SEOW Poh Sun
Dr Seow Poh Sun is Professor of Accounting (Education) and Associate Dean (Teaching and Curriculum) of the School of Accountancy at Singapore Management University. His teaching and research interests are in accounting information systems, accounting data & analytics, behavioural issues in accounting and accounting education. He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant of Singapore and Fellow of CPA Australia.
Dr Seow has won several international and local teaching and research awards. He was the first Singaporean to receive Outstanding Accounting Educator Award in 2023 from the American Accounting Association. The award is presented to educators with sustained contributions that have significantly impacted accounting education or accounting educators, with sustained and substantive contributions from a wide variety of academic institutions. In 2022, he was the first awardee for the Accounting Education Excellence Award from the European Accounting Association. The award highlights excellent practices in Accounting Education which address thought leadership in the field through innovation and cutting-edge practices in pedagogy, technology, and content. He was also the first academic in Asia to receive the Howard Teall Award for Innovation in Accounting Education (First Prize) in 2020 from the Canadian Academic Accounting Association for his video-learning project to teach internal controls. He also received the American Accounting Association (AAA) Outstanding Instructional Contribution Award in 2018 for developing an online tutorial to teach database modelling. He also received the AAA Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education in 2017 and the AAA Innovation in Accounting Education Award in 2015, for his award-winning mobile learning app Accounting Challenge (ACE). He and his collaborators were the first academic in Asia to win the three awards from AAA. Dr Seow was the joint first faculty member to receive the inaugural SMU Teaching Excellence Hall of Fame Award in 2024 for receiving at least five SMU Undergraduate and/or Postgraduate Teaching Excellence Awards.
Education
PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia
MBA, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
BAcc (Hons), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
FCA Singapore
FCPA (Aust.)
Research Interests
Teaching Interests
Selected Recognition and Awards
SMU Teaching Excellence Hall of Fame Award (Joint first awardee), 2024
American Accounting Association, Outstanding Accounting Educator Award 2023
The European Accounting Association, Accounting Education Excellence Award (First awardee), 2022
The Canadian Academic Accounting Association, Howard Teall Award for Innovation in Accounting Education (First Prize), 2020
Singapore Ministry of Education Tertiary Education Research Fund, 2019, “Preparing Accountants of the Future: Evaluating a Programme in Accounting Data and Analytics” (Principal Investigator)
American Accounting Association Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Section, Outstanding Instructional Contribution Award, 2018
Pearson Innovation in Accounting Education Award, 2018
SMU Teaching Honour Roll, 2017 (SMU Excellent Teacher Award 2017 and 2014 and SMU Innovative Teacher Award 2015)
American Accounting Association Management Accounting Section, Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education, 2017
American Accounting Association, Innovation in Accounting Education Award, 2015
CEEMAN Champion Award for Innovative Pedagogy, 2013
Selected Appointments and Services
Associate Dean (Teaching and Curriculum), School of Accountancy, SMU, 2013-present
Member of SMU University Curriculum Committee, 2013-present
Member of SMU Core Curriculum Committee, 2018-present
Member of Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants, Sustainability and Climate Change Committee (Education Sub-Committee), 2021-present
Member of ACCA Education Global Forum (Singapore representative), 2018-present
Selected Publications
Preparing accountants of the future: Examining an undergraduate programme in accounting data and analytics, Asian Journal of Business and Accounting, 2024. Vol. 17(1): 247-290 (with Goh, C., Lew, M., and Pan, G.)
Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) in digital transformation: Investor Views, Accountancy Business and the Public Interest, 2022. Vol. 21:200-223 (with Goh, C., Kusnadi, Y., and Pan, G.)
Examining an experiential learning approach to prepare students for the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) work environment, The International Journal of Management Education, 2019. Vol. 17(1): 62-76 (with Koh, G. and Pan, G.)
Using a mobile-gaming app to enhance accounting education, Journal of Education for Business, 2016. Vol. 91(8): 434-439 (with Wong, S.-P.)
The effects of decision aid structural restrictiveness on decision-making outcomes”, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, 2011. Vol. 12 (1): 40-56
