Dr Ali Sahin

Dr Ali Sahin


Dr Ali Sahin is a Senior Lecturer in accounting at Westminster Business School, and a Fellow of UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA). 

Ali holds PhD in Finance (Bayes Business School, City St George University London), MRes in Finance (Bayes Business School), MSc in Accounting and Finance (Essex Business School), BSc (Istanbul University). 

Ali has also more than ten years of professional experience in banking sector as well as accountancy in the capacity of Senior Manager and Financial Analyst; In his professional career, Ali is specialised in financial analysis & valuation and corporate & Business lending (corporate, loans, business loans, project finance, foreign finance, working capital finance, property loans) with a delegated lending authority. He now shares his expertise with students.


Ali's research interest lies within the 'market based accounting research' category with special interest on the association between accounting information and stock returns, the effects of intangible investments on firm value (e.g., R&D, advertisement), valuation, stock market anomalies (e.g., B/P effect), analysts’ forecasts (target prices, earnings forecasts), accounting conservatism, earnings management, contractual role of accounting information and the effects of regulation.

Publication 

Sahin, A. and Raonic, I. (2020), "Do analysts understand accruals’ persistence? Evidence revisited", Journal of Applied Accounting Research, Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 38-59. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAAR-07-2018-0103

Working Papers 

‘Economic Consequences of Earnings and Analysts’ Forecasts Management for Multi-Segment Firms’ Working paper with Ivana Raonic; 

‘Does unconditional accounting conservatism provide a rational explanation to B/P effect in stock returns?’ Working paper with Ivana Raonic; 

Conferences/Events Ali has presented his works

The Institute of Accounting, Control and Auditing (ACA) Research Symposium St. Gallen, Switzerland,

The Accounting Workshop in the University of Lisbon, Portugal

The Annual Congress of European Accounting Association (EAA) Valencia, Spain

The F&A research seminar, Westminster Business School, London,

The Accounting and Regulation Conference by EIASM, Siena, Italy

The Talent Workshop of European Accounting Association (EAA), Madrid, Spain 

The Annual Congress of European Accounting Association (EAA) Maastricht, Netherlands

 The Accounting Workshop in Bocconi University, Milan

The Research Days, Cass Business School, London

Accounting research Conference, London


In brief

Research areas

market based accounting research