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Introduction

Josephine (Josie) McLaren is Professor of Accounting and Finance and Research and Impact Lead in the Accounting and Financial Management Subject Group. She is a former Head of the Accounting and Finance subject group (2017-2021), Deputy Head of the Accounting and Finance subject group (2016-17) and Degree Programme Director for the BSc Accounting and Finance programme (2007-2016). Her research interests lie at the interface of Accounting and Finance, with a focus on using accounting information for accountability, valuation and benchmarking. She is particularly interested in issues around sustainability and the SDGs. 

Josie is dedicated to research that is of relevance to the academy, practitioners and the accounting profession. She has received funding from CIMA (a leading professional body), as well as University and School funding, including from the 缅北禁地 Institute of Social Renewal and 缅北禁地 University Business School to undertake a project entitled 'The Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare: Business, Regulatory and Reputation Risk?'. This project involved case study investigation of large scale supermarkets, restaurants and food producers that are subject to the Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare. Journal articles published in Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and Critical Perspectives on Accounting are based on this work. Current projects include Investor Benchmarks (supported by the NUBS Impact Fund, with Prof Louise Crawford and Dr Bella Liu) and Reporting and Benchmarking of Food Loss and Waste (supporting by Faculty Research Fund, companion project with Prof Lisa Jack and Dr Roza Sagitova, University of Portsmouth).

Josie completed her PhD in 2012 and in 2016 she published a paper in The British Accounting Review (BAR) based on her PhD work on the Economic Valued Added Management Control System. For this paper Josie was awarded the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) prize for the most outstanding accounting paper published in The British Accounting Review in 2016. She has over 10 publications on EVA and she has presented papers at conferences in the UK and abroad. Josie is also interested in the performance of state-owned and regulated enterprises in New Zealand, the UK and China. Interest in New Zealand companies arises from her EVA work. UK interests include mergers and acquisitions analysis and cost of capital determination, where she has collaborated on projects with external parties, including the Regulatory Policy Institute, Oxford. Her finance-focussed research relates to banking in MENA countries and the trading behaviour of investors in times of structural or regulatory change (publications in Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2015; Journal of International Financial Institutions, Markets and Monday, 2022; Emerging Markets Review, 2023; Research in International Business and Finance, 2024). In 2017 she organized a research symposium entitled 'China in the Global Economy', held at 缅北禁地.  

Josie's teaching interests lie in the areas of finance, financial management and microeconomics and current teaching includes ACC3006 International Financial Management/ACC3020 The Financial Manager and NBS8005 Corporate Strategy and Valuation. She has previously served as lecturer/module leader on several postgraduate modules including NBS8001 International Finance and Capital Markets, NBS8002 Techniques for Data Analysis, NBS8003 Financial Information Analysis, NBS8004 Dissertation, NBS8235 Financial Planning and Investment. Previous undergraduate teaching includes Professional Skills for Accounting and Finance (stage 1), Quantitative Methods (stage 1), Financial Control (stage 2), Income Measurement (stage 2), Analysis and Interpretation of Company Accounts (stage 2), Financial Accounting (stage 3), Accounting, Organization and Society (stage 3), and Management Accounting (stage 3).

Prior to being Professor, Josie was a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance. As Degree Programme Director she was instrumental in the introduction of the N401 BSc (Honours) Accounting and Finance with Business Placement and N403 BSc (Honours) Accounting and Finance with Study Abroad programmes in 缅北禁地 and the BSc (Honours) Accounting and Finance programmes in London. 

Josie is passionate about leadership and mentoring - she currently serves on the ICAEW Research Advisory Board (2023 - present) and is a former member of the ICAEW Academia and Education Advisory Group (2020-2023). She has completed the 缅北禁地/Durham University Academic Leaders' Programme (2019) and the University Women's Coaching and Mentoring Programme (2016). 

