RESEARCHING
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• Internationally recognised expertise, acquired over two decades of research and teaching, in Corporate Governance, Auditing and Sustainability.
• Focusing on the intersection of auditing, reporting, governance and sustainability and using mixed methods (archival, survey and qualitative) and multiple (agency, institutional and power) theoretical perspectives my research brings novel insights to the literature and contribute to understanding of issues relevant to policy and practice.
• Key contributions and on-going research relate to audit committee and board effectiveness, audit quality, auditor reporting, standard setting and regulation, corporate governance, sustainability reporting and assurance.
Areas of research expertise and contributions include:
- ESG and Sustainability
- reporting practices and emerging best practice and regulation
- integrated reporting, sustainability reporting, CSR
- assurance of sustainability reports and non-financial reporting
- Corporate Governance, Performance and Accountability
- board of directors and audit committee effectiveness
- role of state and policy makers in influencing reforms and shaping governance practice.
- international and national (regulatory and cultural) influences on governance practice, corporate governance quality, auditing
Auditing and Assurance
- audit quality, auditor choice, remuneration, auditor independence.
- auditor reporting, assurance, audit committees, standard setting
- internal audit and control, risk management
- Business Communication and Coporate Reporting
- the effects of governance on performance and reporting quality.
- audit quality, auditor choice and auditor independence.
- ethical reporting, Islamic banking