Dr Androniki Triantafylli

Profile

Roles:

• Reader in Accounting
• Director of Student Engagement and Advising
• Chair of the SBM Extenuating Circumstances Committee
• Member of the Department of Accounting and Financial Management

Biography:

Androniki Triantafylli received her PhD with Distinction from Athens University of Economics and Business in 2009. Prior to joining Queen Mary Business School in 2013 as a lecturer in accounting, she was a lecturer in management accounting at Manchester Business School, and a post-doctoral lecturer at ESSEC Business School in Paris.

Androniki received her undergraduate degree in Accounting and Finance from Athens University of Economics and Business. She received the highest marks upon entrance to the university and was the recipient of the Chalkiopoulou Foundation Scholarship for exceptional performance during her UG studies.

She then worked for PriceWaterHouseCoopers as an auditor and joined the Ministry of Health as a consultant, where she was responsible for the reform of the Management Accounting Planning of the National Health System (a project financed by the European Union). She subsequently continued her studies in accounting and finance by obtaining her MSc from the London School of Economics in 2005, and immediately progressed on to study a doctoral degree. In her doctoral thesis, Androniki developed a model of the use of management control systems according to strategy in the context of shipping companies, by using mixed research methods approaches.

Androniki has served as an external examiner in a number of UK institutions and has also taught in various universities in the UK (University of London, Manchester Business School, University of Glasgow) and abroad (Alba Business School, University of Piraeus, ESSEC Business School (Paris), Athens University of Economics and Business) at various levels (UG, PG, executive education). She is an advisor to the UK government (HMRC) on inflation (through CIMA).

Her research interests lie in the areas of sustainability reporting, corporate governance, corporate value creation, the impact of the pandemic on the bond and capital markets amongst others. Androniki is currently supervising 3 PhD students and she has received funding for 3 of her supervisions. Androniki welcomes new PhD students interested in pursuing high quality research in the areas specified. 

Memberships:

• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member of the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) 
• Member of the European Accounting Association (EAA) 
• Member of the Hellenic Accounting and Finance Association (HFAA)
• Member of the School of Business and Management's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee
• Member of the Accounting & Financial Management Department - Lead for Quality, Assurance and Exams
• Member of the Going for Gold Stream G1.3 on Academic Advising
• Member of the Carer Focus Group
• Member of the Teaching Rooms Project at QMUL
• Member of the Learner Analytics World Café

Teaching

Undergraduate:

• BUS106: Accounting for Business
• BUS139: Introduction to Financial Accounting

Postgraduate:

• BUSM107: Management Accounting and Financial Management

Dr Androniki Triantafylli is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Professional Practice (PGCAP). She is also member of Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE).

Research

Supervision

Areas of supervision expertise:

Androniki's current research interests are concentrated to the use of management control systems as practices with application of a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, especially in the services sector. Areas of particular interest include performance measurement and management, processes of management accounting change and the changing nature of management accounting practices and their impact within business organizations. Androniki has a particular interest in ESG reporting as part of the CSR practices of private companies. She is undertaking research work on  corporate governance, corporate value creation, the impact of the pandemic on the bond and capital markets amongst others. She welcomes PhD proposal applications from researchers in these areas.

She is also serving as an advisor to HMRC on inflation issues (through CIMA).

Doctoral students:

• Parvathy Vijayakumar (recipient of the Queen Mary Principal’s Postgraduate Doctoral Research Studentship - School of Business and Management, 2020), 'An investigation into the implications of corporate governance practices on sustainability reporting.'
• Miss Zeenat Murtaza (recipient of H.E.F.C.E scholarship) "“Keeping it in the family: Corporate Governance, innovation and liquidity management policies in French family companies.” 
• Miss Rong Zhang "Impact of Management Accounting on Corporate Value Creation—Evidence from A-Share Listed Companies of China."

PhD supervision completions:

• Mohammed Kasbar (recipient of the Queen Mary Principal’s Postgraduate Doctoral Research Studentship - School of Business and Management, 2015), 'An empirical evaluation of the role of corporate governance mechanisms in discharging managerial accountability.' Awarded 2020. Currently working as a Teaching Fellow at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London.

