Professor Yannis Tsalavoutas
- Professor (Accounting & Finance)
telephone:
(0)141 330 6093
email:
Ioannis.Tsalavoutas@glasgow.ac.uk
Adam Smith Business School, 2 Discovery Place, Glasgow, G11 6EY
Biography
After completing his undergraduate studies at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens (BSc in Business Administration), Yannis undertook the MBA Programme at the University of Stirling with specialisation in Corporate Finance. In November 2009, he completed his PhD in Accounting at the University of Edinburgh. Yannis' work experience includes positions as an accountant (in Greece) and as a financial accounting and reporting analyst at Company Reporting Ltd in Edinburgh. Prior to joining the University of Glasgow in January 2015, Yannis was a Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Stirling.
In parallel to his current post at the University of Glasgow, Yannis is:
- a member of the ACCA Global Forum for Corporate Reporting
- a member of the ICAS Corporate & Financial Reporting Panel
- a member of the UKEB Academic Advisory Group
- founder and leader of the Adam Smith Observatory of Corporate Reporting Practices
- Ad hoc Associate Editor for The British Accounting Review (since Jan 2022)
- Associate Editor for Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation (since May 2024)
Research interests
Yannis is a member of the School's Accounting research cluster.
His research has been published in many international journals including, Accounting and Business Research, British Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Area of expertise:
- Financial accounting and reporting (with an appeal to practitioners, investors and the academic community). In particular, his research focuses on investigating companies' reporting practices under International Financial Reporting Standards across different jurisdictions, along with any capital market consequences that may arise from divergence in practice.
Grants
- ACCA, June, 2024 (lead applicant; with D.Baboukardos, D.Dionysiou, R.Slack and F.Tsoligkas): £12,240
- ACCA, May, 2024 (lead applicant; with D.Baboukardos, S.Evangelos, and F.Tsoligkas): £6,000
- University of Economics Katowice (Poland), March, 2024 (sole applicant): £12,200
- University of Economics Katowice (Poland), May 2023 (sole applicant): £12,194
- ACCA, October, 2022 (lead applicant; with D.Dionysiou, R.Slack and F.Tsoligkas): £10,080
- ACCA, June, 2022 (lead applicant; with D.Baboukardos, E.Seretis, R.Slack and F.Tsoligkas): £7,740
- ICAS, May, 2022 (lead applicant; with D.Baboukardos and E.Seretis): £7,000
- ACCA, November, 2020 (lead applicant; with D.Dionysiou, R.Slack and F.Tsoligkas): £7,200
- ACCA, July, 2020 (lead applicant; with A.Constantatos, D.Baboukardos, D.Dionysiou, R.Slack and F.Tsoligkas): £9,600
- ICAS, December, 2019 (with M.Aleksanyan, S.Abhayawansa, and K.Lee): £17,200
- ACCA, February, 2017 (lead applicant; with F.Mazzi, R.Slack and F.Tsoligkas): £19,700
- ICAS, December 2016 (with C.Paisey and N.Paisey): £16,891
- Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, November 2011 (sole applicant): £2,200
- ACCA, May 2011 (lead applicant; with P.André and D.Dionysiou): £15,970
- ICAS, May 2011 (lead applicant; with P.André and D.Dionysiou): £1,980
- Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, July 2010 (sole applicant): £2,120
- The Royal Society of Edinburgh, March 2010 (sole applicant): £2,130
- ICAS, January 2010 (lead applicant; with D.Dionysiou): £750
- Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, November 2009 (sole applicant): £950
- ICAS, May 2006 (with L.Evans): £750
Supervision
Yannis would be interested in supervising doctoral students who would be willing to work in the following broad areas of research:
- value relevance of accounting information;
- determinants and consequences of mandatory disclosure requirements;
- enforcement of international accounting regulation;
- corporate governance;
- the effects of professional and social networks on investment decision making.
Current doctoral supervision
- Farhod, Ahmed
The Impact of Financial Reporting Quality on Risk Composition, Stock Returns and Trading Volume - Gong, Xiaohan
IPO book building to the spillover effect of IPO on on the cost of debt - Li, Yaohua
Three essays on financial analysts - Rehm, Eva Sophia
Analysis of recent developments towards the harmonisation of sustainability reporting and its impact on companies’ CSR practices and sustainability disclosures
PhD completions (post PhD employer)
- Khadija Almaghrabi (King Abdul-Aziz University)
- Zaneta Azuma (Coventry University)
- Anna-Fani Constantatos (Deree College/American College of Greece)
- Mohamed Esmail Elmaghrabi (Damietta University)
- Hany Mohamed Aziz Elzahar (Arab Open University)
- Sotirios Kokkinos (Bayes Business School)
- Douglas Gunn (Barclays)
- Evangelos Seretis (University of Glasgow)
- Angelos Synapis (Coventry University)
Teaching
Yannis is currently teaching Advanced Financial Accounting at undergraduate level. He also teaches International Financial Accounting for Multi-National Companies at postgraduate level.
Past teaching experience
Postgraduate level
- Financial Reporting
- Topics in International Accounting
- Accounting and Finance
- Financial Analysis
- Accounting and Finance for MBA programmes.
Undergraduate level
- Financial Reporting and Financial and Management Accounting.
Additional information
Past Editorships
- Accounting Editor for Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting (Jan 2022 - Dec 2023)
- Section Editor for Accounting and Finance for European Management Journal (June 2017 – Feb 2024)
Editorial Board Memberships
- Accounting in Europe (since Jan 2014)
- Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation (Apr 2020 - Jan 2021)
- The British Accounting Review (since Feb 2021)