Rate My Professor Kim Tan

Dr. Kim Tan serves as Professor of Accounting and Chair of the Department of Accounting and Finance in the College of Business Administration at California State University, Stanislaus. She holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from Temple University in Philadelphia, a Master of Economics in Accounting from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration in Accounting and Information Science from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. As a Chartered Accountant of Australia and New Zealand and a senior member of the Australian Computer Society, Dr. Tan brings extensive professional expertise to her academic role. She has been a faculty member at Stan State since August 1998, teaching core courses including Managerial Accounting, Cost Accounting, and Management Accounting.

Dr. Tan's research focuses on cost and management accounting, pedagogical issues, research methods, auditing, and fraud detection. Her scholarly contributions appear in leading journals such as the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, the International Journal of Management Education, Accounting Forum, and Issues in Accounting Education. Notable publications include "Data Analytics, Netlike Knowledge Structure, and Academic Performance" (2023); "Abrupt Academic Dishonesty: Pressure, Opportunity, and Deference" (International Journal of Management Education, 2023); "Cash Theft Investigation and Evidence Documentation" (Journal of Forensic Accounting Research, 2022); and her highly cited work "An 'American Dream' Theory of Corporate Executive Fraud" (Accounting Forum, 2007, with F. Choo). Other significant papers address predicting corporate bankruptcies using chaos models (e.g., "Predicting Retail Company Bankruptcies in the Era of COVID," Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness, 2024), the impact of tax reforms on CPA exam pass rates, and the relationship between students' writing ability and academic performance. Dr. Tan has collaborated frequently with researchers such as D.H. Lindsay, A. Campbell, F. Choo, and G.A. Soydemir. In addition to her research and teaching, she contributes to university governance through roles on committees like the Faculty Budget and Academic Calendar Committee and the 2017-2025 University Strategic Planning Council, as well as her induction into Phi Kappa Phi in 2009.