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Dr. Wikil Kwak

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Dr. Wikil Kwak

  • Alumi Professorhsip of Accounting -- two times
  • School of Accounting, Professor

email:
wkwak@unomaha.edu
office:
MH  370K
office phone:
402.554.2821
department phone:
402.554.3650
office hours:
M 5:00 -5:50 pm or Via Zoom
fax:
402.554.2680
personal website:
https://wkwak@unomaha.edu

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Biography

Wikil Kwak is a Professor and received his Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Dr. Kwak's research interests include the areas of Director compensation in the Oil and Gas industry, Bankruptcy prediction studies, Japanese capital market studies and mathematical programming approaches in data mining, capital budgeting, transfer pricing, auditor change prediction studies, bankruptcy studies across countries,, and performance evaluation. He has been published 60 articles and book chapters in the Contemporary Accounting Research, Abacus, the Engineering Economist, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Management Accountant, Journal of Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management, Multinational Business Review, Business Intelligence and Data Mining.

Teaching Interests

Teaching in undergraduate or graduate (MBA) managerial accounting.

Research Interests

Research interests include the areas of Japanese capital market studies and mathematical programming approaches in data mining in capital budgeting, transfer pricing, performance evaluation, auditor change prediction and bankruptcy studies, and director compensation studies in various industries.

Service Summary

Currently I am serving as treasurer of the International Academy of Information Technology and Quantitative Management and we held our inaugural Conference in Omaha, NE, USA, on June 3, 2012, and we successfully completed our first academic conference of the ITQM in 2013, in Suzhou, China, during May 16-18. We organized our ITQM2014, in Moscow, Russia, from June 3-5. We had our 3rd conference in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, July 22-26, 2015. We had our fourth conference in Seoul, Korea, August 12-16. We had our fifth ITQM2017 in New Delhi, India from December 8-10, 2017. We have our sixth conference ITQM2018 in Omaha, NE from October 20-21, 2018. I was awarded with Distinguished service Award by the Organizing committee. We organized our seventh conference ITQM2019 in Granada, Spain from November 4-5, 2019. We organized 2020-2021 conference in Chengdu, China, in July 9-11, 2021. We also organized 2022 ITQM conference via online because of Covid19 from December 9-11, 2022. I am one of acting members of Board of Directors of Omaha Value Investment Education and Research Center. I am a member of the Cornhusker Chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants and an IMA Mentor for UNO. I have helped the organization's recruiting of student members and arranged mentors for interested students. I am also a member of the American Accounting Association (Management Accounting Section, International Accounting, Auditing, and Information System Section) and a member of Decision Science. I reviewed some papers for our professional journals and conferences. I reviewed papers for the previous American Accounting Association National Meeting Conference and reviewed several papers for the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. I am an ad hoc reviewer for Engineering Economist, International Journal of Business and Intelligence and Decision Making (Nescience Journal), Information Technology and Decision Making, and European Journal of Operation Research. DepartmentWe are working together to design exams and computer assignments for ACCT2020. I am looking for new books for all levels of Managerial Accounting. We are working together to prepare the AACSB Accounting program accreditation.I met with professionals as many times possible, attended Accounting Speaker Series, and attended students' meetings.CollegeGraduate Programming Committee, Committee Member, January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2021. We check MBA and EMBA program curriculum, Several Concentrations within MBA, and deal with AACSB assessment measures. UniversityThe FUSE review committee to represent CBA.ProfessionalInternational Academy of Information Technology and Quantitative Management, Officer, Vice President, January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021.Currently I am serving as treasurer of the International Academy of Information Technology and Quantitative Management and we held our inaugural Conference in Omaha, NE, USA, on June 3, 2012, and we successfully completed our first academic conference of the ITQM in 2013, in Suzhou, China, during May 16-18. We organized our ITQM2014, in Moscow, Russia, from June 3-5. We had our 3rd conference in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, July 22-26, 2015. We had our forth conference in Seoul, Korea, August 12-16. We had our fifth ITQM2017 in New Delhi, India from December 8-10, 2017. We have our sixth conference ITQM2018 in Omaha, NE from October 20-21, 2018. We organized the seventh conference ITQM2019 in Granada, Spain from November 4-5, 2019. We organized ITQM2020-2021 at Chengdu, China. I am one of acting members of Board of Directors of OVIERC. I am a member of the Cornhusker Chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants and an IMA Mentor for UNO. I have helped the organization's recruiting of student members and arranged mentors for interested students. I am also a member of the American Accounting Association (Management Accounting Section, International Accounting, Auditing, and Information System Section) and a member of Decision Science. I reviewed some papers for our professional journals and conferences. I reviewed papers for the previous American Accounting Association National Meeting Conference and reviewed several papers for the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. I am an ad hoc reviewer for Engineering Economist, International Journal of Business and Intelligence and Decision Making (Nescience Journal), Information Technology and Decision Making, and European Journal of Operation Research.

Awards and Honors

Distinguished Alumni Professorship of Accounting, Scholarship/Research - 2008

Distinguished Alumni Professorship of Accounting, Scholarship/Research - 2008

Faculty Research Award, Scholarship/Research - 2019

Education

BA, Kyung-Buk National University, Daegu, South Korea, English, 1980

MS, Iowa State Univeristy , Ames, Iowa, Business Administration, Accounting, 1986

Ph D, University of NE at Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, Business/Accounting, Management Science, 1990

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