Kyonghee Kim

Kyonghee Kim is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Broad College of Business, Michigan State University (MSU). She is also co-director of the Accounting Ph.D. program. She received her Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Pittsburgh in 2005.  Prior to joining the Accounting & Information Systems Department in June 2017, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri at Columbia and an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her teaching interests include Cost and Managerial Accounting and Financial Accounting, with the former being her teaching area at MSU. 

“An Empirical Examination of the Divergence between Managers’ and Analysts’ Earnings Forecasts” with S. Das and S. Patro, Contemporary Accounting Research (2017), vol. 34(4), 2123-2151.“Option Incentives, Leverage and Risk-Taking” with S. Patro and R. Pereira, Journal of Corporate Finance (2017) vol.43, 1-18.“White Collar Incentives” with B. Baik, J.H. Evans, and Y. Yanadori, Accounting, Organizations and Society (2016), vol.53, 34-49.“Analysts’ Pre-tax Income Forecasts and the Tax Expense Anomaly” with B. Baik, R. Morton, and Y. Roh, Review of Accounting Studies (2016), vol.21(2), 559-595.“Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Management Earnings Forecasts” with S. Pandit and C. Wasley, Accounting Horizons (2016), vol. 30(1), 157-172. “Outside Directors and Board Advising and Monitoring Performance” with E. Mauldin and S. Patro, Journal of Accounting and Economics (2014), vol.57, 110-131.“Earnings Smoothing, Cash Flow Volatility, and CEO Cash Bonus” with S. Das and K. Hong, The Financial Review (2013), vol. 48, 123-150.“On the Anomalous Stock Price Response to Management Earnings Forecasts” with S. Das and S. Patro, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting (2012), vol. 39 (7-8), 905-935.“An Analysis of Managerial Use and Market Consequences of Earnings Management and Expectation Management” with S. Das and S. Patro, The Accounting Review (2011), vol.86 (6), 1935-1967.“Blockholder Monitoring and the Efficiency of Pay-Performance Benchmarking” K. Kim, Journal of Corporate Finance (2010), vol.16 (5), 748-766.“Nonfinancial Performance Measures and Physician Compensation” with J.H. Evans, N. Nagarajan, and S. Patro, Journal of Management Accounting Research (2010), vol.22, 31-56.“Uncertainty, Legal Liability, and Incentive Contracts” with J.H. Evans and N. Nagarajan, The Accounting Review (2006), vol.81 (5), 1045-1071.