Public Engagement

Androniki has formed a series of educational links with a number of institutions as shown below:

• Advisor (with CIMA) in Inflation Working Group recommending Public Policy Changes to HMRC (UK Government) 2022 - present
• National Bank of Greece, advisor/consultancy work on business ethics, 01/03/2021- 01/10/2021
• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), organised a series of workshop/sessions for UG & PG students, 01/09/2018 - present
• Amity University (India), consultancy on accounting curriculum on MSc programs, March 2019
• University of Brunel, external examiner in Accounting and Finance, March 2019 - March 2023
• University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Business School, consultancy on delivery of MSc Dissertations, June 2019 - present
• University of Peiraeus, Department of Banking and Finance (Greece), consultancy on accreditation of curriculum by ICAEW, March 2021 - July 2021
• Alba Graduate Business Schools (Greece), consultancy on development of online Executive Education Program, March 2020 - present
• University of London, Global MBA, Accounting Convenor for Accounting, March 2015 - present

Invited Talks:

• Alba (2020) , EMLyon (2016), Loughborough (2015), Sussex (2013), Cardiff (2012), Stirling (2010), Aston Business School (2009), AUEB (2008)

Scholarly Contributions

Androniki works closely with accounting accreditation bodies and has helped gain ACCA, CIMA and ICAEW accreditation for a number of accounting programmes in the UK and internationally. Androniki is a believer in evidence-based learning and is working in partnership with industry, third sector organisations and the accounting professional bodies to help students build transferrable skills.

Centre and Group Membership:

• Affiliate Member of the Accounting & Accountability Research Group (AARG)
• European Accounting Association (EAA)
• British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA)
• Higher Education Academy- Senior Fellow
• Association of Business Schools (Certified Management & Business Educator)
• Member of the London School of Economics (LSE) Business and Finance Society
• Member of the Economic Chamber of Greece
• Member of the Greek Auditing Society
• Member of the Hellenic Finance and Accounting Association (HFAA)

Fellowship

Awarded the Senior Fellowship of the HEA in October 2018 (recognition number: PR154765/16-10-018).

Publications in (refereed) academic journals

• Huang, C., Patsika, V., Triantafylli, A. and Zhang, Y., 2023, February. Mandatory greenhouse gas emissions reporting and firm environmental litigation risk. In Accounting Forum (pp. 1-29). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2022.2158519

• Kasbar, M.S.H., Tsitsianis, N., Triantafylli, A. and Haslam, C. (2022), "An empirical evaluation of the impact of agency conflicts on the association between corporate governance and firm financial performance", Journal of Applied Accounting Research,  Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAAR-09-2021-0247.

• Triantafylli, A., (2010) "Aligning Strategy and Performance Measurement Systems in the service sector companies: The Greek Example." Performance Measurement and Management Control: Innovative Concepts and Practices 20: 387-425.

• Triantafylli, A., & Ballas, A., (2011) "Management Control Systems and Performance: An Empirical Analysis of the Greek Shipping Industry." Maritime Policy and Management 37, no. 6: 625-660.

Review in accounting books

• Introduction to Accounting, 2019, Oxford University Press, by Peter Scott
• Management Accounting in the Modern Business World, 2013, by Malcolm Prowle, Mike Lucas, Roy Stratton, Glynn Lowth, Palgrave- Macmillan Publication, UK
• Accounting: A smart approach, 2014, by Mary Carey et al., Oxford University Press, U.K
• Research Methods in Accounting, 2012, by Malcolm Smith, Sage Publications, UK
• Cost Management, 2012, by Ronald Hilton, Michael Maher and Frank Selto, Mc Graw – Hill Publications, UK
• IT Strategic and Operational Controls, 2010, by John Kyriazoglou, IT Governance Publications, London

CPD Training

By QMUL:

• Fair Selection and Interview Skills
• Recording Yourself
• PGR Supervisor Refresher Training (HSS)
• Senior Tutor Training
• Academic Promotions Briefing
• Mixed-Mode Education Workshop 
• Staff Recruitment and Interview Selection
• Are you Principal Fellowship ready?
• Introduction to evaluating public engagement
• Principal Fellowship Drafting Workshop

By ABS:

• Dynamic Conversations: Learning Communities

By HEA:

• Student Engagement Conference 2021 and 2022

Working papers

• Huang C., Patsika V., Triantafylli, A., Zhang,Y., (2022) Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting and Firm Environmental Litigation Risk, Accounting Forum, R&R 
• Kasbar, M.,  Tsitsianis N., Triantafylli A., (2022) Direct and mediated relationship among corporate governance, agency conflicts and financial performance, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, (under review)
• Triantafylli A. & Vijayakumar P., (2022) The Impact of Managerial Compensation Plan on the Sustainability Reporting: Mediating Role of Corporate Governance (working paper) 
• Triantafylli A., Kavetsos G., Murtaza Z., (2022) Keeping it in the family: Corporate Governance, innovation and Management policies in French family businesses (working paper) 
• Tzioumis, K., Karouzakis, N., Triantafylli, A., (2022) The evolution of the debt-maturity structure in nonfinancial U.S. firms  (working paper)

