Kev McMeeking

Kevin McMeeking is a Professor of Accounting at Brunel University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter. Prior to joining Brunel, 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 to secure effective sustainable corporate governance. His teaching specialisms lie in financial accounting - at the undergraduate, postgraduate and executive levels.

Qualifications

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

Research area(s)

• Financial reporting: recognition, measurement and disclosure
• Non financial reporting, including sustainability accounting, e.g. Integrated reporting, circular economy, carbon accounting
• Corporate governance
• Corporate risk management
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Textual analysis
• Auditing and assurance

Research Interests

Kevin's overarching research agenda focusses on how best to secure effective and sustainable corporate governance. Professor McMeeking's research draws from the accounting, economics, psychology and sociology literatures to investigate issues such as disclosure, measurement, valuation and organisational change that are of relevance to academics, practitioners, corporations, regulators and the general public.

Membership and affiliation

• Visiting Professor - University of Exeter
• Member of European Accounting Association
• Member (previously Treasurer) of the British Accounting and Finance Association
• Member of Financial Reporting and Business Communication