Joanna Ho specializes in decision making related to management accounting and auditing, and is interested in helping accountants and auditors improve their decision-making skills. Her work has been published in such publications as Abacus, Accounting Horizon, Behavior Research in Accounting, Contemporary Accounting Research, Decision Sciences, Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, Journal of Accounting Literature, Journal of International Accounting Research, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty and others.

Professor Ho was the recipient of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Award and the KPMG Peat Marwick Research Opportunities in Auditing Grant. She has also received numerous faculty and teaching excellence awards.

She has served as the president of the Chinese Accounting Professor’s Association of North America (CAPANA), secretary of Chinese American Faculty Association-Southern California (CAFA), and Vice President for Sections and Regions at the American Accounting Association (AAA).

Professor Ho was associate dean at The Paul Merage School of Business for four years.
She is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant.

Awards

2007  Vernon Zimmerman Best Paper Award at The Asian Pacific International Accounting Conference
2001-2003 Hong Kong Research Grants Council Award (Co-investigators)
2000-2001 Graduate School of Management Faculty Service Excellence Award
1998-1999 UCI Committee on Research, Multi-Investigator Research Program Award
1997-1998 UCI Excellence for Teaching Award
1996-1997 Graduate School of Management Excellence in Teaching Award
1995-1996 Graduate School of Management Excellence in Teaching Award
1990-1991 Faculty Career Development Award
1990-1991 Irvine Faculty Research Fellowship
1988-1989 Peat Marwick Research Opportunity in Auditing Fellowship
1988-1989 Faculty Career Development Award
1987-1988 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Behavioral Accounting Award (first runner-up)
1987-1988 GSM Faculty Fellowship

Publications

• Ho, J.L., A. Wu, and L.C. Lee, "How Changes in Compensation Affect Employee Performance, Recruitment and Retention—An Empirical Study of A Car Dealership," forthcoming in Contemporary Accounting Review.
• S. Vera-Muñoz, Ho, J.L., and C. Chow, "The Openness of Tacit Knowledge Sharing in Audits: An Exploratory Study and Proposed Framework," Accounting Horizons, Vol. 20, No. 2, June 2006, pp. 133-155.
• Ho, Joanna L., P. Keltyka, and L. R. Keller, "How Information Ambiguity and Contextual Information Affect Managers’ Goal Congruence in Making Investment Decisions?" Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2005, pp. 163-186.