Faculty
Michele Ganon, Ph.D. CPA, CGMA 
Professor, Chair
Office: WS 303
Email: GanonM@wcsu.edu
Phone: (203) 837-8742
Current Teaching Areas: Managerial Accounting, Taxation
Research Interests: Tax fraud, White-Collar Crime, Ethics
Dr. Michele Ganon joined the Accounting Department in 1991 and is its longest serving member; her areas of expertise are taxation, managerial accounting, and white-collar crime and she currently teaches Advanced Taxation, Cost Accounting, and Strategic Cost Management.
She is a member of the Kathwari Honors Program Council and has recently taught honors courses on white-collar crime and managing not-for-profit organizations and also serves on the President’s Athletic Advisory Council. She is now serving her third biennial term as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Association of University Professors, the 40,000 member professional organization devoted to protecting and promoting academic freedom and shared governance throughout the U. S.
Dr. Ganon received a B.S. degree from Lehman College, where she later taught for several years, an MBA from Baruch College and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. She is registered to practice Public Accounting in New York State and holds the Chartered Global Management Accountant credential awarded by the AICPA.
Recent Publications:
Ganon, M. W., Donegan, J., & Rotondo, G. (2017). Embedding Values in Corporate Culture: Applying Schein’s Organizational Theory to Lehman Brothers. International Journal of Business and Applied Sciences.
Donegan, J., Ganon, M. W., & Johnson, Z. (2017). Influencers of Earnings Management Fraud: Coercion, Project Stage, and Ethics. Journal of Managerial Issues.
Dr. Jin Sun Ahn, Ph.D. CPA
Assistant Professor
Office: WS 304
E-Mail: ahnj@wcsu.edu
Phone: (203) 837-9342
Jin Sun Ahn, Ph.D., CPA., joined the faculty at Western Connecticut State University in the fall of 2020. Dr. Ahn earned her Ph.D degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, her master’s degree from George Washington University and BS degree from the University of Arizona.
Prior to joining academia, she worked at various global firms and international organizations, including KPMG, The World Bank, and Samsung Electronics as an auditor, consultant, and financial analyst.
At Western Connecticut State University, Dr. Ahn has taught financial accounting, intermediate accounting, and financial statement analysis. From 2018-2019, she taught managerial accounting at Boston University as a visiting assistant professor.
Her research interests include financial reporting, financial accounting, financial statement fraud and impact of CEO on financial reporting quality and firm performance.
Jim Donegan, Ph.D., CPA, CMA, CFE 
Professor
Office: WS 403
Email: DoneganJ@wcsu.edu
Phone: (203) 837-9035
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Current Teaching Areas: Consolidations and Partnerships (i course) and Fraud Examination
Research Interests: Financial Statement Fraud, White-Collar Crime
Jim Donegan has been a member of the Accounting Department since 1999. He currently also serves as Assistant Dean and has been MBA Coordinator and Interim Dean. His service to WCSU has included chairing the University Planning and Budgeting Committee and the Graduate Council. He has most recently taught Consolidations and Partnerships, Fraud Examination, and Governmental and Not-For-Profit Accounting. He received his BA from the CUNY BA Program, his MBA from Baruch College (CUNY), and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona (Go Wildcats!) and has held faculty positions at Baruch College and SUNY-New Paltz. His research interest has been primarily focused on white-collar crime as it impacts accounting. Jim recently concluded 25 years as a trustee of the Alumni Association of the Bronx High School of Science, including 17 as treasurer.
Recent Publications:
Donegan, J. J., Ganon, M. W., & Johnson, Z. (2017). Influencers of Earnings Management Fraud: Coercion, Project Stage, and Ethics. Journal of Managerial Issues, XXIX (2), 169-188.
Ganon, M. W., Donegan, J & Rotondo, G. (2017). Embedding Values in Corporate Culture: Applying Schein’s Organizational Theory to Lehman Brothers. International Journal of Business and Applied Sciences.
Xiaowen Jiang, Ph.D.
Professor
Office: WS 138
Email: JiangX@wcsu.edu
Phone: (203) 837-9291
Current Teaching Areas: Financial Accounting
Research Interests: Financial Reporting and Capital Markets; Audit Quality
Youngbin Kim, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor
Office: WS 142
Email: kimy@wcsu.edu
Phone: (203) 837-9344
Current Teaching Areas: Financial Accounting, Government Accounting
Research Interests: Financial Accounting, Social Networks
Dr. Youngbin Kim completed his Ph.D. study in Business Administration at University of Hawaii at Manoa with a major in accounting. He received his M.B.A. degree from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His completed his undergraduate degree with a double major in both Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Business Administration at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea. Dr. Kim joined Western Connecticut State University in 2016
Recent Publications:
The Crisis of Danbury Fair Mall published in Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness in 2021, co-authored with Jin Sun Ahn, Hanyong Chung, Jung Hoon Kim, and Natalie Jungyoun Shin
Legal environment changes and firm value: Evidence from the 1999 SGI Case published in Journal of Applied Business and Economics in 2021, co-authored with Jangho Gil and Jaeseong Lim
Social Networks of Firms and Corporate Social Responsibility published in Journal of Accounting and Finance in 2020, co-authored with Ying Guo and David Yang
What happened to the pension liability of Connecticut State? published in Journal of Business Cases and Application in 2020, co-authored with Jaeseong Lim
The effect of director busyness on corporate governance: an examination of the value of cash holdings published in Journal of Finance and Accountancy in 2020, co-authored with Ying Guo and David Yang
GASB statement No. 68 Implementation Magnifies Attention to Connecticut Pension Crisis published in Journal of Government Financial Management in 2020, co-authored with Xiaowen Jiang and Jaeseong Lim
Guy Rotondo, MBA, CPA 
Associate Professor
Office: WS 135
Email: RotondoG@wcsu.edu
Phone: (203) 837-9275
Current Teaching Areas: Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Auditing
Research Interests: Accounting Education, Financial Statement Fraud
Mr. Rotondo holds a BS in Accounting from Boston College and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is also a Connecticut CPA.
Mr. Rotondo has 30 years of professional experience in accounting, finance and financial risk management including 20 years as a managing director and 12 years as a General Securities Principal. He has worked for Arthur Andersen, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan Chase, HSH-Nordbank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and CS First Boston. Mr. Rotondo has also taught finance at Western Connecticut State University. He has co-authored articles published by the International Journal of Business & Applied Sciences and the Business Education Innovation Journal.
Gary Skiba, MBA, CPA 
Adjunct Professor
Office: WS 137
Email: SkibaG@wcsu.edu
Phone: (203) 837-8696
Current Teaching Areas: Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting
Research Interests: Financial Accounting, Tax Policy, Financial Reporting
