Omaima Hassan
Lecturer in Financial Accounting
Economics and Finance
Brunel University
Uxbridge, UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Biography
Qualifications
- PhD in Accounting and Finance
- MSc in Accounting and Auditing
- BSc in Accounting with honours
Personal Biography
Omaima Hassan is a lecturer in financial accounting in the School of Social Sciences, where she teaches Introduction to Financial Accounting to level one students and company valuation for PG students in Finance and Accounting. Before joining Brunel, Omaima was a part-time lecturer at the University of Abertay Dundee where she taught different modules such as Financial Accounting to non-specialists and Corporate Finance to students enrolled in the BA Management.
Research
Research Overview
I am interested in research in the area of financial reporting and corporate governance. In particular, the determinants and economic consequences of corporate disclosure; the impact of corporate governance on the level and quality of corporate disclosure; accounting quality and financial reporting quality; measurement of corporate disclosure; the information content of accounting information; market and accounting risk measures.
PhD Supervision
Soud Matar; Nov 2008 -
Teaching
Undergraduate Programmes
Module convenor
- Introduction to Financial Accounting
Programme convenor
- Finance and Accounting Programme
- Economics and Accounting Programme
Postgraduate Programmes
Module convenor
- Company Valuation
Administration
- Senior tutor role
- ACCA Relations and accounting tutor
- Member of the employability team
- UCAS Days and Open Days
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(Forthcoming) Hassan, O., Giorgioni, G., Romilly, P. and Power, DM., The information gap in corporate annual reports: evidence from Egypt, African Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (AJAAF) Forthcoming
(2011) Hassan, OAG., Giorgioni, G., Romilly, P. and Power, DM., Voluntary disclosure and risk in an emerging market, Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies 1 (1) : 33- 52
(2009) Hassan, O. and Power, DM., The usefulness of accounting information; evidence from the Egyptian market, Qualitative Research in Financial Markets 1 (3) : 125- 141
(2009) Hassan, OAG., Romilly, P., Giorgioni, G. and Power, D., The value relevance of disclosure: Evidence from the emerging capital market of Egypt, International Journal of Accounting 44 (1) : 79- 102
(2006) Hassan, OAG., Giorgioni, G. and Romilly, P., The extent of financial disclosure and its determinants in an emerging capital market: the case of Egypt, International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation 3 (1) : 41- 67
