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School of Business and Management

Professor Gilad Livne

Gilad

Professor of Accounting; Head of Department of Accounting and Financial Management

Email: g.livne@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

Roles

Biography: Gilad Livne is a professor of accounting at the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London. Previously Gilad served on the accounting faculty of the London Business School, Bayes Business School, University of Exeter Business School and University of Bristol Business School. He received his PhD in accounting at the University of California at Berkeley in 1996. Gilad is a CPA (Certified Public Accountant, Israel) and worked several years as a senior auditor in Israel, after completing his BA in accounting and economics at Tel Aviv University.

Gilad‘s teaching involves financial statement analysis, international accounting as well as introductory and advanced financial accounting courses. Gilad has taught Undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, Sloan and MSc programmes. In addition to his normal teaching duties Gilad has also been teaching at the HEC (Paris), New Economic School (Moscow), Lancaster University, University of Lausanne (Switzerland), Oulu University (Finland) and on various company-specific programmes.  Gilad has also conducted consulting activities on corporate disclosure issues. He has served as a commentator on accounting subjects on TV (BBC Breakfast, BBC 24 Sky News) as well as on various radio programmes.

Gilad’s research looks into auditor independence, international accounting, fair value accounting, and compensation. Gilad currently serves on a number of editorial boards of accounting journals. His research has been published in several journals including Accounting and Business Research, European Accounting Review, Journal of Banking and finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Corporate Finance, The Accounting Review, and Review of Accounting Studies.

Gilad is also a co-author of Applying IFRS Standards,” 4th Edition, Wiley, 2016 and co-editor of Routledge Companion to Fair Value and Financial Accounting, 2nd Edition, 2018.

Research

Research Interests:

Gilad research interests include auditor independence, auditing, audit committees, international accounting, fair value accounting, intangible, and compensation. Gilad is interested in supervising PhD students in these areas.

Publications

Books

 

Peer-reviewed articles

 

Book chapters

  • “Fair value accounting and executive compensation,” 2018, in Routledge Companion to Fair Value and Financial Accounting, 2nd Edition, co-authored with Garen Markarian

  • “Accounting for Human Capital,” 2014, Volume 1 Accounting, pp. 9-12 (edited by Colin Clubb and Shahed Imam), Wiley Encyclopedia of Management 3rd edition, Cary L. Cooper, Editor-in-Chief, Wiley (Chichester); Available online at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118785317

  • “Threats to Auditor Independence and Possible Remedies,” 2012, Effective Auditing for Corporates, pp. 41-56, Bloomsbury Publishing

 

Professional publications

Supervision

Current 

  •  Qiang Ai (From 2018) 

Completed (and first appointment) 

  • Dr Xiao Chen – Industry (2022) 
  • Dr Itay Sharony - Tel Aviv University (2021)  
  • Dr Jonathan Jona – University of Melbourne (2014) 
  • Dr Sarayut Rueangsuwan – Kasetsart University (2017) 
  • Dr Angela Pettinicchio – Bocconi (2010) 
  • Dr Elisa Cavezalli – University of Venice (2010)  

Gilad research interests include auditor independence, auditing, audit committees, international accounting, fair value accounting, intangible, and compensation. Gilad is interested in supervising PhD students in these areas.

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