Ping-Sheng KOH

Professor
department: Accounting and Management Control 
Campus de Singapour
Career
Biography

Ping-Sheng Koh is a Fellow of CPA (Australia) and a founding member of the UNCTAD-ISAR Accounting Research Network. He joined the Accounting and Management Control Department in 2016 from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research interests concentrate in the areas of corporate disclosures (esp. R&D disclosure), corporate innovation, corporate governance, CSR, and the use of information in corporate strategy. He publishes in top academic journals across multiple disciplines including the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative AnalysisManagement Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Organization Science. He has won two best manuscript awards, and two best conference papers and has among the highest research impact during his time with the Department of Accounting at HKUST, and the Department of Accounting and Management Control at ESSEC.

In the area of archival financial accounting research, his research impact is ranked 83rd globally per BYU Accounting Faculty Ranking by Citations and 9th globally on the citations per paper basis. More broadly across all research fields and methods in accounting and management control, his impact is ranked 174th (total impact) and 13th (citations per paper) globally. He is a reviewer for top academic journals such as The Accounting Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Banking and Finance, Management Science, Review of Accounting Studies, and Strategic Management Journal, among others.

Ping-Sheng's teaching centers on financial accounting and financial analysis. He has received numerous teaching excellence recognitions at HKUST, including the finalist for the Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching (the highest teaching excellence award for individual faculty at HKUST) and the winner of the Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence in the MBA Required Course (the highest HKUST Business School teaching excellence award for individual faculty in the respective category). At ESSEC, his teaching evaluations for GMBA and EMBA programs consistently averaging over 4.9/5.0 across all years. He is also active in corporate executives training in Singapore and overseas through open and customized executive programs, especially in the domain of financial analysis for value creation.

 

Google Scholar citations: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pg53ZNoAAAAJ&hl=en

Scopus citations: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=14070233900

Career
Full-time academic appointments
    • 2017 – Now : Professor (ESSEC Business School Singapore)
    • 2016 – 2017 : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School Singapore)
    • 2006 – 2016 : Associate Professor (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) China)
Distinctions

Grants

  • 2019 : CY Initiative of Excellence

Awards

  • 2018 : Northern Finance Association Conference Best Paper Award
  • 2018 : ESSEC Foundation White Project Award (Fondation ESSEC)
  • 2017 : Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conference Best Paper Award
  • 2016 : Honor Roll for Excellence in MBA Teaching (with High Honor) (HKUST Business School, China)
  • 2015 : Honor Roll for Excellence in MBA Teaching (with High Honor) (HKUST Business School, China)
  • 2014 : Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence in the MBA Required Course (HKUST Business School, China)
  • 2014 : Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching, Finalist (The highest University level teaching execellence award for individual faculty) (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China)
  • 2014 : Honor Roll for Excellence in MBA Teaching (with High Honor) (HKUST Business School, China)
  • 2013 : Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence for MSc teaching, runner-up (The highest School level teaching excellence award for individual faculty) (HKUST Business School, China)
  • 2013 : Honor Roll for Excellence in MBA Teaching (with High Honor) (HKUST Business School, China)
  • 2012 : Honor Roll for Excellence in MBA Teaching (with High Honor) (HKUST Business School, China)
  • 2011 : The Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence for MSc teaching, runner-up (HKUST Business School, China)
  • 2011 : Honor Roll for Excellence in MBA Teaching (with High Honor) (HKUST Business School, China)
  • 2010 : Honor Roll for Excellence in MBA Teaching (with High Honor) (HKUST Business School, China)
  • 2007 : Accounting and Finance Peter Brownell Manuscript Runner-Up Award
  • 2006 : HKUST Business School Dean’s Recognition of Excellent Teaching (every year between 2006 and 2016 in 6 different courses across the MBA, MSc and Undergraduate programs) (HKUST Business School, China)
  • 2003 : Accounting Research Journal Competitive Manuscript Award – Main article
Research

Journal articles

Presentations at an Academic or Professional conference

Teaching
Other activities