Rate My Professor Sunyoung Kim

Associate Professor Sunyoung Kim serves in the Department of Accounting at Monash Business School, Monash University, where she joined in 2015. Her research centers on financial accounting through empirical capital market approaches, with key interests in executive compensation, target setting, share repurchase, hedging, and corporate social responsibility. Kim teaches courses including ACF2100 Financial Accounting and ACF5350 Applied Contemporary Accounting at the Caulfield campus. She also supervises PhD students on topics such as executive bonus convexity and target ratcheting, as well as three essays on contemporary financial accounting.

Kim's publications appear in premier journals. In The Accounting Review, she co-authored 'Economic Determinants and Consequences of Performance Target Difficulty' (2023, with Michal Matějka and Jongwon Park), 'CEO Overconfidence and Bonus Target Ratcheting' (2024, with Jongwon Park), and contributed to related works on performance targets. Other significant papers include 'CEO Personal Hedging and Corporate Social Responsibility' (Journal of Business Ethics, 2023, with Jongwon Park and Albert Tsang), 'Executive Bonus Target Ratcheting: Evidence from the New Executive Compensation Disclosure Rules' (Contemporary Accounting Research, 2017, with Jae Yong Shin), and 'Performance Target Difficulty and Fourth-quarter Performance' (2022). She holds the position of Associate Editor for the Journal of Management Accounting Research. Her Google Scholar profile records 183 citations, underscoring her contributions to incentive contracts and managerial decision-making in accounting.