Sally (Eunyoung) Whang, Ph.D.

Eunyoung Whang
Associate Professor of Accounting, Business
Rydal Executive Plaza, 318
Penn State Abington
0119 Sutherland Building
Abington, PA 19001

Educational Background

Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ph.D. in Business Administration – Accounting; August 2010

Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois
Master of Business Administration (MBA) – Finance; August 2004

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois
Master of Accounting Science (MAS); May 2003

Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois
Bachelor of Business (BB) – Accounting; May 2002

Research interests

Managerial accounting, Financial accounting, Profitability ratio analysis

Teaching interests and courses taught

Managerial and Financial Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis

Principles of Financial Accounting (MBA Program)
Financial and Managerial Accounting (MBA Program)
Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting
Financial Statement Analysis

Selected Publications

Financial Ratio Analysis of Job Satisfaction and Strategic Positioning of Law Firms (with Seonghee Han, and Kikyung Song) – International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior (forthcoming 2020)

Pay Inequality and Job Satisfaction of Law Firms: The Role of Strategic Positioning (with Kikyung Song) – Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 16(2), 2020

The Revenue Persistence of US Accounting Firms: Impacts of SOX and Financial Crisis (with Kikyung Song) – Pacific Accounting Review 31 (3), August 2019

Accounting Ratio Analyses of Inequality of Minority Lawyers (with Kikyung Song) – Business and Professional Ethics Journal 37 (2-3), Summer/Fall 2018.

Culture, Capital Structure, and Implications for Accounting Regulation (with Andrew Anabila) – Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance 28(2), January/February 2017.

An Empirical Description of Billionaires (with Andrew A. Anabila) - Accounting and Finance Research 3(2), May 2014

Determinants of the Bias and Inaccuracy of Management Earnings Forecasts (with Andrew A. Anabila) –Accounting and Taxation 6(1), 2014