Liping Xu Holds a PhD in Finance from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is currently professor of accounting at Sun Yat-sen Business School. She delivers Financial Accounting and Accounting Theory courses to undergraduate, graduate, MBA, and MPAcc students. Her research interests focus on capital market accounting and finance research. Her papers have appeared in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Economic Research Journal (Chinese), Management World (Chinese), etc. She has served as an ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Economic Research Journal (Chinese), Nankai Business Review (Chinese), etc. Her research papers have got various awards from Ministry of Education, Guangdong Province, and academic conferences.