Yoon Ju Kang
Associate Professor | Richard Dieter MS ’66 and Susan C. Dieter Endowed Faculty Fellow
Dr. Kang is an associate professor of accounting and the Richard Dieter MS ’66 and Susan C. Dieter Endowed Faculty Fellow in Accounting. Her research focuses on auditor judgment and decision-making and has been published in leading accounting journals, including Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, and Accounting Horizons. This work has received national recognition, including the 2019 Auditing Section Midyear Meeting Best Conference Paper Award and the 2021 KPMG Academic Research Panel Grant. In 2025, she was also selected as the KPMG Academic Faculty Fellow and currently serves as the Accounting Department Ph.D. Program Coordinator. Dr. Kang currently teaches Advanced Financial Accounting in the undergraduate program and Experimental & Causal Inference Methods seminar in the Ph.D. program. She has received the College Outstanding Teaching Award in recognition of her excellence in teaching.
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Teaching Interests
- Advanced Financial Accounting
- Behavioral and Experimental Research Methods
- Multivariate Methods
Selected Publications
Aghazadeh, S., Andiola, L., Dennis, S., Kang, Y., Kremin., J. Schaefer, T., Sedor, L., Westermann, K., and D. Williams. 2026. Back to Basics: Classroom Exercises to Teach Auditing Fundamentals. Issues in Accounting Education 41 (1): 61-72 (https://doi.org/10.2308/ISSUES-2024-024)
McCallen, J., Carrasco, H., Doxey, M., Houston, R., and Y. Kang. 2025. Disentangling Overall Audit Inspection Risk: The Effects of Inspection Focus and Inspection Likelihood. Accounting Horizons, Forthcoming. (https://doi.org/10.2308/HORIZONS-2024-062)
Whitfield, A., Kang, Y., and K. Trotman. 2024. Auditor Communications on CAMs: Timing, Inspection Likelihood, and the Audit Committee. Contemporary Accounting Research 41 (2): 976-999. (https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12934)
Aghazadeh, S., Dodgson, M. K., Kang, Y., and M. Peytcheva. 2023. Knowledge Creation and Transfer in the Context of National Office Consultations: Experiences of Audit Firm Partners. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory 42 (3): 1-23. (https://doi.org/10.2308/AJPT-2020-141)
Altiero, E., Kang, Y., and M.E. Peecher. 2022. Motivated Perspective Taking: Why Prompting Auditors to Take an Investor’s Perspective Makes Them Treat Identified Audit Differences as Less Material. Contemporary Accounting Research 39 (1): 339-370. (https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12721)
Aghazadeh, S., Dodgson, M. K., Kang, Y., and M. Peytcheva. 2020. Revealing Oz: Institutional Work Shaping Auditors’ National Office Consultations. Contemporary Accounting Research 38 (2): 974-1008. (https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12655)
Kang, Y., M. D. Piercey, and A. J. Trotman. 2020. Does an Auditor Judgment Rule Increase or Decrease Auditors’ Use of Innovative Procedures? Contemporary Accounting Research 37 (1): 297-321. (https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12509)