Professor Jason Xiao

Jason Xiao is currently Professor of Accounting and Director of the Chinese Accounting, Finance and Business Research Unit at Cardiff Business School.  He was an accountant and divisional finance director in a Chinese company from 1982 to 1984 and taught accounting at the Beijing Business School from 1987 to 1990.  He came to the UK as a British Council Fellow in 1990.

One of his current research interests is in the role of ownership and corporate governance mechanisms in (1) the demand for and supply of auditing quality, (2) corporate performance, and (3) the adoption of IT and management accounting techniques in China. Jason’s research on the role of supervisory board in corporate governance in China won the Cardiff University Young Researcher Competition prize in 1998. Jason also won three best paper prizes awarded by the Chinese Accounting Association in 1998, 2000, and 2001. His research on accounting regulation closely relates to and influences China’s accounting reform as well as informing international academics, investors and regulators in the debate on and practice of global harmonisation of capital markets, accounting and financial systems. He has undertaken joint research projects with academics at Baptist University in Hong Kong, Beijing Technology and Business University, Lingnan University of Hong Kong, National Taiwan University, Peking University, Renmin University of China, San Diego State University, and the University of International Business and Economics, China. He has published papers on accounting, auditing, corporate governance and finance in such major international journals as Abacus, Accounting Horizons, Accounting, Organizations and Society, British Accounting Review, British Journal of Management, European Accounting Review, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and Pacific Basin Finance Journal as well as leading Chinese accounting and auditing journals.

Jason has been an editorial board member for Auditing Research which is a research journal of the China Auditing Association, International Journal of Digital Accounting Research and British Accounting Review. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors, the China Auditing Association, China and the Research Committee, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), UK.  Jason has been an independent reviewer of numerous papers on Chinese accounting, auditing, and corporate governance for over a dozen of international journals.

Jason has founded, and been the director of, the Chinese Accounting, Finance and Business Research Unit (CAFBRU) at Cardiff. The Unit organised several successful events including two symposiums in 2000 and 2002 sponsored by the ESRC and ACCA. Jointly with the Centre for International Accounting and Finance Research at Peking University, the Unit organises an annual International Symposium on Chinese Accounting and Finance Research since 2005. The Unit has attracted research grants from the ACCA, CIMA, ESRC, ICAS, Leverhulme Trust, International Business Wales, the Chinese government, and Chinese companies. Jason and other members of the Unit have hosted over 20 international visiting scholars and have trained over 10 PhD students and two postdoctoral fellows researching into Chinese accounting and business issues.