Yanduo Chen 陈彦多

Welcome

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the School of Accountancy, Singapore Management University (SMU). From January to May 2026, I visited Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. 

My research draws on accounting’s comparative advantage—gathering, processing, and communicating information—to understand how competing interest groups shape decision-making and resource allocation within the firms and polities.

My recent works build a corpus of 30 years of shareholder proposals and use LLMs to decompose them into narratives.

• This work shows that proposal narratives are not boilerplate, evolve across time and exhibit a widening translation gap in which stakeholder concerns are repackaged in value language as firms internalize externalities.

• This work shows that proponents' demand for disclosure nearly tripled across the three decades, and that both side's argument closely align with canonical accounting theories. In addition, I find that firms are more likely to request disclosure when they are less certain about the best practices.
  
  

I hold a B.Sc (2020) in Mathematics from Zhejiang University, China. I joined SMU in 2022 and received the Presidential Doctoral Fellowship in 2025.

Email: yanduo.chen.2022@phdacc.smu.edu.sg

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