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Roles and Responsibilities

Research and Impact Lead, Accounting and Financial Management Subject Group (2024 - present)

Head, Accounting and Finance Subject Group (November 2017-August 2021)

Deputy Head, Accounting and Finance Subject Group (2016-November 2017)

Degree Programme Director, N400/N401/N403 BSc Honours Accounting and Finance (缅北禁地) (2007-2016) 

Chair, Board of Examiners (BA (Honours) Accounting and Finance and Graduate Diploma in Finance, Accounting and Business) (2011-2015)

Qualifications

PhD (缅北禁地) 2012

B.A. (Honours) Accounting and Financial Analysis 1990

Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy (2019)

Memberships

British Accounting Association

European Accounting Association 

Esteem Indicators

British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) prize for the most outstanding accounting paper published in The British Accounting Review in 2016

ICEAW Research Advisory Board Member (2023-present)

ICAEW Academia and Education Advisory Group Member (2020-2023)

External Examining Positions 

University of Dundee (2024 - present) - External Examiner

University of Portsmouth (2009-2015) - External Examiner, postgraduate programmes  

University of Huddersfield (2008-2011) - External Examiner, undergraduate programmes

University of Sheffield (2023) - PhD examiner

University of Huddersfield (2014) - PhD examiner

Research Interests

My current research interests centre on accountability, valuation and investor benchmarks. Under this theme I have a number of live projects centring on food companies and the food industry, including: management and reporting of farm animal welfare in global food companies in response to the Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare; investors' response to corporate accountability benchmarks; and accounting food loss and waste in the UK food sector. Projects link to the UN SDGs and are supported by School impact funds and University Faculty/Institutes. Work on farm animal welfare has led to publications in Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (2020) and Critical Perspectives on Accounting (2022). 

I am also interested in public sector valuation, reporting and accountability, with a current project examining University reporting and decision-making through Covid-19 and the transition to the UN SDGs. This research has stemmed from earlier work on Economic Value Added (EVA) as a performance measure in public sector and listed companies. I have extensive experience through engagement with EVA users in New Zealand - where I conducted research in major EVA companies. In 2012 I completed my PhD in this area and I have published my EVA work in The British Accounting Review (winning the British Accounting and Finance Association Prize for the most outstanding Accounting paper published in The British Accounting Review in 2016, in recognition for the paper's important contribution to accounting research), as well as presenting papers at conferences in the UK and abroad. 

I am an associate editor for the journal Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal and in 2024 I was the lead Guest Editor for a special issue on Accounting, Reporting and Practices in Public Sector Organisations. I regularly act as a reviewer for leading journals in accounting and finance.

I am willing to consider PhD applications from potential students in the broad areas of sustainability and accountability, particularly involving the food sector. Please get in touch with me if you would like to discuss your proposal.

Funding

2 grants from CIMA (£11,000) looking at EVA in New Zealand companies

缅北禁地 Institute for Social Renewal (£760) 

University Teaching Committee Fund: Transition of International Students (£7,500)

Faculty Research Fund (£3990)

缅北禁地 Business School Impact Fund (£2186)

缅北禁地 Business School Research Fund (£1296)

Undergraduate Teaching

ACC3006 International Financial Management

ACC3020 The Financial Manager

Postgraduate Teaching

NBS8005 Corporate Strategy and Valuation

Past Teaching

ACC1009 Quantitative Business Methods

ACC1012 Professional Skills for Accounting and Finance

ACC2003 Financial Control

ACC2005 Intermediate Financial Accounting (formerly Income Measurement - Module Leader)

ACC2007 Corporate Finance

ACC2060 Business Finance 

ACC3001 Financial Accounting (Module Leader)

ACC3002 Management Accounting (Module Leader)

ACC3016 Accounting, Organization and Society

ACC3017 Derivative Markets (Module Leader)

NBS8001 International Finance and Capital Markets

NBS8002 Techniques for Data Analysis

NBS8003 Financial Information Analysis (Module Leader)

NBS8235 Financial Planning and Investment (Module Leader)

