Rate My Professor Lynn Ling

Dr. Lynn Ling, also known as Yew Hua Ling, serves as Lecturer and Discipline Lead (Accounting) in the Department of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Business at Curtin University Malaysia's Miri campus. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy and is recognized for her research on Malaysian firms' performance, corporate governance, stock market reactions to capital expenditure announcements, family-controlled firms, CEO narcissism, and the influence of social media on enterprise innovation and accounting information disclosure. As a Supervisor Level 2, she actively supervises research and contributes to the academic community through her scholarly output.

Dr. Ling's key publications include 'Stock market reaction towards capital expenditure announcements: Malaysia case for servicing and manufacturing industry' (2011, Global Review of Accounting and Finance, co-authored with JM Shaikh); 'Do Family-Controlled Malaysian Firms Create Wealth for Investors in the Context of Corporate Acquisitions?' (2014, Capital Markets Review, with J Evans, J Shaikh, MS Sadique); 'Is there wealth impact from capital expenditure announcements?: Malaysia listing firms of industrial products sector' (2011, International Review of Business Research Papers, with JM Shaikh); 'Market value impact of capital investment announcements: Malaysia case' (2010, International Conference on Information and Finance); 'How does social media improve enterprise innovation performance? The mediating role of CEO narcissism' (2024, The Journal of High Technology Management Research, with JZ Li et al.); 'Student emotions and online class engagement in the time of pandemic' (2023, International Journal of Innovation and Learning, with F Chieng et al.); 'Family director board governance index: An analysis of family directors and firm performance in Malaysia' (2025, Journal of General Management, with L Ling et al.); and 'Accounting students’ perceived importance of faculty attributes: a cross-country cross-campus comparison between Malaysia and Australia' (2025, Accounting Education, with LYH Ling et al.). Additionally, she holds the role of Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Australia East Malaysia Ambassador and serves as Organising Chair for the 27th Malaysian Finance Association International Conference (MFAIC 2025) themed 'Sustainable Finance and Business'. Her influence extends to public engagement through participation in national roundtables on MSME digitalisation, financial literacy seminars, teacher training on outcome-based education and innovative technologies, and entrepreneurship workshops for indigenous communities.