UMass Boston

Ting Chen

Department:
Accounting & Finance
Title:
Assistant Professor
Location:
McCormack Hall Floor 05
Phone:
617.287.7880
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Area of Expertise

Financial Accounting

Degrees

PhD, Business Administration (Accounting), Carnegie Mellon University

MS, Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University

BA, Accounting, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Professional Publications & Contributions
  • “The Value and Credit Relevance of Multiemployer Pension Plan Obligations” with Xiumin Martin, Christina Mashruwala, and Shamin Mashruwala, The Accounting Review, Volume 90, No 5 (2015): 1907-1938.
  • "Do Bank-Affiliated Analysts Benefit from Lending Relationships", with Xiumin Martin Journal of Accounting Research, Volume 49, Issue 3 (2011): 633–675.
  • “Analysts' treatment of nonrecurring items in street earnings”, with Zhaoyang Gu, Journal of Accounting and Economics 38 (2004): 129-170.

Additional Information

Background:

Ting Chen is an assistant professor of accounting in the Accounting and Finance Department of the College of Management. Prior to joining UMass Boston, she was an assistant professor of accounting at Baruch College, City University of New York. 

Courses Taught:

Introduction to financial accounting; Intermediate Accounting

Research Interests:

Financial analysts, corporate disclosure and regulations, and the role of financial information in corporate governance and contracting.

Honors:

Outstanding Research Manuscript, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, 2011

Irving Weinstein Scholar, Baruch College, 2010