Ikseon Suh

Ikseon Suh
Ikseon Suh Marquette University

 334 David Straz Hall

 Milwaukee WI United States of America (414) 288-1465
Curriculum Vitae

Assistant Professor of Accounting

Dr. Suh, a Fulbright scholar and a recipient of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP award, joined Marquette University in August, 2009, after earning her Ph.D from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC). She earned her Master in Accountancy at SIUC and worked at a regional accounting firm in Illinois. In Mexico, Dr. Suh was an Associate Professor at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México where she taught a number of finance courses e.g., corporate finance, investment, portfolio management and valuation. Prior to ITAM, Dr. Suh worked as a Financial Analyst at Nacional Financiera (Affiliated financial institution of the Mexican Central Bank) and at the Mexican International Commerce department.

Her current research pertains to the impact of corporate governance factors or the influence of environmental factors on auditor judgment and decision-making; the psychological pathways of fraudsters in financial reporting; and the use bootstrap techniques and Benford’s Law in the context of fraud detection.

Education

  • Ph.D., Business Administration – Accounting (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009).
  • Master in Accountancy (Southern Illinois University Carbondale).
  • Master in Finance (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México-ITAM)
  • B.A. in Economics (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México-ITAM)

Professional Interests

Behavioral accounting/auditing, judgment and decision making, corporate governance and fraud detection model.

Selected Publications

Norman, C., Rose, J., Suh*, I. 2011. “The effects of disclosure type and audit committee expertise on chief audit executives’ tolerance for financial misstatements.” Accounting, Organization and Society, 36(2): 102-108. [* In alphabetical order, but Suh is the second author].

Suh, I. and Minaburo, S. 2011. Mexico. In Global Accounting History and Development: The Americas - Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought, edited by G. J. Previts, P. Walton, and P. Wolnizer. In press by Emerald Group Publishing Limited (ISBN: 9780857248114).

Suh, I., Headrick, T. C. and Minaburo, S. “An effective and efficient analytic technique: A bootstrap regression procedure and Benford's Law.” Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting. In press.

Suh, I. and Headrick, T.C. 2010. “A comparative analysis of the bootstrap versus traditional statistical procedures applied to digital analysis based on Benford’s law.” Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting, 2(2): 144-175.

Awards, Honors, & Certifications

  • Certified Public Accountant, State of Illinois
  • Grant from PwC INQuires ($10,000 for 2011)
  • Grant from Center for Audit Quality ($10,000 for 2011)
  • Doctoral Fellowship (2007)
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers Award (2005)
  • Fulbright Scholar (Since 2003)