Associate Dean (Research) of the SMU School of Accountancy and Professor of Accounting Cheng Qiang studies the phenomenon of companies engaging in unethical behaviour. His research focuses on governance issues as well as how to fine-tune corporate governance mechanisms, such as Chief Executive Officers’ (CEOs) employment and severance pay agreements, to combat unethical and financially damaging behaviour. Prof Cheng hopes to collaborate with his colleagues from the School of Law and Lee Kong  Chian School of Business to further explore the role of regulators, and how to engage them so that unethical behaviour in financial reporting is minimised. He is also looking at teaming up with colleagues from the School of Information Systems to find better ways of collecting information on corporate disclosure from the Internet.