Research Centre for Contemporary Accounting, Finance and Economics

International Finance and Banking

• International Financial /Capital Markets
• Corporate Finance
• Oil & Gas Finance and Investment Appraisal (O&G Exploration Project Management)
• Banking and Financial Services in Global/Emerging Markets
• Investment Banking (incorporating Financial Derivatives Trading Management)
• Role of Disruptive Technologies in the Financial Services Sector

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

Economics

• Applied Macroeconomics
• Financial Economics
• Business Investment Decisions under Uncertainty
• The Social Consequences of IMF intervention and economic adjustment policies
• International Trade Flows and Exchange Rates
• Financial Volatilities and Price Dynamics

Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

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