Poh-Sun Seow

Dr Seow Poh Sun is Associate 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 awardee for the Accounting Education Excellence Award in 2022 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 inducted on the SMU Teaching Honour Roll in 2017 for receiving at least three SMU Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Awards. He also received the SMU Teaching Excellence in Postgraduate Professional Programmes Award in 2020.

Education

• PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia
• MBA, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• BAcc (Hons), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• FCA Singapore
• FCPA (Aust.)

Research Interests

• Accounting Information Systems
• Behavioural Research in Accounting
• Accounting Education

Teaching Interests

• Accounting Information Systems
• Financial Accounting

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