Yongqi Ke
PhD Candidate, Business Administration
Area of Study: Accounting
Anticipated Graduating Year: 2028
Educational Background
| Present | PhD Candidate, Business Administration Schulich School of Business – York University Toronto, Canada Advisor: Prof. Dr. Cameron Graham |
| 2022 | Master of Science in Accounting Organisations and Institutions London School of Economics London, UK |
| 2021 | Bachelor of Management in Accounting Fudan School of Management, Fudan University Shanghai, China |
Thesis Topic
Achieving our profession: Financial accounting and its crisis of coherence
Research Interests – Work in Progress
Research Interests:
Accounting history, Accounting theory, Accounting profession, Critical accounting
Work in Progress:
The Great Sage, Accountant’s Equal: The transformation and imitation of literary image in professional myth (dissertation chapter)
Financial accounting change and the asymmetry of signs: Synonyms, homonyms, and data assets (dissertation chapter)
Goodwill is good (dissertation chapter)
Philanthropy and the sacrifice of money（research article – with Cameron Graham）
What we talk about when we talk about scapegoats: Ritual and myth in audit failures (research article – with Cameron Graham)
Monetary policy, uneven development, and accounting for spatial justice (book chapter – with Dan Cohen, Cameron Graham) – accepted and will be published in 2026
Awards and Honours
| 2025 |
Ontario-Schulich Digital Accounting Information Grant, co-applicant (1,5000 CAD) |
| 2024 | Schulich PhD Conference Travel Fund (1,000 CAD) |
| 2023 | Schulich PhD Scholarship (43,000 CAD per year) |
| 2021 | Scholarship for Research Assistant at FDSM (15,000 CNY) |
| 2019 |
FDSM Funding for Exchange Studies (32,000 CNY) |
| 2018-21 |
Scholarship for Undergraduate Research Project (5,000 CNY) |
| 2017-18 | Scholarship for FDU Excellent Student (1,000 CNY) |
Refereed Conference Papers
Ke, Y. & Graham, C. (2024). Philanthropy. 14th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK, accepted for presentation.
