Rate My Professor Ahmed Abdalla

Dr. Ahmed Abdalla is a Senior Lecturer (tenured Assistant Professor) in the Department of Accounting at Monash University, Australia. He has been a research scholar at Columbia University in New York City and a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining Monash, he was on the faculty at the London School of Economics. Ahmed received a Ph.D. in Accounting and Finance from King’s College London and completed part of his doctoral training at the University of Cambridge. His main research interests are the macroeconomic consequences of firm-level accounting information and the valuation of equity.

Ahmed’s research has been published in top-tier journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Review of Accounting Studies. Notable publications include: "Classification shifting using income-decreasing special items: measurement and valuation issues" (Abdalla, A. M. & Clubb, C. D. B., 2024), Review of Accounting Studies; "From accounting to economics: the role of aggregate special items in gauging the state of the economy" (Abdalla, A. M. & Carabias, J. M., 2022), The Accounting Review; "The real-time macro content of corporate financial reports: a dynamic factor model approach" (Abdalla, A. M., Carabias, J. M. & Patatoukas, P. N., 2021), Journal of Monetary Economics. His research in macro-accounting has achieved the highest category of impact at Monash University and gained international recognition, including from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Abdalla has received Excellence in Reviewing Awards from the American Accounting Association Financial Accounting and Reporting Section in 2017 and 2022. He serves as a reviewer for leading journals including The Accounting Review, Management Science, and Review of Accounting Studies. At Monash, he is the Accounting Seminar Coordinator.