Dr Wee Ching Pok

Dr Wee Ching Pok is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting (Teaching Specialist) at Flinders University, where she has been a faculty member since May 2013. From June 2014 to June 2018, she also served as the Higher Degrees Research Coordinator for Flinders Business.

She currently teaches a range of accounting subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including Financial Accounting (Basic and Intermediate) and Accounting Information Systems. Additionally, she contributes to the MBA program, focusing on topics related to financing start-ups.

Prior to joining Flinders, Dr Pok held an academic position at a public university in Malaysia. During her tenure there, she supervised Master's, PhD, and Doctor of Business Administration students in accounting and corporate finance, both in Malaysia and Australia. She has supervised Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students on topics including: the relationship between related party transactions and firm performance, determinants of government bond yield spreads in Asian economies, the link between earnings management and corporate social responsibility, the impact of mergers and acquisitions on various stakeholders and sources of competitiveness in SMEs.

During her time in Malaysia, she also served as a Research Fellow for two years at an accounting research institute recognised as a Centre of Excellence for Higher Institutions. In this role, she conducted research on the compliance costs and benefits of anti-money laundering regulations for both conventional banks and Islamic financial institutions. She was also responsible for managing research teams aligned with specialised clusters.

Dr Pok's research interests span both accounting and finance disciplines. Her areas of focus include corporate social responsibility, earnings management and sustainability, financial derivatives (particularly in risk management, volatility, and forecasting), corporate finance (debt structure, ownership, dividend policies, green financing, and governance), and mergers and acquisitions. More recently, she has also explored research on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with emphasis on innovation, risk sharing, barriers to growth, and the role of intangible assets in competitiveness and credit rationing.