Dr Wee Ching Pok

Senior Lecturer

College of Business, Government and Law

place Law & Commerce
GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Dr Wee Ching Pok is now a Senior Lecturer in Accounting (Teaching Specialist). She has joined Flinders since May 2013. She was previously also the Higher Degrees Research Coordinator for Flinders Business. Prior to joining Flinders University, she served in a public university in Malaysia. During her time there, she supervised the master, PhD and Doctor of Business Administration students mainly in the area of accounting and corporate finance. She has previously supervised 5 Research Higher Degree students exploring the relationship between related party transactions and firm performance, determinants of government bond yield spread of Asian Economies, the sources of competitiveness of SMEs, the relationship between earnings management and corporate social responsibility and impact of mergers and acquisitions on stakeholders.

While she was at Malaysia, she was also a Research Fellow for 2 years at an accounting research institute, higher institutions' centre of excellence doing research related to compliance costs and benefits of anti-money laundering requirements of banks and Islamic Finance.

Her research interests include financial derivatives (risk management, volatility and prediction), stock and bond markets (volatility and determinants of bond yield spread), corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions.

Qualifications
BAcc (Hons) UM; MBA (Finance) UKM; PhD (Accounting and Finance), Univ. of Birmingham, UK.
Teaching interests

Accounting and Finance topics, Information Systems, etc.

Topic coordinator
BUSN9113 Exploring Accounting Principles
BUSN9118 Resolving Accounting Issues
BUSN9114 Transforming Accounting Processes
BUSN1002 Exploring Accounting Processes
BUSN9132 New Venture Finance and Private Equity
BUSN2052 Revolutionising Accounting Processes