Department of Accounting and Finance

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Research and activities

Industry engagement 

Insights from the research projects carried out by our academics have been applied by top financial institutions such as Eurobank (Greece and Romania) or Analysis Group Inc (USA). Our academics have also provided consultancy services to well-known companies and NGOs, including Channel Capital Advisors, McGraw-Hill, Natural Resource Defence Council (USA), Oxford Analytica, Oxfam and Resource Consulting Services. 

Recognition of the Department’s research standing 

The co-authored papers “Accounting for Jewish ‘Bare Life’ in the Fossoli Concentration Camp 1943-44” (Professor Warwick Funnell and Dr Michele Bigoni) and “Accounting for the Banality of Evil: Expropriation of Jewish Property in Fascist Italy 1939-1945” (Professor Warwick Funnell) have been accepted as part of the permanent collection of Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. 

 The co-authored book “A History of British National Audit” (Professor Warwick Funnell) was launched in the Palace of Westminster in London by the British Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee. The Comptroller and Auditor General also wrote the Preface to the book. 

 Awards

The members of the Accounting and Finance Department have been awarded several prestigious prizes, including: 

  • the American Accounting Association’s Hourglass Award (Professor Warwick Funnell) 
  • the American Accounting Association’s Barbara D. Merino Award (Professor Warwick Funnell) 
  • the American Accounting Association’s Margit F. and Hanns Martin Schoenfeld Scholarship (Dr Michele Bigoni) 
  • the Italian Society of Accounting history’s Antonio Bisaschi Prize (Professor Warwick Funnell and Dr Michele Bigoni) 
  • the Spanish Accounting and Business Administration Association’s Enrique Fernandez Pena Prize (Professor Warwick Funnell). 

Editorships

Dr Abigail Hilson is an Editor-in-Chief for the journal World Development Sustainability and a Subject Editor for the journal Social Sciences & Humanities Open. She is also a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal The Extractive Industries and Society. 

Professor Warwick Funnell is a member of the Editorial Board for Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal and Accounting History.  

Dr Michele Bigoni is a member of the Editorial Board for Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal.  

Dr Abdullah Iqbal is a member of Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management. 

Plenary/Key-Note Talks

Professor Warwick Funnell 
14th International Accounting History Research Seminar, Seville (Spain), 27-28 June 2019. 

Dr Michele Bigoni 
14th International Accounting History Research Seminar, Seville (Spain), 27-28 June 2019. 

Dr Abdullah Iqbal
International Conference on Administration Management and Social Studies (ICAMSS), Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), 13-14 September 2019.
8th South Asian International Conference (SAICON), Islamabad (Pakistan), 24-26 August 2016.