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Research Interests

Research Interests. Walter Mkumbuzi The York Management School Accounting and Finance 25 September 2008. Outline. Background of research interests Research to date Current working papers Areas for further development. Background of research interests. Financial reporting

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Research Interests

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  1. Research Interests Walter Mkumbuzi The York Management School Accounting and Finance 25 September 2008

  2. Outline • Background of research interests • Research to date • Current working papers • Areas for further development

  3. Background of research interests • Financial reporting • external audit and academic • Corporate governance • internal audit, external audit and academic • Intellectual capital management and reporting • personal and academic • Technology transfer and poverty alleviation • work experience and academic • International business • work experience and academic

  4. Research to date • Title of Thesis • The influence of intellectual capital investment, risk, industry membership and corporate governance on the voluntary disclosure of intellectual capital by UK listed companies • 450 companies • Competitive advantage, resource based view of the firm, signalling theory, competitive cost hypothesis and agency theory • Empirical analysis (Annual reports, DataStream and STATA)

  5. Research to date • E-learning project: Questionnaire survey • 1400 SME, data capture analysis and reporting • Sign posting selected SME employees to on-line courses • NHS survey: Questionnaire survey • 32 000 population • Questionnaire management • Mergers and acquisition: • Brewing and textile industries • Data capture, bid premium/discount calculations (late 1800’s to date) (The Times Digital Archive, LSE Intelligence Reports)

  6. Current working papers Regulation and auditing of Intellectual Capital Target: Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability (Funding source: ACCA/ICAEW) Firm resources, corporate governance and the disclosure of intangible assets Target: British Accounting Review (ex. PhD Thesis)

  7. Current working papers The Extent of IC disclosure in UK Companies: A longitudinal study (Funding IAS) Target: Journal of Intellectual Capital (ex. PhD Thesis). Paper presented at the 3rd EIASM workshop “Visualising, Measuring, and Managing Intangibles and Intellectual Capital” Ferrara, 29-31 October 2007 An Evaluation of the Academic Performance of Postgraduate Students’: A UK Management School Perspective (Funding: York: Learning and Teaching) Target: The International Journal of Management Education

  8. Areas for further development • Investigating new theoretical approaches to the study of the MVBV phenomenon within the context of intangibles • Knowledge transfer, governance, economic development

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