The Accounting Research Institute (ARI) is happy to announce the arrivalof two visiting professors in April 2013. Professor Stuart Locke from the University of Waikato, New Zealand will be in Universiti Teknologi MARA for a week from 22nd April to 28th April 2013. Meanwhile, Professor Kabir Hassan from the University of New Orleans will be visiting the university for two weeks from 22nd April to 3rd May 2013. Professor Stuart Locke has a background in finance, economics, valuation and chartered accountancy, and is Chairperson of the Department of Finance. His current research interests are in corporate governance, agribusiness finance, small business finance and personal financial planning, and he is a frequent media commentator on these topics. Stuart oversees the Management Research Centre, the commercial consultancy arm of the School which is now part of the IBR. The MRC produces financial benchmarking and business performance studies in conjunction with the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants (NZICA). Stuart has been on the Board of the Waikato Chamber of Commerce and is actively involved with NZICA facilitating professional accountancy school programmes. ARI's first collaboration with Stuart was the coorganization of an International Corporate Governance Conference in New Delhi, India in February 2012. Professor Kabir Hassan has been with the University of New Orleans since
1990. Prof. Hassan is a financial economist with teaching, research and consulting experiences in financial markets and institutions, Islamic Finance, corporate finance, applied economics and development finance. He has published a lot of articles in refereed academic journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Services Research, Applied Financial Economics, and Atlantic Economic Journal, and presented numerous papers in professional meetings in many parts of the world. Prof. Hassan has received many awards and recognition for his outstanding teaching and research performances. He has received a number of research grants to conduct research in international trade, banking and finance areas. In fact Prof Kabir Hassan was one of the keynote speakers at the last Islamic Accounting conference in November 2012. We welcome both of them. A lot of activities have been arranged for both scholars.
The Accounting Research Institute (ARI) is happy to announce the arrivalof two visiting professors in April 2013. Professor Stuart Locke from the University of Waikato, New Zealand will be in Universiti Teknologi MARA for a week from 22nd April to 28th April 2013. Meanwhile, Professor Kabir Hassan from the University of New Orleans will be visiting the university for two weeks from 22nd April to 3rd May 2013. Professor Stuart Locke has a background in finance, economics, valuation and chartered accountancy, and is Chairperson of the Department of Finance. His current research interests are in corporate governance, agribusiness finance, small business finance and personal financial planning, and he is a frequent media commentator on these topics. Stuart oversees the Management Research Centre, the commercial consultancy arm of the School which is now part of the IBR. The MRC produces financial benchmarking and business performance studies in conjunction with the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants (NZICA). Stuart has been on the Board of the Waikato Chamber of Commerce and is actively involved with NZICA facilitating professional accountancy school programmes. ARI's first collaboration with Stuart was the coorganization of an International Corporate Governance Conference in New Delhi, India in February 2012. Professor Kabir Hassan has been with the University of New Orleans since 1990. Prof. Hassan is a financial economist with teaching, research and consulting experiences in financial markets and institutions, Islamic Finance, corporate finance, applied economics and development finance. He has published a lot of articles in refereed academic journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Services Research, Applied Financial Economics, and Atlantic Economic Journal, and presented numerous papers in professional meetings in many parts of the world. Prof. Hassan has received many awards and recognition for his outstanding teaching and research performances. He has received a number of research grants to conduct research in international trade, banking and finance areas. In fact Prof Kabir Hassan was one of the keynote speakers at the last Islamic Accounting conference in November 2012. We welcome both of them. A lot of activities have been arranged for both scholars.
