Email: b.xue4@aston.ac.uk

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Bai XUE is a Lecturer in Accounting in the Accounting Department at Aston Business School, Aston University. She joined the Aston Business School since June 2020, after 6 years appointment with Southampton Business School.

She completed PhD in Accounting and Corporate Governance from School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, and holds an MSc in Management from University of Sheffield and BSc in Biotechnology in Beijing Forestry University, China.

She teaches mainly financial accounting, sustainability accounting and management accounting at both under- and post-graduate levels.  Her research interests include corporate governance in developed countries and emerging markets and non-profit sectors; audit market, audit quality and audit pricing; financial reporting in small and medium sized companies; and environmental performance and disclosure and the impact of CSR on corporate risk and performance.

Bai’s research interests include

• Corporate governance in UK and China: board independence, the role of independent directors, directors’ busyness and remuneration, audit committee effectiveness, corporate governance in non-profit sector;
• Auditing: audit market and competition, audit quality and pricing, auditor selection;
• Financial reporting in small and medium-sized companies;
• Environmental performance and disclosure, CSR and corporate risk and performance.

Bai welcomes PhD applications in the above areas.

Financial Accounting, Sustainability Accounting, Finance.

Undergraduate Modules:

BF1120 Introductory Accounting for Business; 

BF2224 Applied Management Accounting;

Postgraduate Modules:

BFM205 Business Finance

Aston Online:

BFK423 Sustainability Accounting and Accountability