Rate My Professor Jin Zhang

Jin Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting at Monash University, part of the Faculty of Business and Economics. She joined the university in January 2018 following her graduation from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Her research specializations include earnings management, political corruption, innovation, labor law, climate risk disclosure, gender discrimination, machine learning, mergers and acquisitions, and financial reporting quality. Zhang's scholarship also addresses governance, risk, and ethics in accounting, with contributions to university-industry collaborations. She is affiliated with Impact Labs in Monash Business School and participates in the International Consortium for Values-based Governance.

Zhang's publications appear in top-tier journals, including 'Do brokers manage the distribution of stock recommendations?' (2025, Contemporary Accounting Research, with W. He), 'Pay transparency and inventor productivity: evidence from state-level pay secrecy laws' (2025, accepted in RAND Journal of Economics, with H. Gao and P.-H. Hsu), 'Language similarity and M&A transactions' (2024, European Accounting Review, with X. Pan), 'Naming as business strategy: an analysis of eponymy and debt contracting' (2024, Review of Accounting Studies, with C. Chen, M. Song, and C. Truong), and 'Political corruption and accounting choices' (2023, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, with H. Zhang). She has earned the Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher (2020), Dean’s Honours List (24 July 2018), Early Career Researcher Accounting Education Award (2025), and First Prize Award for Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Science (October 2018). As an ad-hoc reviewer for leading outlets such as Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, and many others, Zhang influences the field. She serves as Chief Investigator for 'Accounting for Digital Assets and Firm Valuation' (November 2024–November 2025) and Primary Chief Investigator for 'Corporate Culture and Climate Change Disclosure and Informativeness' (November 2024–November 2025). Zhang is currently accepting PhD students.