Dr. Jung joined Rosen College in 2005 after teaching at a couple of other universities. Throughout his academic career, he has concentrated his energy on helping students develop comprehensive analytic capability. With this approach, he has designed a pedagogical framework that presents the big picture of business from a bird’s-eye view. He has applied this framework to a series of correlated subjects that he teaches that include Hospitality Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Hospitality Finance, and Feasibility Studies.
His ideas about applying accounting information to business activities were initially conceived while studying at Florida International University for his master’s degree. Later, he practiced his knowledge for almost ten years in the industry working as a systems designer, an operations analyst, and a controller for several nationwide volume foodservice companies. During his industry career, he conducted many meaningful experiments, which built bridges for effective communication between front of the house and back of the house operators.
Equipped with such industry experience, he returned to academia to further his studies. While studying at Virginia Tech for his Ph.D. degree, Jung was deeply influenced by the work of the late Dr. Michael Olsen, his mentor and academic advisor. He concentrated on developing a general valuation framework incorporating the concepts of business environmental analysis and the theory of life cycle. Since then, Dr. Jung has been working to accomplish his goal of laterally connecting the core of Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, and Finance into one complete set of applicable business models to help students of the Hospitality Management learn the subjects from practical perspectives for their career.