Xuan Sean Sun is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Bryant University - BITZH program (partnered between Beijing Institute of Technology Zhuhai and Bryant University). Before joining Bryant Zhuhai, he finished his Ph.D. study at Massey University, New Zealand. In the meantime, he served as a tutor and research assistant. He received a BMgmt from Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College, China in 2015, and an MBS from Massey University, New Zealand in 2017. He was a recipient of CICPA Examinations First Award in 2015 and Massey University Doctoral Scholarship in 2018. His areas of research interest include financial reporting quality, corporate governance, international accounting and auditing, and corporate social responsibility. He has published in the International Journal of Auditing, Journal of Accounting Literature, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance, and International Review of Finance. He lives in Zhuhai, a city surrounded by sea and close to Macau and Hong Kong.