Candidate fellow Edith Leung awarded VENI grant
TI candidate fellow Edith Leung has been awarded a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). Edith Leung is Assistant Professor in Financial Accounting at Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Veni grants target outstanding academics who obtained their PhD in the past three years and display a striking talent for scientific research.
Recipients of a Veni grant are primarily selected based on quality, innovative character and expected academic impact of the proposed research. Edith is one out of twelve young scientists from Erasmus University Rotterdam who have been awarded this Veni grant of maximum 250,000 euros for a 3 years research project.
Research proposal
Edith Leung’s research focuses on the adjusted “non-GAAP” performance measures which managers often report, and that do not conform to existing accounting regulation. Regulators and media criticize these measures as being misleading to investors, although there is no concrete evidence to support this view. According to NWO the proposal of Edith Leung (Disclosures of alternative performance metrics: misleading or informative?) contributes to the debate by examining the usefulness of non-GAAP disclosures.
About
Edith Leung joined the Erasmus School of Economics as an Assistant Professor in Financial Accounting in 2013. She earned her PhD at Tilburg University (2013) and was a visiting PhD student at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business from 2012-2013. She has published in The Accounting Review and her research interests are reporting standards, inter-firm relationships and disclosure. She is the ESE coordinator of the ERIM Accounting Research Seminars.