Dr Suki Sian
Senior Lecturer in Accounting
Roles: MSc Programme Director - Accounting & Finance
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8570
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 3615
Location: Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building, FB 4.12
Email: s.sian@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
Suki's research interests include accounting history, professionalisation and imperialism. She is the joint-editor of “Accountancy and Empire: The Legacy of British Professional Organisation” (2010). She also has an interest in globalization and international accounting and has led international research projects on financial reporting by small businesses on behalf of both IFAC and UNCTAD.Publications:
Sian, S. with Kotb, A. and Roberts, C (2012). E-Business audit: Advisory jurisdiction or occupational invasion? Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Forthcoming.
Sian, S. (2011). Operationalising closure in a colonial context: The Association of Accountants in East Africa, 1949-1963. Accounting, Organisations and Society, 36 (6): 363-381.
Sian, S. with Poullaos, C. (2010). Accountancy and Empire: The British Legacy of Professional Organization, Routledge (New Works in Accounting History v. 10), Oxon, UK. ISBN 978-0-415-45771-2.
Sian, S. and Roberts, C. (2009). UK small owner-managed businesses: Accounting and financial reporting needs. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 16(2): 289-305.
Sian, S. and Roberts, C. (2008). Micro-Entity Financial Reporting: Some Empirical Evidence on the Perspectives of Preparers and Users. IFAC Consultation Paper, January 2008, ISBN 978-1-934779-02-6.
Sian, S. and Roberts, C. (2008). Micro-Entity Financial Reporting: Some Empirical Evidence on the Perspectives of Preparers and Users. IFAC Consultation Paper, January 2008, ISBN 978-1-934779-02-6.
Sian, S. (2008). Review: The Accounting Profession in British West Africa by Chibuike Uche. Accounting Business and Financial History, 18 (3): 380-383.
Sian, S. (2007). Patterns of prejudice: Social exclusion and racial demarcation in professional accountancy in Kenya. Accounting Historians Journal, (34: 2) pp. 1-42.
Sian, S. (2007). Reversing exclusion: The Africanisation of accountancy in Kenya, 1963-1970. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, (19), p.831-872.
Sian, S. and Roberts, C. (2006). Micro-entity financial reporting: Perspectives of preparers and users. IFAC Consultation Paper, December 2006, ISBN 1-931949-63-8.
Sian, S. (2006). Inclusion, exclusion and control: The case of the Kenyan accounting professionalisation project. Accounting, Organisations and Society (31), p.295-322.
Grants, contracts, awards and external publications:
Sian, S. (2006). Patterns of prejudice: Social exclusion and racial demarcation in professional accountancy in Kenya. Winner of the Academy of Accounting Historians, Vangermeersch Manuscript Award, 2006.
Postgraduate teaching:
PhD 2nd Supervisor:
Mrs. Anne Gich-Ogweno - Women in Accountancy