• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• University of California, Berkeley

Qintao Fan is an associate professor in the School of Accounting at the Lundquist College of Business. Her expertise includes incentive compensation, capital budgeting, and earnings management. Her research on these topics has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, and The Accounting Review.

Fan received her PhD and MS from Stanford University. Before joining the Lundquist College, Fan was an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley and an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• PhD, Business Administration (Accounting), Stanford University
• MS, Statistics, Stanford University
• MA, Economics, University of Maryland at College Park
• BA, Economics, Renmin University of China

Research Interests:

• Earnings management
• Incentive compensation and capital budgeting
• Information economics
• Initial public offerings

Teaching Areas:

• Corporate governance
• Cost accounting
• Doctoral research seminar in accounting
• Internal control systems
• Managerial accounting
• Strategic cost analyses

• Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2015
• Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, PhD Program, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
• COR Junior Faculty Research Grant, 2004
• American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2002
• Stanford University Graduate Fellowship, 1998–2002