Faculty/Staff

Jong Chool Park

Jong Chool Park

Assistant Professor
parkj@usf.edu
Room: BSN 3508
Phone: (813) 974-2725
Fax: (813) 974-6528
Vita

Jong Chool Park is an assistant professor in the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy. His teaching focuses on financial accounting and financial statement analysis. He won the Advisory Council Outstanding Teaching Award in 2019.

His primary research interest lies at the intersection of auditing, financial accounting and management accounting. His work has been accepted or published in leading accounting journals, including Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, and Journal of Management Accounting Research. He won an outstanding research paper award from American Accounting Association International Accounting Section Midyear Meeting in 2022.

He previously taught accounting at Carnegie Mellon University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, and Old Dominion University in Virginia. He is also a member of the American Accounting Association and a past president of the Korean American Accounting Professors Association.

He earned a PhD and a master's degree in accounting from Carnegie Mellon University, a master's degree in economics from the University of Buffalo in New York and a master's degree in statistics from the University of Chicago. He received a bachelor's degree from the Seoul National University in South Korea.

Teaching

  • ACG 2021 - Principles of Financial Accounting
  • ACG 3103 - Intermediate I

Research

  • Choi, A., J. B. Kim, J. J. Lee and J.C. Park (2022). Market for corporate control and demand for auditing: Evidence from international M&A laws. Review of Accounting Studies, forthcoming.

  • Murthy, U., J.C. Park, Smith, T. and J. Whitworth (2022). Audit efficiency and effectiveness consequences of accounting system homogeneity across audit clients: A new form of knowledge spillover? The Accounting Review, forthcoming.

  • Brisker, E., J.C. Park and H. Song. (2022). Managers’ equity incentives and asymmetric cost behavior. Journal of Management Accounting Research, 34 (2): 43-69.

  • Chang, K., Y. Kim, Y. Li and J.C. Park (2022) Labor unions and real earnings management. Journal of Corporate Finance, 75: 102242.

  • Kim, J., J.C. Park and T. Komarek (2021). The impact of Mobile ICT on national productivity in developed and developing countries. Information & Management 58(2): 103442.

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  • Chowdhury, R., J. Doukas, and J.C. Park. (2021). Stakeholder orientation and the value of cash holdings: Evidence from a natural experiment. Journal of Corporate Finance, 69(1): 102029.

  • Kim, J., J. Lee and J.C. Park. (2019). Internal control weakness and the asymmetrical behavior of selling, general, and administrative costs. Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, 37(1): 259-292.

  • Cai, Y., Y. Kim, J.C. Park and H. White. (2016). Common Auditors in M&A Transactions. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 61(1): 77-99.

  • Francis, B., Hasan, I., J.C. Park, and Q. Wu. (2015). Gender differences in corporate financial reporting: Evidence from accounting conservatism. Contemporary Accounting Research, 32(3): 1285 - 1318.

SERVICE

  • Member, American Accounting Association. 2001-present
  • Reviewer/referee, several highly regarded research journals