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
Client Services Administrator
Stephen Hall-Jones
Client Services Administrator
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
Dr Nicola Beatson
Performance management
Dr Pallab Biswas
Corporate governance in emerging countries, corporate social responsibility reporting, capital market disclosure
Dr Frederico Botafogo
Accounting theory
Dr Mariela Carvajal-Gallardo
Financial reporting, accounting disclosure and corporate governance
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 Zihan Liu
Corporate non-financial reporting, corporate governance, and auditing and assurance.
Professor David Lont
Capital markets, economics of financial reporting and auditing
Dr Hoa Luong
Financial services, financial technologies, blockchain, artificial intelligence, data analytics, performance measurement and management, accounting information systems, corporate governance, executive compensation, mergers and acquisitions
Dr Yimei Man
Corporate governance, includes agency conflicts, earnings management, firm performance, auditing characteristics
Dr Dinithi Ranasinghe
Corporate governance, financial reporting, behavioural accounting, value relevance, benchmarks and disclosure, accounting choices
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
Pakorn (Beam) Aschakulporn
Derivatives and quantitative finance
Dr Muhammad A. Cheema
Asset pricing, behavioural finance, energy economics
Dr Sebastian Gehricke
Derivative markets, volatility derivatives, climate finance and entrepreneurial finance
Dr Duminda Kuruppuarachchi
Market efficiency of financial markets, information spillovers in financial markets, and financial modelling
Dr Tu Cam Nguyen
Corporate finance and corporate governance
Dr Olena Onishchenko
Stock market anomalies and market microstructure
Associate Professor Helen Roberts
The relationship between CEO compensation, firm performance and corporate governance
Dr Xinfeng (Edwin) Ruan
Asset pricing, derivatives, investment
Dr Anindya Sen
Investment analysis, portfolio management, financial derivatives, quantitative strategy
Dr Muhammad Tahir Suleman
Political Uncertainty, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance, Default Risk, and Financial Markets Research
Professors Emeriti
Professor Timothy Falcon Crack
Professor Inguruwatt Premachandra
