Faculty/Staff

Jong Chool Park

Jong Chool Park

Associate Professor and Muma Fellow
parkj@usf.edu
Room: BSN 3508
Phone: (813) 974-2725
Fax: (813) 974-6528


Jong Chool Park is an associate professor and Muma Fellow in the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy. His primary research interest lies at the intersection of auditing, financial accounting and management accounting. His work has been published in leading accounting journals, including the Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, and the Journal of Management Accounting Research. He won an outstanding research paper award from American Accounting Association International Accounting Section Midyear Meeting in 2022.

His teaching focuses on financial accounting and financial statement analytics. He previously taught accounting at Carnegie Mellon University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Old Dominion University. He won the Advisory Council Outstanding Teaching Award in 2019 and 2023.  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 Accounting I

Research

  • Choi, A., J. B. Kim, J. J. Lee and J.C. Park (2023). Market for corporate control and demand for auditing: Evidence from international M&A laws. Review of Accounting Studies.

  • Murthy, U., J.C. Park, Smith, T. and J. Whitworth (2023). Audit efficiency and effectiveness consequences of accounting system homogeneity across audit clients: A new form of knowledge spillover? The Accounting Review.

  • Brisker, E., J.C. Park and H. Song. (2022). Managers鈥� 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