Earnings Management, Performance Measurement, Managerial Incentives, Cost Structure.

University of Washington Bothell School of Business
Assistant Professor – Accounting – 2019 to present

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Senior Lecturer – Accounting – 2017 to 2019
Assistant Professor – Accounting 2009 to 2017
Lecturer – Accounting – 2008

  • C. Chen, L. Di, W. Jiang, and W. Li (2023). “Supplier-base Concentration and Cost Structure.” Journal of Management Accounting Research, Summer 2023, Volume 35 (Issue 2).
  • W. Li, P. J. Liang, and X. Wen (2019). “The Economic Consequences of Expanding Accounting Recognition.” Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, April 2019.
  • Q. Fan and W. Li (2018). “Leading indicator variables and managerial incentives in a dynamic agency setting.” Review of Accounting Studies, December 2018.
  • W. Li (2014). “A Theory on the Discontinuity in Earnings Distributions.” Contemporary Accounting Research, Summer 2014.
  • School of Business Dean’s Undergraduate Full-Time Faculty Teaching Excellence Award,
  • University of Washington, Bothell, 2019 to 2020
  • School of Business Dean’s Undergraduate Full-Time Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Honorable Mention, University of Washington, Bothell, multiple years
  • List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois, 2011 to 2013, 2016 to 2019

American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Lake Tahoe, 2007

Everett Community College BAT
Board Member – 2022 to 2023

American Accounting Association