• Articles

  • Elnahass M, Alharbi R, Mohamed T, McLaren J. . Research in International Business and Finance 2024, 71, 102444.
  • Rhee Y, McLaren J, Jang D, Liu LYJ. . Journal of Industrial Studies 2024, 48(2), 49-89.
  • Elnahass M, Alharbi R, Mohamed T, McLaren J. . Emerging Markets Review 2023, 57, 101071.
  • Nguyen OTK, LIU LYJ, Haslam J, McLaren J. . Production Planning & Control 2023, 34(5), 423-441.
  • Alharbi R, Elnahass M, McLaren J. . Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money 2022, 80, 101611.
  • McLaren J, Appleyard T. . Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2022, 84, 102310.
  • McLaren J, Appleyard T. . Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal 2020, 33(1), 32-58.
  • McLaren J, Appleyard T, Mitchell F. . The British Accounting Review 2016, 48(3), 341-358.
  • Zeng Y, McLaren JA. . Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 2015, 45(1), 137-173.
  • McLaren JA. . CIMA Research Executive Summaries Series 2005, 1(5).
  • McLaren JA. . Pacific Accounting Review 2004, 16(1), 1-31.
  • McLaren JA. . Financial Management 2003, (July/August), 18-19.
  • McLaren JA. . International Accountant 2001, 11.
  • McLaren J. Just How Good is EVA?. Chartered Accountants Journal of New Zealand 2000, 79(4), 57-62.
  • McLaren J. . Management Accounting: Magazine for Chartered Management Accountants 1999, 77(4), 30-32.
  • McLaren J. Economic Value Added: A Means of Creating Sustainable Value?. Chartered Accountants' Journal of New Zealand, April 1998, pp. 59-63 1998.
  • Appleyard AR, McLaren JA, Yarrow GK, Keyworth T. Effects of the proposed merger between Bass and Carlsberg-Tetley: an assessment of capital market expectations. Report submitted to the Monompolies and Mergers Commission, 27pp 1996.
  • McLaren J, AR Appleyard and GK Yarrow. The Consequences of Diversification by Public and Private Monopolies. EBPR, Oxford University, 1994 1994.

• Book Chapter

  • McLaren J, Appleyard T. . In: Siqueira A; Neesham C; Landrum N; Kanashiro P, ed. Sustainability Management: A Systems Approach. London: SAGE Publications Inc, 2025.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Rhee Y, Liu LYJ, McLaren J. . In: 42nd Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association. 2019, Paphos, Cyrpus: European Accounting Association.
  • Liu LYJ, Rhee Y, McLaren J. . In: BAFA Annual Conference 2018. 2018, London: British Accounting & Finance Association.
  • McLaren J, Appleyard T. . In: British Accounting and Finance Association Financial Reporting and Business Communication Conference. 2017, Durham: British Accounting and Finance Association.
  • Zeng Y, McLaren J, Cai N. . In: 4th European Conference on Banking and the Economy (ECOBATE 2016). 2016, University of Winchester, UK: Association for Research on Banking and the Economy.
  • McLaren JA, Appleyard AR. . In: Investigating Animals and Organizations. 2014, Worcester.
  • Liu LYJ, Sumkaew N, McLaren J. . In: British Accounting & Finance Association (BAFA) Annual Conference. 2014, London School of Economics, London, UK.
  • McLaren J, Appleyard A, Mitchell F. Learning and Adapting: Economic Value Added in three New Zealand companies. In: European Accounting Association. 2013, Paris, France. Submitted.
  • McLaren J, Appleyard A, Mitchell F. . In: 49th BAFA (British Accounting and Finance Association) Annual Conference. 2013, 缅北禁地 upon Tyne.
  • Liu LYJ, Sumkaew N, McLaren J. . In: Management Accounting Research Group Conference. 2013, Aston Business School, Birmingham, UK.
  • Sumkaew N, Liu L, McLaren J. . In: World Business Research Conference. 2012, Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Liu LYJ, McLaren JA. . In: International Conference on Teaching and Learning (ICTL 2009). 2009, Kuching, Malaysia.
  • McLaren J, Liu L. . In: UTLC Transition fund conference. 2009.
  • McLaren JA, Appleyard T. . In: International Conference on the Review of Results of Management Accounting Research. 2009, Shanghai, China.

• Editorial

  • McLaren J, Denedo M, Nakpodia F. . Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal 2025, 16(4), 975-983.

• Online Publication

  • McLaren JA. . London: CIMA, 2005. Available at: .