Visiting Assistant Professor Henry (Haoyan) Wang teaches ACC 321, Intermediate Financial Accounting. He earned his PhD in Accounting from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in May 2025. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration and management from the University of Science and Technology of China.
Wang was a physics major before he switched to business. While taking an introductory accounting course, he discovered he enjoyed the classes—including making journal entries—and decided to pursue accounting for the rest of his life. “I’m very passionate about financial accounting and would love to share this passion with students,” he said. In the Spring semester, Wang is looking forward to teaching ACC 333, Managerial Accounting.
While he pivoted away from a science major, Wang retained his love for the scientific mindset: “I believe accounting is very much a scientific process, for example, the double-entry system—you change one thing, and it affects another; it’s a system of verification and discovery.”
Wang’s research interests include financial reporting, non-GAAP reporting, equity options, and the labor market. His recent publication examined the relationship between auditors’ responses to potential client corruption, measured in terms of Google search hits for a company’s name and the word “corruption.”
Wang lives in Oxford and enjoys walking around town with his dog, a Corgi named Suoha. “Oxford is a beautiful small town,” he said. “I also love the Farmer School of Business building, it gives you such a sense of activity and community; it’s not just a classroom building.”