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Dr Anila is a lectuter of Financial Acconting and Auditing in the Accounting department at Aston Business School. She joined Aston in September 2025 after she had an appointment with Turku chool of Economics in Finland as Post Doctoral researcher . She completed her PhD in 2022 from Aalto Business School in Finland. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Her main research interests concern audit quality and corporate governance particularly board of directors. Her research has been published in leading journals such as European Accounting Review. 

She is also a member of British Accounting and Finance Association and EAA scientific committee. She serves as a reviewer for Accounting Forum, International Journal of Accounting, Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies. 

• Audit quality 
• Individual auditor characterstics
• Corporate board characteristics
• Digitalization in auditing 
• Earnings management and financial reporting quality. 

• PhD (Auditing, Aalto Business School, Finland)
• MSc (Financial and management Accounting, Oulu Business School, Finland 

Advanced International Financial Reporting, Audit Governance and Company Law, Sustainability Reporting Assurance, Research Methods in Accounting

Current Teaching at Aston: 

• Advanced International Financial Reporting (BF3302)
• Audit, Governance and Company Law (BF2220)

Previous Teaching 

• Research Methods in Accounting 
• Sustainability Reporting Assurance 

• Turku University Foundation, 2025, 800 Euro.
• HSE Foundation, 2024, 10,000 Euro (for group project).
• Foundation for Economic Education, 2022, 30,000 Euro.
• OP Group Foundation, 2021, 25,000 Euro.
• HSE Foundation, 2021, 12,000 Euro.
• Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, 2020, 5000 Euro.
• Foundation for Economic Education, 2019, 12,000 Euro.
• Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, 2018, 12,000 Euro.
• Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, 2017, 11,000 Euro.
• HSE Foundation, 2017, 1800 Euro.
• HSE Foundation, 2017, 1200 Euro.
• Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, 2016, 10,830 Euro.
• HSE Foundation, 2017, 1881 Euro.
• Foundation for Economic Education, 2015, 10,830 Euro.
• Foundation for Economic Education, 2015, 1000 Euro.

Visiting researcher, Aalto University, 2024-present

Visiting researcher, Turku University, 2025-present

Visiting-doctoral researcher, Auckland University, New Zealand, Feb 2019-April 2019 

Member of Scientific Committee, European Accounting Association Annual Congress.

Member of British Accounting and Finance Association.

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)