
Faculty Sharing

Lu Yifei
Assistant Professor (Teaching), School of Management and Economics (SME), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK, Shenzhen)

Research Field
Corporate Finance, Financial Report Quality and Analysis, Blockholders and Agency, Corporate Governance
Like most of her classmates, in the beginning, Professor Lu chose a major in economics and management simply because it was “a fit.” Fortunately, this choice accidentally led her to find her lifelong passion. From undergraduate studies in international trade to postgraduate studies in applied economics and MBA, and then to PhD studies in accounting, Professor Lu has studied in China, Singapore, and the United States, with wider professional expertise learned from different countries.
Professor Lu is always diligent and down-to-earth at work. She is willing to spare tireless efforts in preparing lessons and elaborating on every key point. She earnestly mobilizes students’ enthusiasm in class and answers questions for them after class.
She also has her own criteria for being a good accounting practitioner in the future. In the current era, with the rapid development of informatization, intelligence, and big data, accounting is often “underrated” as one of the first industries to be replaced by AI. However, with professional insights gained from in-depth research in accounting, Professor Lu points out that computers cannot truly simulate human thinking, thereby being unable to completely replace those that need human judgment. “In spite of accounting codes, human autonomy, or human judgment, is still of great significance.”