Professor Kevin McMeeking
Professor - Accounting

Summary

Kevin McMeeking is a Professor of Accounting at Brunel University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter. Prior to joining Brunel in September 2020, Kevin completed his undergraduate degree in Accounting and Financial Analysis at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, a PhD in Accounting at Lancaster University and researched and taught at the University of Exeter from 1998-2020. His research interests are interdisciplinary in nature and seek to use financial analysis, financial reporting and non financial reporting disclosures to help secure effective sustainable corporate governance. His work focuses on the governance processes, structures and systems that underpin corporate actions and accountability and the role that financial and non-financial disclosures play in capital markets. This work has been published in journals such as Accounting and Business Research, British Accounting Review, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, International Journal of Accounting etc.  

He is particularly interested in supervising PhD students in the fields of disclosure (financial and non financial reporting), corporate finance and assurance. Current PhD projects are broadreaching and include investigating the impact and value of performance audits, the simplification of the UK tax system and the effect of the EU emission trading scheme on corporate performance.

His teaching specialisms lie in financial accounting, financial statement analysis, and research methods and philosophies - at the undergraduate, postgraduate and executive levels.  

Kevin is also on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kev-mcmeeking-0044b710/ 

Qualifications

PhD Accounting (Lancaster); BA (Hons) Newcastle.

Responsibility

Kevin McMeeking is the Director of the Accounting and Auditing Research Group at Brunel University, London and member of the School Management Board - Research Executive Committee.