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Double-entry bookkeeping work remembered in newest Ijiri memorial

A memorial article on the life and scholarship of Yuji Ijiri (1935–2017) has been completed by Professor Pierre Liang, a faculty member and lab director of the Accounting AI Research Lab, together with co-authors Martin E. Persson (Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Shyam Sunder (Yale School of Management, Yale University). Titled "Yuji Ijiri (1935–2017): Measurement, Accountability, and Accounting as a Social Institution."

Lab Working Paper Accepted at the Stanford (SITE) Conference 2026

Prof. Pierre Liang will present the lab's research at the 2026 Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) to be held September 2–4, 2026, at Stanford University. The paper, Entropic Uncertainty: Measuring Firm and Aggregate Uncertainty from the Graph Structure of Financial Statements, is co-authored with Professor Bo Sun of UVA and lab's doctoral student Ziyi Yang of the Tepper School.

Phoenix Peers Presented at CMU's S2S Graduate Showcase

Lab co-manager and Tepper doctoral student Orhun Gun presented the Phoenix Peers at Carnegie Mellon's Scholar to Scholar: Graduate Project Showcase on March 20, 2026.

Keynote Speech at Quantinno Capital Management LP

Prof. Pierre Liang was invited to deliver the inaugural keynote lecture in the Lectures Series at Quantinno Capital Management LP.

ACE Paper to Be Presented at Southern Methodist University (SMU) Research Workshop

Prof. Gaoqing will present the “Accounting Classification Entropy (ACE)” paper at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Research Workshop on March 27, 2026.

Invited Seminar Presentation at UC-Berkeley Haas Business School

Prof. Pierre Liang is invited to give a seminar presentation on March 6th, 2026.

Archived News

Monday, June 29, 2026

Lab Working Paper Accepted at the Stanford (SITE) Conference 2026

Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Keynote Speech at Quantinno Capital Management LP

Prof. Pierre Liang was invited to deliver the inaugural keynote lecture in the Lectures Series at Quantinno Capital Management LP.

Monday, November 10, 2025

Invited Seminar Presentation at UC-Berkeley Haas Business School

Prof. Pierre Liang is invited to give a seminar presentation on March 6th, 2026.

Monday, November 10, 2025

Invited Seminar Presentation at UC-Berkeley Haas Business School

Prof. Pierre Liang is invited to give a seminar presentation on March 6th, 2026.

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Accounting Graph Entropy (AGE) Paper Presented at 2026 AAA-FARS

Lab manager and Tepper doctoral student Jane Pyo presented a paper titled "Accounting Graph Entropy (AGE)" at the 2026 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) Midyear Meeting.

Sunday, February 15, 2026

New Lab Members Joining Spring 2026

Thursday, November 27, 2025

Keynote Speech at Taiwan Accounting Association Annual Conference

Prof. Pierre Liang is invited to deliver a keynote speech at the Taiwan Accounting Association Annual Conference in November 2025.

Monday, November 24, 2025

ACE Paper Presented at NUS and SMU Research Workshops

Prof. Gaoqing presented the lab’s recent working paper, “Accounting Classification Entropy (ACE),” at research workshops hosted by the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore Management University (SMU) during the week of November 24, 2025.

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Accounting Classification Entropy (ACE) presented at Penn State

At an invited research colloquium hosted by the Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University on Tuesday, October 29, 2025, Prof. Nan Li presented a paper titled “Accounting Classification Entropy (ACE)”.

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Accounting Classification Entropy (ACE) presented at UC San Diego

At an invited research seminar hosted by the Rady School of Management at University of California San Diego on Tuesday, October 22, 2025, Prof. Nan Li presented a paper titled “Accounting Classification Entropy (ACE)”.

Friday, August 15, 2025

Accounting Graph Entropy (AGE) Paper Presented at 2025 Accounting Mini-Conference (AMC) at CMU

At the 21st edition of the Carnegie Mellon Accounting Mini-Conference taking place on Friday August 15 and Saturday August 16, 2025, Prof. Pierre Liang presented a paper titled "Accounting Graph Entropy (AGE)".

Friday, April 25, 2025

ACE Paper Presented at Egyptian Online Seminars in Business, Accounting and Economics

On April 25, 2025, Prof. Gaoqing delivered an online presentation of the “Accounting Classification Entropy (ACE)” paper at the Egyptian Online Seminars in Business, Accounting and Economics.

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Entropy Project Overview Presented at Tepper's 75th Anniversary Academic Symposium

This milestone event will bring together current and former faculty, distinguished Ph.D. alumni, industry leaders, and students to reflect on our legacy and envision the future of business research and practice.

Saturday, August 17, 2024

Accounting Classification Entropy (ACE) presented at 2024 Accounting Mini-Conference (AMC) at CMU

At the 20th edition of the Carnegie Mellon Accounting Mini-Conference held on Friday, August 16 and Saturday, August 17, 2024, Prof. Nan Li presented a paper titled “Accounting Classification Entropy (ACE)”. The paper was discussed by Prof. Jeremy Bertomeu of Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis.

Friday, October 04, 2024

Accounting Classification Entropy (ACE) presented at UT Dallas

At an invited research workshop hosted by the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas on Tuesday, October 4, 2024, Prof. Nan Li presented a paper titled “Accounting Classification Entropy (ACE)”.