Accounting

College of Business

Kenneth Zheng

Department Chair, Associate Professor, and Daniels Fund Faculty Fellow

Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas

M.S.,  University of Texas at Dallas

B.A., Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China

 

kzheng@uwyo.edu • BU 247 East

 

CV 2025

 

Teaching:

Managerial Accounting

 

Publications:

Li, W., Wu, C., Wu, S.-L., and Zheng, K. 2025. “Rollover Risk and Tax Avoidance.” Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, forthcoming.

Wang, W., and Zheng, K. 2025. “Aggregate Sales Decline and Cost Stickiness: A Multinational Study.” Asian Review of Accounting, forthcoming.

He, T., and Zheng, K. 2024. “Rational Expectations Tests on Financial Analysts’ Cash Flow Forecasts.” International Journal of Managerial Finance, 21 (2), pp. 606-638.

He, T., Imhof, M., and Zheng, K. 2024. “Information Acquisition Costs and Analysts’ Cash Flow Forecasts: The Role of Management Cash Flow Forecasts.” Accounting and Finance Research, 13(4), pp. 1-11.

Chambers, V., Johnson, E. N., Fleischman, G., and Zheng, K. 2024. “The Influence of Organizational Culture and Manager Communion on the Discretionary Labor Cost Reduction Decision.” Advances in Management Accounting, 36, pp. 57-83.

Chou, S., Natarajan, R., and Zheng, K. 2022. “Conglomerate Internal Informational Advantage and Resource Allocation Efficiency.” Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 59, pp. 717-748.

Golden, J., and Zheng, K. 2022. “Cost Management and Corporate Payout Decisions.” Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 58 (3), 911-938.

Li, W. L., Natarajan, R., Zhao, Y., and Zheng, K.  2021. “The Effect of Management Control Mechanisms through Risk-Taking Incentives on Asymmetric Cost Behavior.” Review of Quantative Finance and Accounting, 56 (1), 219-243.

Xu, X., and Zheng, K.  2020. “Tax Avoidance and Asymmetric Cost Behavior.” Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, 35 (4), 723-747.

Li, W. L., and Zheng, K. 2020. “Rollover Risk and Managerial Cost Adjustment Decisions.” Accounting and Finance, 60 (3), 2843-2878.

Wang, W., and Zheng, K. 2020. “Real Earnings Manipulation and Future Performance: A Revisit Using Quarterly Data of Firms with Debt Covenants.” Review of Financial Economics, 38 (1), 76-96.

Natarajan, R., and Zheng, K. 2019. “Clawback Provision of SOX, Financial Misstatements, and CEO Compensation Contracts.” Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, 34 (1), 74-98.

Wang, W., and Zheng, K. 2018. “Labor Unemployment Insurance and Firms’ Future Performance.” International Journal of Managerial Finance, 14 (3), 282-300.

Li, W. L., and Zheng, K. 2017. “Product Market Competition and Cost Stickiness.” Review of Quantative Finance and Accounting, 49 (2), 283-313.

Li, W. L., and Zheng, K. 2015. "Information Transfers from Management Earnings Forecasts: Irrational Underreaction and Subsequent Correction." Accounting and Finance Research, 4 (4), 69-83.

Lim, D., and Zheng, K. 2014. "Conditional Conservatism of Aggregate Accounting Earnings." Accounting and Finance Research, 3 (4), 115-131.