Franco Wong is a Professor of Accounting at the Merage School of Business. He earned his PhD in accounting from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his B.A. and M.A. in economics from the University of Lethbridge and Simon Fraser University, respectively. Before joining Merage, he was on the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Chicago, INSEAD, and the University of Toronto. At Toronto, he held several leadership roles, including Accounting Area Coordinator, Director of Faculty Recruiting, and CPA Ontario Professor of Financial Accounting. He served as the President of the Chinese Accounting Professors’ Association of North America in the 2013-14 academic year.

His research focuses on the production and dissemination of accounting information and the use of accounting information for valuation and contracting purposes. He has written articles on the textual analysis of corporate documents, the capital market implications of alternative data, the real effects of financial and managerial reporting quality, the voluntary disclosures of blockchain technology in initial coin offerings, the role of equity analysts in the pricing of financial statement note information, the impact of securities regulations on equity analysts and cross-listed companies, the incorporation of employee stock option (ESO) dilution into equity valuation, the effect of ESO accounting on share repurchases and corporate investment, the pricing of Internet stocks, and the disclosures about derivatives financial instruments. He has given over 100 presentations at numerous business schools and conferences worldwide. He co-organized eight academic conferences in Canada, China, and France.

Professor Wong has taught financial accounting, financial analysis and valuation, data analytics, and empirical accounting research to undergraduate, MBA, and PhD students. He has received awards for teaching excellence at the Haas School of Business and Rotman School of Management. He co-authors “Financial Accounting using IFRS,” a textbook published by Cambridge Business Publishers. He helped organize three conferences on emerging technologies for accounting and finance professionals. He holds the Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) Credential from the IFRS Foundation.