ResCAFE: Proposed research topics for PhD applicants

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

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