Dr. Liu joined the Goodman School of Business in 2010. He received his PhD in Accounting from Queen's University in Ontario, MBA from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, and MA from Kent State University in Ohio. At Goodman, Dr. Liu has taught Introductory Financial Accounting, Introductory Managerial Accounting, Intermediate Accounting, and Advanced Financial Accounting as well as graduate level courses.

Prior to joining Brock, Dr. Liu taught at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Liu also worked as a project manager for PolyOne Corporation in Ohio.

At Goodman, Dr. Liu has been a member of the BBA Analytics committee, MBA Review and Reaccreditation committee, MAcc program committee, the selection board of the Teaching Excellence Award, and the accounting department recruiting committee. Periodically, he has reviewed for the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference, the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA), and the Asian Review of Accounting.

RESEARCH AREA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Liu, M. and Liu, Z.. Does annual report readability explain the accrual anomaly?, Asian Review of Accounting, Volume 29, Number 3, 2021.

Brown, K., Elayan, F., Liu, Z. and Li, J.. Comparing the financial reporting quality of Chinese and US public firms, China Finance Review, Volume 8, Number 4, 2018.

Elayan, F., Li, J., Liu, Z. and Felton, S.. Changes in the Covalence Ethical Quote, Financial Performance and Financial Reporting, Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 134, Number 3, 2016.

Brown, K., Elayan, F., Li, J., Mohammad, E., Pacharn, P. and Liu, Z.. To Exempt or Not to Exempt Non-Accelerated Filers from Compliance with the Auditor Attestation Requirement of Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Research in Accounting Regulation, Volume 28, Number 2, 2016.

Liu, Z. and Elayan, F.. Litigation risk, Information Asymmetry and Conditional Conservatism, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Volume 45, Number 4, January, 2015.

Alam, P, Liu, Z., Peng, X and Qi, Y. Legal Origin, Investor Perception, and Pricing of Accruals for Cross-listed Firms, Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, 2015.

Alam, P., Liu, M., Liu, Z. and Peng, X.. Stock options, idiosyncratic volatility, and earnings quality, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, Volume 18, Number 2, 2015.

Liu, Z., Thornton, D and Elayan, F.. Litigation Cost, Market-to-Book, and Asymmetric Timeliness of earnings, International Journal of Finance and Accounting Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, Winter, 2013.

Conference Proceedings and Presentations

Ke, Y. and Liu, Z.. General counsel and the value of cash holding - Convergence on the Financial and Managerial Accounting Research Conference, Banff, Alberta, 2017.

Brown, K., Elayan, F., Li, J. and Liu, Z.. Perception versus reality: Do Chinese firms carry elevated risk of accounting fraud? - Accounting and Financial Management, Sanya, China, 2016.

Liu, Z., Peng, X., Qi, Y. and Tian, S.. A Policy-risk Analysis of China's B-share Discount and Investment strategies - NCTU International Finance Conference, Taiwan, China, 2015.

Liu, Z., Elayan, F., Li, J. and Brown, K.. Chinese Firms Has Better Financial Reporting Quality: A Study of Chinese Reverse Mergers - Multinational Finance Society Conference, Halkidiki, Greece, 2015.

Liu, Z. and Peng, X.. Does annual report readability explain the accrual anomaly? - Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, Hobart, Australia, 2015.

Brown, K., Elayan, F., Li, J. and Liu, Z.. Perception versus reality: a comparative study of the financial reporting quality at Chinese and U.S. firms - The 8th Multi-disciplinary Symposium of Chinese Professors, Niagara on the lake, Ontario, August, 2014.

Brown, K., Elayan, F., Li, J. and Liu, Z.. Stop bashing: Chinese firms even have better financial reporting quality - AAA Annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia, August, 2014.

Brown, K., Elayan, F., Li, J. and Liu, Z.. Perception versus reality: a comparative study of the financial reporting quality at Chinese and U.S. firms - China Finance Review International Conference, Shanghai, China, July, 2014.

Elayan, F., Felton, S., Li, J. and Liu, Z.. Ethics index, ethical performance, financial performance and quality of financial reporting - Administrative Sciences Association of Canada annual conference, Muskoka, Ontario, May, 2014.

Elayan, F., Felton, S., Li, J. and Liu, Z.. Ethics index, ethical performance, financial performance and quality of financial reporting - CAAA Annual conference, Edmonton, Alberta, May, 2014.

Elayan, F., Brown, K., Li, J. and Liu, Z.. Stop bashing: Chinese firms even have better financial reporting quality - ASAC Annual conference, Muskoka, Ontario, May, 2014.

Brown, K., Elayan, F., Li, J. and Liu, Z.. Stop bashing: Chinese firms even have better financial reporting quality - CAAA Annual conference, Edmonton, Alberta, May, 2014.

Brown, K., Elayan, F., Li, J. and Liu, Z.. Perception vs. Reality: A comparative study of financial reporting quality at the Chinese and US firms - American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 2014.

Liu, Z., Elayan, F., Li, J. and Brown, K.. Perception vs. Reality: A comparative study of financial reporting quality at the Chinese and US firms - Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) Annual Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, 2014.

Liu, Z., Elayan, F., Li, J. and Brown, K.. Perception vs. Reality: A comparative study of financial reporting quality at the Chinese and US firms - Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference, Muskoka, Ontario, 2014.

Elayan, F., Li, J., Liu, Z., Meyer, T and Felton, S.. Ethical Performance, Financial Performance and the Quality of Financial Reporting - World Finance & Banking Symposium, Beijing, China, December, 2013.

Alam, P, Liu, M, Liu, Z. and Peng, S. Do stock options create incentives for managers to reduce earnings quality? The role of idiosyncratic return volatility - the 21st Pacific Basin Finance Accounting Economics and Management conference,, Melbourne, Australia, July, 2013.

Elayan, F., Li, J., Liu, Z. and Meyers, T. Ethics index, ethical performance, financial performance and quality of financial reporting - Academy of Business Research Spring International Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, March, 2013.

Li, J., Elayan, F., Felton, S., Liu, Z. and Meyer, T.. Ethics Index, Ethical Performance, Financial Performance and the Quality of Financial Reporting - World Finance and Banking Symposium, Beijing, China, 2013.

Liu, Z.. Pricing Discretionary Accruals: Code vs. Common Law Firms - Pacific Basin Finance Economics and Accounting Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2013.

Liu, Z. and Thornton, D. Litigation risk, market-to-book, and accounting conservatism - American Accounting Association Annual conference, Washington, DC, District of Columbia, August, 2012.

Liu, Z. and Thornton, D. Litigation risk, market-to-book, and accounting conservatism - Administrative Sciencens Association of Canada (ASAC) annual conference, , St. John’s, Newfoundland, June, 2012.

Liu, Z.. Shareholder litigation and information role of conservatism - AAA Annual conference, San Francisco, California, August, 2010.

Liu, Z.. Shareholder litigation and information role of conservatism - CAAA Annual conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, May, 2010.

Liu, Zhefeng. Shareholder litigation and information role of conservatism - 2010 AAA Mid-Atlantic Region conference, Philadelphia PA, Pennsylvania, 2010.

Liu, Z. and Thornton, D.. Shareholder litigation, price-to-book and conservatism in financial reporting - Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) Annual Conference, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 2006.

Liu, Z. and Thornton, Dan. The impact of litigiousness on earnings conservatisms negative association with price to book ratio - CAAA Annual conference, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 2006.