Desmond Tsang

Desautels Faculty of Management

Accounting

 

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Courses

ACCT 351 Intermediate Financial Acct 1
ACCT 622 Intermed Financial Reporting 1

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PhD University of California at Berkeley, Accounting & Real Estate
MSc University of California at Berkeley, Business Administration
MA University of Toronto, Financial Economics
BCom University of Toronto

 

Professor Tsang began his career in the auditing department at Deloitte and Touche in Hong Kong and later worked as an economist at the Ontario Ministry of Finance in Canada. His research interests in accounting include: Earnings Management; Corporate Governance; Performance Measurement; Accounting Fraud. In addition, Professor Tsang conducts research in the area of real estate on Real Estate Investment Trusts, Corporate Finance and International Real Estate. Professor Tsang has published in journals such as Real Estate Economics and Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics and has presented his research findings at conferences in the US, Europe and Asia. Professor Tsang is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and has completed all levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams.

Professor Tsang teaches Intermediate Financial Accounting I at the undergraduate level and Intermediate Financial Reporting I at the MBA level. He was recently nominated for the principal's award for excellence in teaching in 2009.