Corporate Governance and Regulatory Issues

• The impact of CEO incentives and the link to ethical decision making?
• How do different regulatory environments affect fintech development?
• Understanding gender equality in the public sector
• The role of the external auditing and how it impacts upon the organisation’s financial position

Accounting Industry and Accounting Education Issues

• The role of not-for-profit organisations in the finance industry – what can organisations such as credit unions offer customers who are excluded from mainstream financial institutions?
• Exploring accounting students’ attitudes towards ethical issues and ethical decision making
• Pedagogical issues in accounting – what subjects should accountants of the future be studying in an age of artificial intelligence?

Outsourcing, Performance Management and Assets Management

• Understanding government outsourcing and value for money
• Performance measurement in the public/private sector – understanding effectiveness of methods/frameworks in public and private sector organisations
• Asset pricing issues – (factor investing, bubble detection, mispricing of stocks during economic uncertainties, financialisation of commodities and precious metals, risk and return)

Financial and Narrative Reporting

• Understanding effective narrative reporting by listed companies (corporate social responsibility, risk reporting and human capital risk reporting).
• Understanding how Regtech can streamline reporting and monitoring for financial institutions?

Financial Technology Issues

• Understanding Financial Technology and how it will impact Banking in the Future
• How does AI-driven valuation compare to traditional methods?
• Auditing Distributed Ledgers: Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Financial Audits
• Exploring empirical analysis of Cryptocurrencies and Stablecoins

Other General and Strategic Management Issues

We would also consider more general strategic management areas linked to:

• Marketing and Advertising
• Leadership, Human Resource Management, and Organisational Behaviour.
• Entrepreneurship and Small business Development
• Operations and Supply Chain Management,