PhD, CA
Chair in Accountancy
- About
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- Email Address
- azizul.islam@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272710
- Office Address
- School/Department
- Business School
Biography
Muhammad Azizul Islam (Aziz) is Chair in Accountancy and Professor in Sustainability Accounting & Transparency at the University of Aberdeen Business School. Aziz was a Haskayne Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Calgary (2016) and was a distinguished visiting professor at University of Gadjah Mada (2014) and University of Indonesia (2022). Aziz is a Chartered Accountant (CAANZ).
Aziz has been involved in academia for over 20 years, in which time he has held various academic leadership and administrative roles. During his early career, he received the School’s Award for Excellence in Administration and Support and the Dean’s Award for Team Teaching Excellence (2011).
Aziz is widely recognised internationally as a leading sustainability accounting researcher. He investigates some of the specific sustainability accounting and transparency issues including (but not limited to): corporate human rights measures, climate change accounting, social audit and corporate anti-bribery measures. As an ECR, he led a funded project on anti-bribery disclosure practices (CAANZ, 2012-2013). In early 2017, as Chief Investigator, he won a large industry grant on Social Compliance Audit Process in collaboration with CSIRO/Data61. In late 2017, in collaboration with UNSW and ANU, he won a grant from CPA Australia to investigate Regulatory Disclosures on Modern Slavery. Currently, Aziz is the recipient of two prestigious grants (UK AHRC and GCRF-Scottish Funding Council) for two projects on corporate accountability in relation to modern slavery.
Aziz’s research appears in internationally recognised journals (ABDC A*/A, ABS 4*/3*, FT's top 50). His research findings attract widespread media attention and influence policy changes. His research-based opinions appear in Conversation, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Prothom Alo, The Times-Raconteur, IFAC-Gateway, ICAEW feature articles.
Aziz is currently supervising four PhD and two post-doctoral candidates.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
BU5850:Accounting Profession
BU5574/75: Financial Analysis
BU5847/48: Studies in Accounting/Finance
AC4033: Accounting Theory
- Publications
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Corporate Commitment to Sustainability - Is it All Hot Air? An Australian Review of the Linkage between Executive Pay and Sustainable Performance
Australian Accounting Review, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 384-397Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRegulating for corporate human rights abuses: The emergence of corporate reporting on the ILO's human rights standards within the global garment manufacturing and retail industry
Critical Perspectives On Accounting, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 790-810Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2011.07.003
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Environmental incidents in a developing country and corporate environmental disclosures
Society and Business Review , pp. 229-248Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCorporate sustainability reporting of major commercial banks in line with GRI: Bangladesh evidence
Social Responsibility Journal, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 347-362Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMedia pressures and corporate disclosure of social responsibility performance information: A study of two global clothing and sports retail companies
Accounting and Business Research, pp. 131-148Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSocial Responsibility Disclosure Practices: Evidence from Bangladesh
Working Papers: Discussion PapersGrameen Bank's social performance disclosure: Responding to a negative assessment by Wall Street Journal in late 2001
Asian Review of Accounting, pp. 149-162Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMotivations for an organisation within a developing country to report social responsibility information
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, pp. 850-874Contributions to Journals: Articles