Department of Accounting

Siyi Li

       601 S. Morgan St. (M/C 006)
       Chicago, IL 60607
       Phone: 312-996-0727
       Fax : 312-996-4520

 

Education

Ph.D., Business Administration (Accounting), Columbia University, New York, 2003
M.Phil., Business Administration, Columbia University, New York, 2002
M.B.A., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, 1997
B.A., International Economics, Nankai University, China, 1994

Teaching and Research Interests

Teaching: Financial Accounting.
Research: Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, Security Valuation, Analyst Forecast.

Honors / Awards

List of Teachers Rated as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009 - 2010.
Columbia Business School Doctoral Fellowship, 1998 - 2003.
American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2001.

Positions Held

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2010 - present.
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003 - 2010.
Teaching and Research Assistant, Columbia University, 1999 - 2002.

Representative publications

"The usefulness of accounting estimates for predicting cash flows and earnings" (with Baruch Lev and Theodore Sougiannis), Review of Accounting Studies, December 2010.