Jen J. Chang

Dr. Jen J. Chang is an assistant professor in the School of Business at Central Connecticut State University. She earned her Ph.D. in business administration (concentration: accounting) at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). She also holds an MSF from Michigan State University and an MSA (audit track) from the University of Houston. Before she started her journey into academia, she worked at global companies for about ten years.

Her teaching interests include Financial Accounting, Intermediate Accounting (US GAAP and IFRS), with an emphasis on technology skills such as Excel and Data Analytics. She received the Excellence in Teaching Award at Central (Honor Role) and SKKU. She enjoys her role as the advisor to the Accounting Society and likes to share her experience on how to pass the AICPA exam with her students in the classroom.

Her current research interests include earnings management, earnings quality, corporate governance, analysts’ earnings (cash flow) forecasts, managerial compensation and incentives, cash flow management, corporate disclosure, and auditing. She has presented several peer-reviewed papers at national and international conferences, including the American Accounting Association and the European Accounting Association. She was the recipient of the Vernon Zimmerman Best Paper Award at the 2018 Asian-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues and the recipient of the 2019 Ernest and Young (Han Young) Young Scholar Fellowship. She was nominated as the doctoral candidate representative from Korea to attend the 2019 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting Doctoral Consortium. She published in the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and other papers that can be found in google scholar.  

Education

PhD – Sungkyunkwan University,

MSA - University of Houston,

MSF - Michigan State University,

Memberships & Affiliations

American Accounting Association

European Accounting Association

Korean Accounting Association

Courses Taught

Introduction to Financial Accounting

Intermediate Accounting I

Intermediate Accounting II

Intermediate Accounting III

Accounting Analytics and Professional Competencies

Accounting Information for Decisions-Making (MBA)