Ciao-Wei Chen

• Ph.D., Accounting, University of Iowa, 2015
• Master of Accountancy, University of Iowa, 2008
• B.B.A., Accounting, National Taiwan University, 2006

• Assistant Professor of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016 to present
• Lecturer, University of Washington-Seattle, 2015-2016

• Chen, C. (2019). The Disciplinary Role of Financial Statements: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions of Privately Held Targets. Journal of Accounting Research, 57 (2), 391-430.
• Chen, C., Hepfer, B., Quinn, P., & Wilson, R. (2018). The Effect of Tax-Motivated Income Shifting on Information Asymmetry. Review of Accounting Studies, 23 958-1004.
• Chen, C., Collins, D., Kravet, T., & Mergenthaler, R. (2018). Financial Statement Comparability and the Efficiency of Acquisition Decisions. Contemporary Accounting Research, 35 164-202.

• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
• FARS Excellence in Reviewing Award, American Accounting Association, 2017

• Research Support Award, Campus Research Board, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016-2018

Financial Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis

Capital Markets; Financial Reporting; Corporate Investments; Merger and Acquisitions; Disclosures

• Advanced Financial Reporting (ACCY 410) Current authoritative accounting standards and applications to accounting practice. Topics do not represent the full range of financial reporting issues, but are selected based on relevance of the underlying business transaction, complexity of the topic, consistency of applicable standard with underlying reporting concepts, and transferability of the standard to other accounting issues.