Accounting Information Systems: An Essential Guide for Beginners (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781542655873)

Y.K. Wong holds a Ph.D. in Computing Science from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. She received her Master's degree in Advanced Information Systems and Management from The University of New South Wales, Australia, and a Bachelor of Commerce from Curtin University of Technology, Australia. Dr. Wong has produced quality publications (books, journals, and referred conference papers). Her first book, titled 'Modern Software Review: Techniques and Technology', was published in 2006. She is the Associate Editor for the International Review of Business Research and the International Journal of PIE (an A-list journal), consulting editor for Australian Journal on Information Systems, and reviewer (scholarly peer-reviewed) for many top-tier journals such as IEEE, AIS, and various A-list journals. She served in the Technical Committee for International Association of Science and Technology for Development between 2006 and 2009, the Academic Advocate for ISACA between 2013 and 2015, and the program and track chairs for several conferences such as the Global Business and Social Science Research Conference in 2014 and Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems in 2008. She has been actively engaged with professional bodies including the Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on IT/IS in Asia Pacific (AIS-SIG IT/IS), The International of Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER), Project Management Institute (PMI), Academy of Management (AOM), The Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), IEEE Communications Society (IEEE Communication), ACM Special Interest Group: Mobile (SIG Mobile), and Certified Public Accounting (CPA). Dr. Wong is a consultant, researcher, and teacher in various universities and international companies. She taught at the University of New South Wales, Griffith University, the University of Technology, Sydney, and the University of Southern Queensland in the areas of business and information technology between 2001 and 2014. She has been teaching Accounting Information Systems and Auditing since 2010. Prior to her academic appointments, she worked in the areas of enterprise resources planning systems implementation systems and business processes re-engineering, e-commerce solutions, logistics, operations, and procurement; sales and marketing and product development since 1991.