Reviewer

• Reviewer in Journals (ad hoc - 2016-today): Journal of Behavioural Finance, Athens Journal of Business and Economics, AAEC Conference (Queen Mary University London)
• Reviewer for BAM (British Academy of Management) Conference, 2022 

Conferences

• Triantafylli A. & Vijayakumar P., (2022) The Impact of Managerial Compensation Plan on the Sustainability Reporting: Mediating Role of Corporate Governance, British Academy of Management Conference (BAM), 31sT August- 2nd September 2022, Manchester, U.K
• Triantafylli A. & Vijayakumar P., (2022) The Impact of Managerial Compensation Plan on the Sustainability Reporting: Mediating Role of Corporate Governance, European Accounting Association Conference (EAA), 11th May-14th May 2022, Bergen, Norway
• Triantafylli A., Is academic advising only for academics? A professional development review, Student Engagement Conference by Advance HE, 12th May 2022, London U.K
• Triantafylli A. & Vijayakumar P., (2022) The Impact of Managerial Compensation Plan on the Sustainability Reporting: Mediating Role of Corporate Governance, British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA), 12th April-13th April, Nottingham, U.K
• Triantafylli A., (2022) Is academic advising only for academics? A professional development review, Learning, Teaching and Srudent Experience Conference, Association of Business Schools (ABS), 23rdMay-24th May, Belfast, U.K
• Triantafylli, A., 2021, Queen Mary Teaching and Learning Conference and Draper’s Lecture, March 2021 [Participant]
• Triantafylli, A., Georgakopoulos, G., & Van der San X., Examining the effect of Corporate Governance Mechanisms on Integrated Reporting Quality, European Accounting Association Conference (E.A.A), Bucharest, 27th-29th May 2021, Online, [Presenter & Chair]
• Androniki Triantafylli,  Mohammed Sulaiman Kasbar, Nick Tsitsianis, Colin Haslam (all authors from the Queen Mary University of London, UK)   'The mediated association among corporate governance, agency conflicts and financial performance’, Financial Management and Accounting Research Conference (FMARC), Paphos, Cyprus, 14th-16th June 2020 [Online] [Presenter]
• Triantafyllli, A., 2019, Chartered Association of Business Schools, Learning, Teaching & Student Experience 2019 Conference, 14th-15th May 2019 Online [Participant]
• Kasbar, M., Tsitsianis, N., Triantafylli, A. and Haslam, C. 2019, ‘Does the relationship between corporate governance and financial performance vary with the variation of the level of agency conflicts?’ The International Journal of Accounting Symposium, Athens, 02nd-04th June 2018  [Presenter]
• Kasbar, M., Tsitsianis, N., Triantafylli, A. and Haslam, C., ‘Does the relationship between corporate governance and financial performance vary with the variation of the level of agency conflicts?’, European Accounting Association Conference (E.A.A), Paphos, 29th-31st May 2018 [Presenter & Chair]
• Triantafyllli, A., 2018, Chartered Association of Business Schools, Learning, Teaching & Student Experience 2018 Conference, Glasgow, 24th-25th April, 2018. [Participant]
• Triantafylli, A., 2018, Queen Mary Teaching and Learning Conference and Draper’s Lecture, 17th January 2018 [Participant]
• Triantafylli, A., Kasbar, M. S. 2017, ‘An Empirical Evaluation of the Impact of Corporate Governance on Firm Financial Performance in FTSE100 between 1999 and 2014’,15th ATINER Conference, Athens, 03rd-06th July 2017. [Presenter]
• Triantafylli, A., Kasbar, M. S. 2017, ‘An Empirical Evaluation of the Impact of Corporate Governance on Firm Financial Performance in FTSE100 between 1999 and 2014’ International Journal of Accounting Conference, University of Cyprus, 8-10 June 2017. [Presenter]
• Triantafyllli, A., 2017, Chartered Association of Business Schools, Learning, Teaching & Student Experience 2017 Conference, Bristol, 25th-26th April, 2017. [Participant]
• Triantafylli, A., 2017, Queen Mary Teaching and Learning Conference and Draper’s Lecture, 25th January 2017 [Participant]
• Triantafylli, A., Kasbar, M. S. 2016, ‘An Empirical Evaluation of the Impact of Corporate Governance Mechanisms on Corporate Financial Performance in the UK. A Grounded Theory Approach’, British Accounting and Finance Association Conference, Sheffield University, 21 December 2016. [Presenter
