Retirement Send Off for Dr. Jane Ou
Dr. Jane Ou, after teaching at SCU for 39 years, retired at the end of the year. Dr. Ou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting. She received her M.B.A. degree from UCLA and Ph.D in Accounting from the University of California, Berkeley. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Dr. Ou received her B.A. in International Business from National Taiwan University.
Dr. Ou’s research interests are mainly in financial statement analysis and the roles of accounting information in equity valuation. Her research has been published in leading accounting journals such as Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting. She established her reputation in a series of papers that demonstrated the usefulness of financial statement ratios in predicting future performance. The Ou and Penman studies received the AICPA/American Accounting Association Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Award in 1991.
Dr. Ou’s teaching interests are in financial and managerial accounting. She has received many teaching awards at Santa Clara University since she began teaching at Santa Clara University in 1985. Most recently Dr. Ou received the Accounting Professor of the Year 2021 award.
We wish Dr. Ou a well deserved and happy retirement!