Jennifer (He) Wen is an assistant professor of accounting at the College of Business Administration at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her research explores the consequences of financial reporting. She holds interests in the cost of capital; debt contract design; goodwill accounting; mergers and acquisitions; corporate disclosure policies; and analyst forecast activities. Dr. Wen has published in the Contemporary Accounting Research and presented her research at various academic conferences. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Utah (2013) and she teaches Financial Accounting and Reporting I.