
Alyssa Sui Jing Ong
Biography
Dr. Alyssa Ong received her PhD from West Virginia University. Her dissertation was titled "Perpetrators vs. Auditors: Factors that Influence the Occurrence of Fraud and Audit Interventions". She is also a Certified Fraud Examiner. In 2017, Dr. Ong won the top prize for the Ritchie-Jennings Memorial Scholarship awarded by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. From 2014-2018, she was part of a small team of contributors coding litigation release cases for the Institute of Fraud Prevention's SEC Litigation Release Database. Merging her interests in forensic accounting, fraud examination, and psychology, her research areas focus on traits that influence individuals to commit fraud and interventions that auditors, as well as managers of companies, can implement to deter employees from engaging in those fraudulent behaviors.
Dr. Ong has been actively involved in the Forensic Accounting (FA) section of the American Accounting Association. She is the current Education Committee Chair for the section and is the Co-Paper Chair for the section's 2023 midyear meeting. She also serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research.
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
Courses
- AC 224 Financial Accounting
- AC 310 Intermediate Accounting I
- AC 311 Intermediate Accounting II
- AC 314 Advanced Cost Analysis and Systems
- AC 425 Auditing