Rate My Professor Fang Hu

Fang Hu is an Associate Professor in Accounting at the Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith Business School, Griffith University. She holds a PhD degree. Her research interests encompass capital markets, corporate sustainability, financial reporting and disclosure in China and in a global context, financial accounting, corporate governance, and emerging markets. As a member of the Griffith Asia Institute, she has contributed to discussions on China's stock markets, including transparency, regulation, and synchronicity. Fang Hu supervises doctoral students on topics such as fair value disclosure. She convenes courses including Corporate Accounting (7103AFE).

Fang Hu has published several key papers in reputable journals. Notable publications include 'Do Women and Ethnic Minority Directors Influence Firm Value? Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa' (2016, with Ernest Gyapong and Reza Monem, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting), 'Asset Revaluations and Earnings Management' (2015, with Majella Percy and Daifei Yao), 'Can CEO equity-based compensation limit investment-related agency problems?' (2022, with Xin Qu, Majella Percy, and Jenny Stewart, Accounting & Finance), 'Fair Value Accounting and Earnings Persistence: Evidence from New Zealand' (2018), 'The economic consequences of financial fraud' (2018, with Qu Xin et al.), and 'How the Design of CEO Equity-Based Compensation can Lead to Lower Audit Fees: Evidence from Australia' (2020). She co-authored a guest editorial titled 'The ever-changing market in China' (2023). Additionally, Fang Hu is involved in funded research, including the 2025-2026 AFAANZ Research Grant for 'Boilerplate or Battle? Decomposing Fair Value-Related Disclosures' as a team member with Daifei Yao and Bin Li. Her work appears in Griffith University's research repository and has been featured in Asia Insights blogs.