Dr Jessica Yi

Jessica Yi (she/her) is a Lecturer in accounting at the UniSA Business and a course coordinator of Financial Accounting 2 and Contemporary Issues in Accounting. Jessica has a PhD in credit risk assessment in financial instruments from University of Adelaide and a Master by reaserch from University of Adelaide. She has subtantial expertise in accounting and more than 10 years of teaching accounting in multiple Australian universities. 

Jessica' academic career focusses on the development of high quality and engaging courses for the second and third year accounting students studying on-capmus, online and internationally. Her teaching philosophy centres on the premise that as facilitators of students' learning, academics should provide learning opportunities and guidance to students. 

Jessica's research covers the field of credit risk assessment and accounting education. Especially, her principal research interests lie in the prediction of financial distress, such as loan default and corporate bankruptcy and innovation in accounting education and career readiness. In PhD thesis, an innovative and interdisciplinary technique is employed to identify relevant predictors and thus to better explain the characteristics of loan defaulting firms. Her passion for the innovation in accounting education is well reflected in her multiple research and involvement in the innovative accounting education research projects. Her focus on the students' career readiness is well reflected in her continous work with the industry partners and successful outcomes. 

With over a decade of teaching experience at both University of Adelaide and University of South Australia, Jessica is very passionate about teaching and focused on enhancing students' engangement and learning ability. Her passion was aknowledged by students' high satisfaction rate.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy The University of Adelaide

• Master of Business (Accounting) University of South Australia