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
• 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