At 14:00-16:00 on December 12, 2014, an academic lecture entitled "Face-to-Face Exchange with Masters" sponsored by Postgraduate Work Department and held by at SD303 of Business Administration College. Zhang Weining, an assistant professor from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, came over to our school to deliver an academic report entitled pCEO Tenure and Earnings Managementq, which was presided over by Prof. Xiao Xiang, party secretary of Business Administration College.

Mr. Zhang Weining shared his great joy for having his research paper honorably accepted by Journal of Accounting and Economics (one of the three major international Accounting Journals). In this research paper report, Mr. Zhang mainly analyzed how to demonstrate the earnings management behavior and the motivation behind during the different periods of the tenure of the CEO. After the research paper report, Mr. Zhang also gave a detailed account of all setbacks and hardships in the process of the paper contribution, what comments and proposals given by the reviewers, how the paper author can amend and respond to the comments and proposals given by the reviewers. Additionally, Mr. Zhang also shared with us his Ph.D pursuit experience in the USA and his own understanding of the US Ph.D education to encourage the Ph.D candidates of our school to go global to lay the solid foundation for the future academic research and conduct the significant academic research.

Mr. Zhang Weining is an assistant professor of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, graduated from University of Texas at Dallas, having worked at National University of Singapore and published several papers at the prestigious journals, such as, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, etc. This report is one of the annual reports of series of lectures entitled  "Road for Academic Growth" of "Road for Student Growth in three major sectors" highly recommended by Business Administration College, which consists of activities for "Road for Academic Growth", "Road for Career Growth" and "Road for Entrepreneurial Growth" initiated by Business Administration College. In view of "Road for Academic Growth", the well-experienced domestic and overseas high-end scholars are invited to guide the young teachers and postgraduates at our college to publish the high-level academic papers, apply for the high-level projects financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and National Social Science Fund, etc; in view of "Road for Career Growth", the professional managers who have gained the fast growth after their university graduation are invited to interpret and analyze the road for career growth for students of our college to facilitate them "to know themselves and the society, exhibit themselves, manage themselves for the self-growth"; In view of "Road for Entrepreneurial Growth", the successful entrepreneurs are invited to systematically interpret the way for successful business operation to stimulate the entrepreneurial awareness and entrepreneurial passion of the university students and enhance their conscientious and purpose-oriented studies.