Faculty and Staff

Dongliang Lei

Professor • Department of Accounting & Law

Dr. Lei joined the Accounting and Law Department as an assistant professor at William Paterson University in 2018. Dr. Lei was certified as a public accountant in New York State in 2007 and he had worked as an auditor for over five years. His working experience equips Dr. Lei with skills and knowledge beneficial to his teaching and research. Dr. Lei has been teaching a full array of accounting and related courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including financial accounting, managerial accounting, tax accounting, and auditing.

Professional Interests

Accounting Research

Languages (other than English)

Chinese 

Degrees

PhD Accounting, Baruch College, City University of New York New York, NY

BS Bachelor of Science in Accounting, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York Brooklyn, NY

Specialization

Accounting

Licenses and Certifications

12/31/2007
CPA, State of New York State

Representative Publications


Auditor-Client Disagreements, Auditor Resignations, and Audit Fees Charged by Successor Auditors; , Journal of Applied Business Research; Volume 36, 2020
https://clutejournals.com/index.php/JABR/article/view/10321


Experimental Evidence for the Effects of Organizational Culture on Managers’ IT Capital Expenditure Decisions; Journal of Applied Business and Economics; Volume 23, 2021


Managerial ability and stock price crash risk–the role of managerial overconfidence; , Review of Accounting and Finance; Volume 20, 2021


The Role of Financial Reporting Quality in Selecting New Audit Committee Members; , Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance; Volume 33, 2021


The Effect of Financial Reporting Regimes on Audit Report Lags and Audit Fees: Evidence from Firms Cross-listed in US; , ; 2022
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JFRA-09-2021-0261/full/html?skipTracking=true

Representative Presentations


Auditor Resignations, And Audit Fees Charged By Successor Auditors
International Academic Conference on Business Clute Institute
New York, NY 2019


The role of Financial Reporting Quality in Selecting New Audit Committee Members
International Academic Conference on Business Clute Institute
New York, NY 2019

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