Rate My Professor Yimei Man

Dr Yimei Man is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting in the Department of Accountancy and Finance at the University of Otago's Otago Business School. She holds a BSc from Shandong University, an MSc from the University of Stirling, a PhD from the University of Waikato, and is a Chartered Accountant with Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. She joined the department in 2020 and teaches courses such as Advanced Financial Accounting (ACCT315), which develops students' conceptual and technical proficiency in advanced accounting standards and practices.

Her research interests include corporate governance, agency conflicts, earnings management, auditing, board characteristics, firm performance, asset pricing, behavioral accounting, and sustainability. Key publications include: Man, Y. (2025), 'Psychological drivers of sustainability: Examining happiness and progress toward the SDGs', Cleaner Production Letters, 9, 100103; Benjamin, S. J., Man, Y., & Biswas, P. K. (2025), 'The impact of negative online word-of-mouth on corporate financial strategy: A focus on the level of cash holding', Applied Economics (advance online); Bhuiyan, M. B. U., & Man, Y. (2025), 'Environmental violation and cost of equity capital: Evidence from Europe', Business Strategy & the Environment (advance online); Bhuiyan, M. B. U., Man, Y., & Lont, D. H. (2024), 'Audit report lag and the cost of equity capital', Journal of Capital Market Studies, 8(2), 212-241; Benjamin, S. J., Biswas, P. K., Wellalage, N. H., & Man, Y. (2023), 'Environmental disclosure and its relation to waste performance', Meditari Accountancy Research, 31(6), 1545-1577. Other publications encompass earnings management and agency costs in China (2021), risk committee and corporate risk-taking (2021), investor sentiment and stock returns (2020), overnight returns and future stock returns (2022), and sense of belonging among accounting students during the global pandemic (2022). She supervises PhD and MCom students in accountancy and finance.