Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

I have more than seven years of academic experience of teaching accounting and finance subjects for a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at higher education institutions in the UK. I hold a PhD in Business and Management (Finance), fellowship of Advanced Higher Education (FHEA) and an MSc in International Banking and Finance from the University of Salford, Manchester.

Prior to joining the University of Bedfordshire, I have worked at the University of Ulster from 2018 - 2021 and the University of Salford, Manchester, from 2014 - 2018. I have taught a wide range of accounting and finance subjects and supervised placement students.

My principal research interests lie in the field of asset pricing and investment analysis. I am an expert user of STATA, R, EViews, SPSS, Zotero and Endnote. I have extensive experience of working with large datasets using financial databases such as Thomson Reuters Datastream and Bloomberg.

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Qualifications

• PhD in Finance – University of Salford
• Postgraduate Certification of Academic Practice (PGCAP) – University of Salford
• MSc International Banking and Finance (Distinction) – University of Salford
• CIMA – Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (SCS Level)
• BSc (Hons) Business – Forman Christian College University, Lahore

Teaching Expertise

• Introduction to Accounting and Finance
• Financial Reporting and Analysis
• Financial Modelling
• Management Accounting
• Financial Management and Information Systems
• Financial Planning and Software Application

Research Interests

• Asset Pricing
• Risk Management
• International Financial Markets
• Corporate Finance

Research

• Asset Pricing in the global equity markets
• Investment management

Conferences

• ‘Cross-sectional and Time series Asset pricing, 9-11 April 2021, British Accounting and Finance Association, Annual Conference (Online)
• ‘A horse race of empirical asset pricing models in international equity markets’, 10-11 April 2018, British Accounting and Finance Association, Annual Conference, Central Hall Westminister, London.
• ‘Application of Gold return as risk-free rate in asset pricing: The case of Empirical factor models’, 12 - 13 June, 2017, Young Finance Scholars Conference, University of Sussex.
• ‘Assessing application of gold return to improve asset pricing in developed markets’, 10-12 April 2017, British Accounting and Finance Association, Annual Conference, Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh.
• ‘Whether gold can be used to improve asset pricing in developed markets’, 6 - 7 May, 2016, 2^nd International Conference in Applied Theory, Macro and Empirical Finance, The University of Macedonia, Greece.
• ‘Gold Capital Asset Pricing Model: Whether Gold can be used to predict market boom or crisis’ 8 - 9 June, 2015, 5^th Annual International Conference on Accounting and Finance, Singapore.

Contact Details

E: muhammad.abdullah@beds.ac.uk