Rate My Professor Lily Chen

Associate Professor Lily Chen serves in the Research School of Accounting at the Australian National University College of Business and Economics. She joined ANU in July 2023, following her tenure at the University of Auckland Business School, where she earned her PhD in Accounting in 2013. Chen's research interests include financial accounting, sustainability accounting and reporting, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, financial reporting and disclosure, financial analysts, integrated reporting, and machine learning. Her scholarship has appeared in top-tier journals such as The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and Accounting and Finance. She has supervised five PhD students, eight Masters students, and eight Honours students to completion.

Key publications encompass 'In Financial Statements We Trust: Institutional Investors’ Stockholdings after Restatements' (2024, The Accounting Review), 'Anisotropic Span Embeddings and the Negative Impact of Higher-Order Inference for Coreference Resolution: An Empirical Analysis' (2024, Natural Language Engineering), 'The Economic Consequences Associated with Integrated Report Quality: Capital Market and Real Effects' (2017, Accounting, Organizations and Society), 'Social Norms and CSR Performance' (2017, Journal of Business Ethics), and 'Corporate Social Responsibility and Media Coverage' (2015, Journal of Banking & Finance). Chen has received the 2022 University of Auckland Business School Research Excellence Award, the 2021 Wiley Peter Brownell Manuscript Award for the best article in Accounting and Finance, the 2015 University of Auckland Business School Teaching Excellence Award, and multiple AFAANZ Best Paper Awards (2021, 2014, 2013). She is Editor of Pacific Accounting Review, serves on the editorial boards of Accounting and Finance and Meditari Accountancy Research, and is a board member of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand. Her research is cited by regulatory bodies, major accounting firms, and professional bodies.