Staff profile

Dr Andrews Owusu


Associate Professor in Accounting

Dr Andrews Owusu wearing a suit and tie

Subject

Accounting, Economics and Finance

College

College of Business, Law and Social Sciences

Department

Derby Business School

Research centre

Accounting Research Cluster, Centre for Business Improvement

ORCiD ID

0000-0002-9910-3610

Campus

Kedleston Road, Derby Campus

Email

a.owusu@derby.ac.uk

About

Andrews Owusu is an Associate Professor in Accounting and Lead of the Accounting, Accountability and Ethics Research Group at the University of Derby, UK. He has previously worked across three UK HEIs in various capacities, including Lecturer in Accountancy, Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Associate Professor in Accounting. Before moving to academia, he worked in different accounting roles in the private sector. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), with extensive experience in teaching in higher education. He also has experience in developing and reviewing undergraduate/postgraduate programmes to successful accreditation or re-accreditation by professional accountancy bodies.

He is currently a member of the College Research Degree Committee and College Research Ethics Committee at the College of Business, Law and Social Sciences. He has previously served as an elected Academic Council member of the Robert Gordon University. He has also mentored academics in both nationally and internationally.

His research expertise and interests are in the area of accounting and corporate governance with a particular focus on corporate governance and financial reporting, the intersection of auditor characteristics and audit outcomes, accounting in the extractive industries, and market-based research. He has published widely in leading peer-reviewed international journals such as Long Range Planning, Journal of Accounting Literature, Journal of Business Ethics, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, among others. He has supervised a number of PhD candidates to completion and examined multiple theses (PhD) both nationally and internationally. He will also consider research proposals that are aligned with his research expertise and interests from prospective PhD candidates.

In the larger academic community, he serves as a Section Editor of Journal of Applied Accounting Research and Editorial Board Member of Journal of Governance and Regulation. He has also served as an Ad-hoc Reviewer for a number of leading international journals.

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