Research-based teaching is key to our success
The Department of Accountancy and Finance gladly shares its knowledge and experience with our students – and the wider community.
Find out about our background, research and teaching, or look up our contact details, below:
Head of Department
Professor Jin Zhang
Derivatives and quantitative finance
Support staff
Our support staff provide reception, administrative and secretarial support to the Department.
Margaret Grundy – Administrator
Tel +64 3 479 8112
Email margaret.grundy@otago.ac.nz
Mirjana Moffat – Administrator
Tel +64 3 556 5425
Email mirjana.moffat@otago.ac.nz
Academic staff
Our academic and teaching staff are highly regarded internationally for their world-class research.
Find them listed below alphabetically by discipline and surname.
Accounting
Dr Frederico Botafogo
Accounting theory
Dr Mariela Carvajal-Gallardo
Financial reporting, accounting disclosure and corporate governance
Dr Bikram Chatterjee
IFRS, public sector reporting, private sector reporting, performance measurement and accounting education
Dr Zihan Liu
Corporate non-financial reporting, corporate governance, and auditing and assurance
Dr Hoa Luong
Financial technologies, blockchain, artificial intelligence, data analytics, corporate reporting, corporate governance, performance measurement and management
Dr Yimei Man
Corporate governance, includes agency conflicts, earnings management, firm performance, auditing characteristics
Associate Professor Dinithi Ranasinghe
Corporate governance, financial reporting, behavioural accounting, value relevance, benchmarks and disclosure, accounting choices
Iki Mafi Uele
Public value accounting, publicness of financial reports, accountability and transparency, rule-based and principle-based-accountability
Finance
Dr Pakorn (Beam) Aschakulporn
Derivatives and quantitative finance
Dr Muhammad A. Cheema
Asset pricing, behavioural finance, energy economics
Dr Sebastian Gehricke
Sustainable finance and reporting, greenwashing, carbon and energy markets
Dr Duminda Kuruppuarachchi
Market efficiency of financial markets, information spillovers in financial markets, and financial modelling
Dr Olena Onishchenko
Empirical Capital Markets, Asset Pricing, Short Selling
Dr Svetlana Orlova
Financial markets and institutions
Professor Helen Roberts
The relationship between CEO compensation, firm performance and corporate governance
Dr Anindya Sen
Investment analysis, portfolio management, financial derivatives, quantitative strategy
Dr Tom Stannard
Corporate finance, corporate governance, real options analysis
Dr Jungah (Isabella) Yoon
Derivatives market
Professors Emeriti
Professor Timothy Falcon Crack
Professor Inguruwatt Premachandra