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Research interests

ResCAF research interests

Financial Reporting, Auditing and Corporate Governance

  • Financial reporting on financial derivatives usage and firms market value
  • Intangibles
  • Auditor, audit fees and firms' cost of capital
  • Evolving role of non-executive directors within corporate governance
  • Prediction models of mergers and takeovers

Management Accounting

  • Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
  • Performance evaluation and management
  • Capital investment decisions
  • Fuzzy set theory applications into management accounting
  • Gender and budgetary participation

Simulation, Econometrics and Finance

  • Creation and calibration of a ‘Microworld’ (a simulated model learning environment) to assist policy maker and student understanding of the 2008-9 corporate banking crisis
  • Creation and calibration of a ‘Microworld’ (a simulated model learning environment) to assist policy maker and student understanding of the financial crisis from 2007 to the present
  • Creation and calibration of a ‘Microworld’ (a simulated model learning environment) to assist policy maker and student understanding of the financial impact of new solvency rules on corporate banks
  • Application of artificial intelligence algorithms in financial forecasting, risk management and option pricing
  • Trading filters and strategies
  • Application of non-linear optimisation techniques in portfolio management
  • Hindu financial management systems - the Mahabharat period to contemporary economic phenomenon in India

Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

  • Carbon cost accounting - impact on private and public sector
  • Growth creation and sustainability in ancient India - lessons for the modern corporation and CSR
  • Management accounting and sustainability
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