Professor Shahed Imam

Professor Shahed Imam

The Department of Accounting
Chair in Accounting

Contact details

Email
i.shahed@bham.ac.uk
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Address
Birmingham Business School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Shahed completed PhD on analysts' use of accounting information from Judge Business School, the University of Cambridge. He joined Birmingham Business School from University of Warwick in 2022.

Shahed’s main research interest is in analysts' decision-making process. His research has been published in leading accounting journals including Accounting and Business Research, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review and The Accounting Review. He is an editorial board member of Accounting and Business Research journal and one of the editors of the current edition of Wiley Encyclopedia of Management (Accounting). His research was funded by Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, and ICAS-EFRAG. His paper on financial analysts in Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal received highly commended paper recognition.

Qualifications

  • PhD (University of Cambridge)
  • MPhil (University of Cambridge)

Biography

Shahed completed PhD on analysts' use of accounting information from Judge Business School, the University of Cambridge. He joined Birmingham Business School from University of Warwick in 2022.

Shahed’s main research interest is in analysts' decision-making process. His research has been published in leading accounting journals including Accounting and Business Research, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review and The Accounting Review. He is an editorial board member of Accounting and Business Research journal and one of the editors of the current edition of Wiley Encyclopedia of Management (Accounting). His research was funded by Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, and ICAS-EFRAG. His paper on financial analysts in Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal received highly commended paper recognition.

Teaching

  • LM Fundamental Analysis
  • LH Financial Statement Analysis (Singapore)

Research

Research interests

  • Financial Analyst and Capital Market
  • Equity Valuation
  • Textual Analysis
  • Climate Risk Disclosure

Publications

  • Cascino, S., Clatworthy, M., García Osma, B., Gassen, J., and Imam, S. (2021). The usefulness of financial accounting information: Evidence from the field. 96 (6): 73-102. The Accounting Review. Draft available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3008083
  • Spence, C., Aleksanyan, M., Millo, Y., Imam, S., and Abhayawansa, S. (2019). Earning the ‘write to speak’: sell-side analysts and their struggle to be heard. Contemporary Accounting Research. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1911-3846.12496
  • Bhardwaj, A. and Imam, S. (2019). The tone and readability of the media during the financial crisis: Evidence from pre-IPO media coverage. International Review of Financial Analysis. 63, p. 40-48.
  • Imam, S and Spence, C. (2016). Context, not predictions: A field study of financial analysts, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 29 (2), p. 226-247. (Mary Parker Follett Award: Highly commended AAAJ Awards for Excellence - 2017: http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/authors/literati/awards.htm?year=2017)
  • Cascino, S., Clatworthy, M., Garcia, B., Gassen, J., Imam, S. and Jeanjean, T. (2016). Professional Investors and the Decision Usefulness of Financial Reporting, March, ICAS/EFRAG. (Funded by ICAS/EFRAG)
  • Cascino, S., Clatworthy, M., Garcia, B., Gassen, J., Imam, S. and Jeanjean, T. (2014). Who uses financial reports and for what purposes: Evidence from capital providers, Accounting in Europe, 11 (2), p. 185-209. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2389752
  • Cascino, S., Clatworthy, M., Garcia, B., Gassen, J., Imam, S. and Jeanjean, T. (2013). The use of information by capital providers, ICAS-EFRAG monograph. (Funded by ICAS/EFRAG)
  • Imam, S, Chan, J and Shah, Z, (2013). Equity valuation models and target price accuracy, International Review of Financial Analysis, p. 9-19.
  • Barker, R and Imam, S, (2008). Analysts' perceptions of earnings quality, Accounting and Business Research, 38 (4), p. 313-329.
  • Imam, S, Barker, R and Clubb, C, (2008). The use of valuation models by UK Investment analysts, European Accounting Review, 17 (3), p. 503-535.

  • Other publications:

  • Kheng, L.T., Imam, S., and Babu, M . (2019). Analysts and financial crisis. Strategic Change.
  • Cascino, S., Clatworthy, M., García Osma, B., Gassen, J, Imam, S., and Jeanjean, T. (2016). ‘Different strokes for different objectives’. CA Magazine, February.
  • Barker, R and Imam, S, (2014). Earnings and dividend information: Survey evidence, Wiley Encyclopedia (Accounting).
  • Cascino, S., Clatworthy, M., García Osma, B., Gassen, J., Imam, S., and Jeanjean, T. (2013). ‘Different perspectives’. CA Magazine, vol 117.
  • Imam, S, Barker, R and Clubb, C. (2010). 'Equity valuation models and analysts', Professional Investor, CFA.
  • Imam, S. (2005). ‘A survey of European investor relations‘. Book review, The British Accounting Review.
  • Barker, R. and Imam, S. (2005). Earnings, Dividends, and Valuation, Blackwell Encyclopaedia in Management-Accounting p. 158-161.
  • Imam, S. (2004). 'Dividend Yield and Price-Earnings ratio: A further look', The International Journal of Accounting and Business Society, 12 (1), 60-67.
  • Imam, S., Ahmed, Z., Khan, S. (2001). ‘Association of audit delay and audit firm’s international link’. Managerial Auditing Journal, Vol-16 (3).
  • Imam, S. (2000). ‘Corporate social performance reporting in Bangladesh’. Managerial Auditing Journal, Vol-15 (3).
  • Imam, S. (1999). ‘Environmental reporting in Bangladesh’, Social and Environmental Accounting Journal, CSEAR, University of Glasgow.

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