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.
Jenni Wright
Department Manager
Margaret Grundy
Department 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
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
Dr Sriyalatha Kumarasinghe
Japanese management and management accounting, organisational behaviour and performance management
Dr Mansi Mansi
Sustainable procurement, sustainability disclosures, biodiversity management and disclosures
Dr Rakesh Pandey
Corporate governance and accountability, social and environmental accounting and reporting and sustainability
Dr Dinithi Ranasinghe
Corporate governance, Financial Reporting, Behavioural Accounting
Dr Yongxian Tan
Fundamentals of Accounting; Financial Analysis
Associate Professor Ros Whiting
Accounting treatment of intellectual capital and intangible assets, career and gender issues in the accounting profession and corporate governance
Finance
Dr Gurmeet Bhabra
Empirical corporate finance
Dr Scott Chaput
Derivatives and fixed income
Dr Daisy Chou
Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance, Financial markets
Professor Timothy Falcon Crack
Empirical capital markets, derivatives, econometrics
Associate Professor Ivan Diaz-Rainey
Finance and innovation
Dr Xing Han
Empirical asset pricing, market microstructure and liquidity, volatility forecasting
Dr Olena Onishchenko
Stock market anomalies and market microstructure. Course approver and advisor, member of the AKO teaching and learning committee
Professor I M Premachandra
Empirical finance and financial modelling, performance evaluation, applied probability theory
Dr Helen Roberts
The relationship between CEO compensation, firm performance and corporate governance
Dr Anindya Sen
Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
Dr Eric Tan
Investments and fund managements
Professor Jin Zhang
Derivatives and Quantitative Finance
