Accounting
The Accounting Group at Queen's Management School brings together expertise in accounting, accounting change, budgeting, governance, performance management and reporting in not-for-profit and public sector organisations.
Our supportive research environment fosters meaningful engagement with the non-academic world and facilitates the pursuit of high-quality publications. Our research has appeared in leading peer-reviewed scholarly journals including Abacus, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Accounting Forum, British Accounting Review, Financial Accountability & Management, and the Journal of Business Ethics and Public Administration.
We provide excellent research-led teaching to undergraduates, postgraduates and working professionals, and our staff regularly consult with financial and policy-making institutions such as the UK and Republic of Ireland Governments and the Bank of England.
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Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022for Accounting & Finance
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- Head of Accounting Group: Professor Ciaran Connolly
- BSc Accounting Programme Director: Dr Danielle McConville
- MSc Accounting and Finance Programme Director: Professor Martin Quinn
Queen’s Management School hosts an active community of doctoral students in Accounting and related disciplines. Each student is supervised by at least two members of academic staff.
Prospective students who do not yet have the requisite background in Accounting to pursue PhD research directly are encouraged to apply for our MSc Accounting and Finance programme, which embeds core research training skills throughout the degree.
The research focus and strengths of the Accounting Group align with the School’s Centre for Not-for-profit and Public-sector Research (CNPR), an interdisciplinary research centre which aims to promote research into issues relating to public-sector and not-for-profit organisations.
Latest Publications
The development and implementation of GRI Standards: practice and policy issues
- Carol Adams
- Abdullah M. Alhamood
- Xinwu He
- Jie Tian
- Le Wang
- Yi Wang
Corporate failure in the UK: An examination of corporate governance reforms
- Mohamed Elsayed
- Tamer Elshandidy
- Yousry Ahmed
Exploring the Links Between IT Tools, Management Accounting Practices and SME Performance: Perceptions of CFOs in Ireland
- Peter Cleary
- Martin Quinn
- Páll Ríkharðsson
- Catherine Batt
On the likelihood and type of merger and acquisition in the US listed companies: the role of females on the board
- Yousry Ahmed
- Yu Song
- Mohamed Elsayed
Concept maps and visualisation as a means of triangulation in management accounting and control research
- Antje Bruesch
- Martin Quinn
Accounting Research Project Spotlight
The accounting, reporting, governance and regulation in the UK and Republic of Ireland's charity sectors was reframed by research conducted by Professor Ciaran Connolly and Professor Emeritus Noel Hyndman. This included contributions towards developing current and future Statements of Recommended Practice (SORP) and producing Northern Ireland’s legal reporting requirements.
Click here to read more about shaping the regulation of charity accounting and reporting research.