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 David Lont
Capital markets, economics of financial reporting and auditing
Support staff
Our support staff provide reception, administrative and secretarial support to the Department.
deptmgr.af@otago.ac.nz
Department Manager
Margaret Grundy
Teaching Coordinator
Greg Dean
Administrative Assistant
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
Professor Ralph Adler
Performance management, strategic management accounting, organisational effectiveness, active student learning
Nicola Beatson
Performance management
Dr Samuel Benjamin
Financial reporting, management accounting, dividend policy, corporate governance, capital markets
Dr Pallab Biswas
Corporate governance in emerging countries, corporate social responsibility reporting, capital market disclosure
Dr Mariela Carvajal-Gallardo
Financial reporting, accounting disclosure and corporate governance.
Dr Konan Seny Kan
Accounting Performance management, configural approach in management and accounting, ocal/endogenous management practices, corporate governance mechanisms and practices
Dr Sriyalatha Kumarasinghe
Japanese management and management accounting, organisational behaviour and performance management, entry mode strategies and performance of multinational enterprises, business ethics, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility
Dr Mansi Mansi
Sustainable procurement, sustainability disclosures, biodiversity management, disclosures
Dr Muhammad Nadeem
Intellectual Capital, measurement and management, Gender diversity and corporate governance, Sustainability and sustainability disclosure, and Capital budgeting and investment decisions
Dr Rakesh Pandey
Corporate governance and accountability, social and environmental accounting and reporting and sustainability, workplace spirituality and performance
Dr Dinithi Ranasinghe
Corporate governance, financial reporting, behavioural accounting, value relevance, benchmarks and disclosure, accounting choices
Dr Yongxian Tan
Capital market research, corporate governance and corporate innovation
Associate Professor Ros Whiting
Accounting treatment of intellectual capital and intangible assets, career and gender issues in the accounting profession and corporate governance, active-based student learning in accounting, business succession planning
Finance
Dr Gurmeet Bhabra
Empirical corporate finance, corporate control, corporate governance, dividend policy, corporate restructuring
Dr Daisy Chou
Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance, Financial markets
Professor Timothy Falcon Crack
Empirical capital markets, derivatives, econometrics, quantitative active equity trading strategies, fixed income theory, market microstructure
Sebastian Gehricke
derivative markets,volatility derivatives, climate finance and entrepreneurial finance
Associate Professor Ivan Diaz-Rainey
Environmental and climate finance, energy markets, energy policy, financial institutions and regulation, capital markets, financial innovation
Dr Xing Han
Empirical asset pricing, market microstructure and liquidity, volatility forecasting
Dr Duminda Kuruppuarachchi
Market Efficiency of Financial Markets, Information Spillovers in Financial Markets, and Financial Modelling
Dr Olena Onishchenko
Stock market anomalies and market microstructure.
Professor I M Premachandra
Empirical finance, financial modelling, performance evaluation, applied probability theory, simulation, application of operations research techniques in finance
Dr Helen Roberts
The relationship between CEO compensation, firm performance and corporate governance
Dr Anindya Sen
Investment analysis, portfolio management, financial derivatives, quantitative strategy
Dr Eric Tan
Investments, fund managements, financial markets and institutions, corporate finance, corporate governance
Professor Jin Zhang
Derivatives and quantitative finance
