Assistant Professor
Department of Accountancy
Weatherhead School of Management
Yufan Dong, PhD, CPA, joined the Weatherhead School of Management as an assistant professor of accountancy in 2023. Her research examines auditor behaviors in the context of client business choices, litigation risk, internal controls, and operational regulatory oversight. She also holds an active CPA license from the state of California, where she spent three years as an auditor at Deloitte & Touché. Her clients ranged from startups to Fortune 200 companies representing biotechnology, retail & distribution, and software industries. Yufan received her PhD in Business Administration from Temple University and Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Initially Appointed: 2023
Education
Bachelor of Arts
Economics
University of California, Berkeley
2015
PhD
Business Administration (Concentration: Accounting)
Temple University, Fox School of Business
2023
Teaching Information
Teaching Interests
- Financial Accounting
- Managerial Accounting
Research Information
Research Interests
- Auditing
- Risk Factor Disclosure
- Litigation
- Business Decisions
- Internal Controls
- Social Capital
- Reporting for Open Source Software
- Regulatory Oversight
Awards and Honors
- Deloitte & Touché, LLP Outstanding Performance Award2017
- Deloitte & Touché, LLP Outstanding Performance Award2018
- Fox School of Business PhD Student Research Competition, 3rd Place2020
- Fox School of Business PhD Student Research Competition, 1st Place2021
- AAA Mid-Atlantic Region Best Paper Award2022