Degrees

PhD, Deakin University (Australia)
PGDip, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
BMed, Xiamen University (China)
M.B.A., Minnesota State University, Mankato
B.S., Minnesota State University, Mankato

Short Bio

Dr Lee J. Yao is tenured full Professor and holds the Rev. J.A. Butt Distinguished Professorship in Accounting. He also holds the prestigious Marquette Faculty Fellowship at Loyola University New Orleans. He is a CPA, an Australian and British Chartered Accountant, an Australian Certified Management Accountant, a Certified Fraud Examiner and a British Chartered IT Professional. He has extensive senior management experience with multinational organizations, including Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Arthur Andersen in accounting, finance and information systems in Australia, USA, UK and Singapore for more than 20 years before joining the academia. He was a Partner at Arthur Andersen & Co responsible for its litigation supports/ forensic area in the 90s testified as expert witness in many high profile cases. For the last eleven years since he joined the academe, he first worked as an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and then he was Associate Dean (Research) for the School of Business and Technology at La Trobe University in Australia. Before joining Loyola University New Orleans as chair of accounting, economics and finance, he was Associate Professor at Monash University in Australia. According to the US News University Rankings, Monash University and Nanyang Technological University are both ranked at the top 75 World’s Best Universities (along with Boston University and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), while Loyola University New Orleans is ranked in the top 10 on the US South Comprehensive Universities category.

As a world renowned forensic accounting information systems expert, Dr. Yao has published widely on issues in accounting, finance and information systems, resulting in three books on IT and accounting, more than 40 articles in leading accounting, finance and information systems referred journals, more than 90 papers presented at major referred international conferences and over 100 other non-refereed publications, all within eleven years since he started his academic career. His published articles appear (and forthcoming) in such leading journals as Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (JAAF), Journal of Business Research (JBR), Issues in Accounting Education (IAE), Accounting and Finance (AF), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (RQFA), Electronic Markets (EM), International Journal of Accounting Information Systems (IJAIS), International Review of Economics and Finance (IREF), Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research (AABR), Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting (AQAFA), Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting (JFIA), Journal of Forensic Accounting (JFA), International Journal of Accounting and Information Management (IJAIM), and Journal of Computer Information Systems (JCIS) among others. He regularly presented papers in major conferences including AAA Annual Meetings, DSI Annual Conferences and AFAANZ conferences etc. He was the recipient of an Innovative Teaching (Teaching Excellence) Award from La Trobe University in 2004. He was the recipient of the 2008 Best Reviewer Award from the Emerald Literati Network, UK. He has been elected to the Vice President (South-West Region) of the Accounting Program Leadership Group (APLG), AFRS and Fraud committee member in the Forensic and Investigative Section within the American Accounting Association. He has been appointed the Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious International Journal of Accounting and Information Management published by Emerald since 2007. He has advised fortune 500 companies on accounting, finance and information systems issues. He is also a very successful entrepreneur with successful business ventures listed in major stock exchange.

Courses Taught

• Accounting Information Systems
• Strategic Cost Management
• Managerial Accounting Information for Decision Making
• Management Control and Decision Making
• International Accounting
• Accounting Research

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