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Applied accounting research

Explore our research into applied accounting

A strong accounting profession and effective management of financial resources are essential to financial stability and economic development. Globalisation and recent financial crises have further highlighted the importance of enhancing the quality of accounting practices.

Our Applied Accounting and Financial Management research aims to investigate the behaviours, actions and responses of both providers and users of accounting information. In doing so, our work sets out to improve standards across the accounting and financial management field, and to stimulate debate within it.

In this area, we aim to study problems and issues related to the implementation and application of high-quality standards, codes and best practices. Furthermore, advances in information technology is another issue that affects the practices of accounting and financial management.

Our research covers the following key topics

  • Financial reporting and auditing
  • Big data accounting
  • Performance measurement
  • Capital market based research

Our research makes use of both quantitative and qualitative research methods – including content analysis, archival analysis, regressions, structural equation models, linguistic analysis, questionnaire, interviews and experiments.

Funding and collaborations

Recent research projects have been funded by major organisations, such as The British Academy, Financial Reporting Council, British Council, Economic History Society bursary, Food Standards Agency and the UK Innovate.

Much of our research is collaborative and cross-disciplinary in nature – recent projects have seen us work in partnership with the University's Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Science and Health.

Projects

  • Being a representative: Exploring Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in board representation in large UK companies

    Karen McBride. The fund is received from the British Academy.

  • Country by Country Reporting and Tax avoidance: UK evidence

    Ahmed Aboud (PI) has won a fund of £3,060 from the British Academy to empirically examine the impact of country-by-country reporting on tax avoidance for the British companies.

  • Institutional Mechanisms and Climate Change Risk Reporting

    Khaldoon Albitar (PI) and Ali Gerged (De Montfort University) have won a fund of £5,986.00 from the British Academy (The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants) to explore the effect of country-level characteristics on Climate Change Risk Reporting.

  • Remuneration Research Project

    Ahmed Aboud, Tarek Abdelfattah, Khaled Hussainey, and Karen McBride (PI) won a fund of £40,529 from the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) to explore changes in remuneration reporting following the UK corporate governance code 2018.

  • The impacts of political connections on new business ventures

    Konstantinos Kallias, Hang Pham (University of Essex) and (St Andrews University) have won a fund of £9,714 from the British Academy (The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants) to explore the impact of political connections on new business ventures.

Publication highlights

Conferences

  • In 2017, we hosted the 5th European Research Conference, a prestigious gathering of experts in the field of Microfinance.
  • In September 2022, the Accounting History Journal and the University of Portsmouth hosted The 11th Accounting History International Conference, a bi-annual event which brings together accounting history researchers from all over the world.

Our members

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Dr Imam Arafat

Senior Lecturer

imam.arafat@port.ac.uk

Accounting and Financial Management

Faculty of Business and Law

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Dr Awad Ibrahim

Senior Lecturer

awad.ibrahim@port.ac.uk

Portsmouth Business School

Faculty of Business and Law

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Professor Lisa Jack

Professor of Accounting

Lisa.Jack@port.ac.uk

Portsmouth Business School

Faculty of Business and Law

PhD Supervisor

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Dr Konstantinos Kallias

Senior Lecturer

konstantinos.kallias@port.ac.uk

School of Accounting, Economics and Finance

Faculty of Business and Law

PhD Supervisor

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Professor Jia Liu

Professor of Accounting and Finance

jia.liu@port.ac.uk

School of Accounting, Economics and Finance

Faculty of Business and Law

PhD Supervisor

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Professor Karen McBride

Professor of Accounting

Karen.McBride@port.ac.uk

School of Accounting, Economics and Finance

Faculty of Business and Law

PhD Supervisor

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Ms Rebecca Nicolaides

Associate Head (Students)

Rebecca.Nicolaides@port.ac.uk

School of Accounting, Economics and Finance

Faculty of Business and Law

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Dr Roza Sagitova

Senior Lecturer

roza.sagitova@port.ac.uk

Portsmouth Business School

Faculty of Business and Law

PhD Supervisor

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Dr Dan Shen

Senior Lecturer

Dan.Shen@port.ac.uk

Portsmouth Business School

Faculty of Business and Law

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Dr Xiaodong Wang

Senior Lecturer

Research Fellow

Xiaodong.Wang@port.ac.uk

School of Accounting, Economics and Finance

Faculty of Business and Law

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Discover our areas of expertise

Applied accounting and financial management is one of our four areas of expertise in our Accounting research area. Explore the others below.

Accounting history

We're exploring the past of accountancy, through archives and historical documentation, to learn about the issues experienced by previous generations. Explore our accounting history research.

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Forensic accounting, management control and governance

We're exploring how accounting can help organisations combat financial crime, deal with the challenges of new technologies and more effectively govern themselves – to the benefit of all.

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Accounting education

Through our research, we're taking a closer look at how best to educate the next generation of accounting professionals around the world.

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Interested in a PhD in Accounting?

Browse our postgraduate research degrees – including PhDs and MPhils – at our Accounting postgraduate research degrees page.