Sungsoo Kim

CAMDEN —Sungsoo Kim, a professor of accounting at the Rutgers
School of Business–Camden, has been appointed president of the American
Accounting Association’s Mid-Atlantic Region for the 2012-13 academic year.

Kim, a Cherry Hill resident,
will preside over the region’s annual business meeting, appoint special
committees, and act as chairman of the region’s steering committee.

The current annual meeting offers 100 research paper presentations,
doctoral consortiums, and panel discussions on current accounting and auditing
issues.

The American Accounting Association promotes worldwide
excellence in accounting education, research and practice. Its
Mid-Atlantic Region serves six states and active membership includes more than
800 accounting faculty and doctoral students.

“As a senior member of AAA it is my professional
obligation to lead the association,” Kim says. “Currently, the accounting
profession is going through seismic changes by trying to convert the current
accounting rules into an internationally uniformed accounting rule. The role of
accounting faculty during this transition is to provide timely and relevant
research findings to the policy makers, the business community, and investors.
I intend to focus on the development of research framework for the members in
upcoming year.”

Kim served as program chair for the Mid-Atlantic Region
during 2011-12.

“It is critically important to provide leadership to the
faculty members and doctoral students, and to provide impartial and
value-relevant research to the users of accounting information,” Kim says.

Kim received his bachelor’s degree in English from the
Chung-ang University in Korea. He earned an MBA, a master’s degree in
philosophy, and a doctoral degree in accounting from Bernard M. Baruch College,
City University of New York.

Kim’s research regularly appears in such prominent
scholarly journals as the Accounting Review, Journal of International
Financial Management and Accounting, and the Financial
Review.

In 2010, the Accounting Research Journal awarded Kim with its
Outstanding Paper Award for “The Effect of Enron, Andersen, and Sarbanes-Oxley
on the US Market for Audit Services.”

Kim teaches courses such as “Advanced Accounting,”
“Financial Statement Analysis,” “Problems in Financial Reporting,” and
“Accounting Theory and Public Policy” to undergraduate and MBA students at the
Camden Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.  

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