Alyssa Ong
Biography
Dr. Alyssa Ong received her PhD in Accounting from West Virginia University. She is also a Certified Fraud Examiner. Dr. Ong was the top prize winner for the Ritchie-Jennings Memorial Scholarship awarded by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners in 2017. Merging her interests in forensic accounting, fraud examination, and psychology, her research areas focus on interventions that auditors, as well as managers of companies, can implement to deter employees from engaging in those fraudulent behaviors and whistleblowing.
Dr. Ong has been at Pepperdine University’s Seaver College since 2018 and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 2024. She won the prestigious Howard A. White Teaching Award in 2023 and has taught many accounting courses at Pepperdine University. She also serves on a variety of committees at the division and college level.
Dr. Ong has been actively involved in the Forensic Accounting section of the American Accounting Association (AAA). She is the President-Elect and has served as the Education Committee Chair and the Secretary for the section. In addition, she has assisted with the planning of the midyear meetings and the annual meeting sessions for the section. Dr. Ong is the Forensic Accounting section’s representative on the AAA’s Meetings Model Committee. She also serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research and is a guest editor of the journal’s whistleblowing special topics forum.
Education
- PhD in Accounting, West Virginia University, 2018
- BSB in Accounting and Finance, University of Kansas, 2014
Topics
- Fraud detection
- Fraud deterrence
- Auditor judgment and decision making
- Whistleblowing
Courses
- AC 224 Financial Accounting
- AC 310 Intermediate Accounting I
- AC 311 Intermediate Accounting II
- AC 313 Cost Analysis
- AC 314 Advanced Cost Analysis and Systems
- AC 425 Auditing
- AC 501 Ethics for Accounting