Liang Tan

Liang Tan is an Associate Professor and Curling Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech Innovation Campus, affiliated with the Pamplin College of Business's Department of Accounting and Information Systems. His research focuses on financial accounting, tax, auditing, and corporate governance, with notable work on debt covenant violations, institutional ownership impacts, and audit quality. Previously, he held an assistant professor position at George Washington University and worked as a senior auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers in China.

Education: Ph.D. in Accounting Information and Management from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Research Interests:

• Financial Reporting and Transparency
• Audit Firm Practices and Quality
• Corporate Tax Strategies
• Institutional Investor Influence
• Environmental Disclosure Mechanisms
• Managerial Fiduciary Duties

Publications Trends: Recent work spans interdisciplinary topics such as environmental policy impacts, embodied interaction design, and audit quality metrics. His accounting research has appeared in top-tier journals like Journal of Accounting and Economics and The Accounting Review.

Advising & Grants: No specific grants or advisee list provided in current data.

Labs/Teams: No specialized research groups explicitly mentioned in profile.