On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Professor Tang Xuesong, Vice Dean of the School of Accounting of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, was invited by the Department of Accounting of the School of Management and Economics to give a lecture on "Top Executives Responsible for Corporate Rumors?" in Main Building room 241. Teachers and the entire graduate students of the accounting department participated in the lecture.

　　Professor Tang took a number of rumors on Baidu as example, pointed out that the rapid development of Internet media increased the scope and impact of the hearsay making the stock market rumors become more serious. Professor Tang 's study found that rumors significantly reduced the rate of salary increase and retention of executives, and the impact on high - growth enterprises was more obvious.