8 December 2014

Staff Development Seminar Conducted by Professor Jeong Bon Kim

On 8 December 2014, the Department of Accountancy organiseda Staff Development Seminar (“Seminar”) and invited the Honorable ProfessorJeong Bon Kim (金正本教授), who is currently the Department Head and ChairProfessor of Accountancy at City University of Hong Kong, to present his mostrecent research study on the relation between a firm’s adoption of eXtensibleBusiness Reporting Language (“XBRL”) and the breadth of share ownership of thefirm that adopts XBRL.

In the Seminar, Professor Kim shared with theaudience the functions of XBRL and how a firm’s adoption of XBRL facilitates atransparent information environment, which helps reduce the time required bythe financial information users to get access to and process the financial dataof different companies. Throughout the presentation, Professor Kim and ourcolleagues had many interesting and fruitful discussions on different aspectsof accounting research, not only limited to XBRL adoption. All our colleaguesfound the Seminar informative and inspiring.

Introduction of staff members to Professor Kim

Professor Kim started the seminar with quotes from some famous historical Chinese scholars

Professor Kim discussed with our staff members on different aspects of accounting research

Gift presentation by the Department Head of Accountancy, Dr Brossa Wong