Background
A finance leader who has sat on both sides of the CFO transition
Cory Ng began at Deloitte as an auditor and advanced to senior auditor (2002–2004), followed by roles as a Senior Accountant in public accounting and a Financial Analyst with the Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church. In 2009 he moved into full-time academia, teaching accounting at the Community College of Philadelphia before joining the faculty at Temple University in 2015.
Over his time at Temple, Cory advanced from Assistant Professor of Instruction to Associate Professor of Instruction while taking on a series of academic leadership roles: Director of the Undergraduate Accounting Program, Deputy Chair of the Department of Accounting, Academic Director of the Master of Accountancy Program, and Director of the Accounting Institute. During this period he also published a book on AI in accounting and built an active research and service record.
In 2023, Cory made the move many of his students are working toward themselves: he became CFO and Vice President of Administration for a state CPA association, where he led the organization's finance, technology, and human resources functions at the executive level — the actual seat the CFO CPE Series prepares professionals to fill.
In 2024, Cory joined Surgent as Manager, Accounting & Auditing Content Developer, where he launched three flagship CPE series — AI in Accounting, Information Systems and Controls, and Cybersecurity for Financial Professionals — and was honored with Surgent's "Rookie of the Year" award. He returned to the classroom in 2025, first as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Wharton School and now as an Associate Teaching Professor at Villanova School of Business, while continuing to develop accounting and auditing content for Surgent.
Cory is co-author of Artificial Intelligence in Accounting: Practical Applications, and holds a Doctor of Business Administration from Wilmington University, a Master of Science in Accounting from Drexel University, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.