• Tsitsianis N., Bathia D. & Triantafylli A., The role of Corporate Governance on Performance: Evidence on  FTSE100 firms, 14th ATINER Conference, Athens, 04th-07th July 2016 [Presenter]
• Tsitsianis N., Bathia D. & Triantafylli A., The role of Corporate Governance on Performance: Evidence on  FTSE100 firms, BAFA Conference, Bath 21-23 March 2016 [Presenter]
• Triantafylli, A., 2016, Queen Mary Teaching and Learning Conference and Draper’s Lecture, 20th January 2016 [Participant]
• Tsitsianis N., Bathia D. & Triantafylli A., The role of Corporate Governance on Performance: Evidence on  FTSE100 firms, BAM Conference, Portsmouth, 08th-10th September 2015 [Presenter]
• Triantafylli, A., 2015, Queen Mary Teaching and Learning Conference and Draper’s Lecture, 21st January 2015 [Participant]
• Triantafylli, A., 2014 The Levers of Control Framework in shipping companies: A mixed methods approach, 13th ATINER Conference, Athens, 25th-28th May 2015 [Presenter]
• Triantafylli, A., 2014 The Levers of Control Framework in shipping companies: A mixed methods approach, 12th World Congress of Accounting Educators and Researchers, Florence, Italy, 13-15 November 2014 [Presenter]
• Triantafylli, A., 2014 Attendance in the 4th Brunel Business School Accounting Symposium, 20th June 2014 [Participant]
• Triantafylli, A., Attendance in the BAFA Accounting Education Annual Conference, Bristol, 14th-16th May 2014 [Participant]
• Triantafylli, A., Attendance in the ABS Teaching and Learning Conference, Aston Business School, Birmingham, 29th-30th April 2014 [Participant]
• Triantafylli, A., 2014, Queen Mary Teaching and Learning Conference and Draper’s Lecture, 15th January 2014 [Participant]
• Triantafylli, A. 2012. The Levers of Control Framework in shipping companies: A mixed methods approach, Proceedings of the 10th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting (IPA) conference,  Cardiff, 11-13 July 2012 [Presenter]
• Triantafylli, A. 2012. The Levers of Control Framework in shipping companies: A mixed methods approach, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Ljubljana, 9-13 May 2012 [Presenter]
• Triantafylli, A. 2010. Management Control Systems in the Services sector: The case of shipping. In 8th International Management Control Research Conference. London, 7-9 September 2010, U.K.[Presenter]
• Triantafylli A., 2010. The Levers of Control Framework: An Empirical Analysis of the Shipping Industry, (Parallel Session) Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Istanbul, 18-21 May 2010 [Presenter]
• Triantafylli A., 2009. Changes in Performance Measurement: The Greek Example, 5th Conference on Performance Measurement and Management Control, E.I.A.S.M, Nice, France, 23-25 September 2009  [Presenter]
• Triantafylli A., Ballas A., 2009. Management Control Systems and Performance: Evidence from the Greek Shipping Industry, 5th Conference on Performance Measurement and Management Control, E.I.A.S.M, Nice, France, 23-25 September 2009 [Presenter]
• Triantafylli A., 2009. Management Control Systems in the Greek Shipping Industry, Proceedings of the International Association of Maritime Economists (I.A.M.E) Conference, Copenhagen, 24-26 June 2009 [Presenter]
• Triantafylli A., 2009. Management Control Systems in the Greek Shipping Industry, (Parallel Session) Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Tampere, 12-15 May 2009 [Presenter]
• Triantafylli A., Ballas A., 2009. Control Systems and Performance Measures: An Empirical Analysis of the Greek Shipping Industry, (Research Fora) Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Tampere, 12-15 May 2009 [Presenter]
• Triantafylli A., 2008. Management Control Systems in the Greek Shipping Industry, Proceedings of the 7th H.F.A.A. (Hellenic Finance and Accounting Association), Chania, Crete, 12-13 December 2008 [Presenter]
• Ballas A., Triantafylli, A., 2008. Control Systems and Performance Measures: An Empirical Analysis of the Greek Shipping Industry, Proceedings of the 7th H.F.A.A. (Hellenic Finance and Accounting Association), Chania, Crete, 12-13 December 2008 [Presenter]
• Ballas, A., Triantafylli A., 2008.  Management Control Systems, Strategy and Performance: A Field study on the Greek Shipping Industry, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Business and Economics (ICABE), Thessaloniki, 02-04 October 2008 [Presenter]