Rate My Professor Kristina Ashman

Mrs. Kristina Hosin-Ashman is a lecturer in the Finance and Accounting Unit of the Mona School of Business and Management at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, contributing to the Business & Economics faculty. She earned her Master of Science in Accounting with Distinction in November 2013 from UWI Mona, with a research focus on auditor perceptions of underlying factors affecting comparability in Jamaican financial statements prepared using IFRS. Her relevant coursework included Advanced Financial Reporting, Advanced Management Accounting, Advanced Auditing, Financial Markets and Investments, Accounting Research & Related Theory, and Management Information Systems. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Studies with Accounting specialization, First Class Honours, from UWI Mona in November 2011, and is an ACCA Affiliate since January 2016.

Her professional career at PricewaterhouseCoopers Jamaica spanned from 2013 to 2018, progressing from Trainee to Senior Associate in Risk Assurance Audit. As Senior Associate, she supervised audit project teams, facilitated client communications, liaised with component auditors, coordinated audit planning, reviewed staff performance, performed data analytics on large datasets for substantive testing, and maintained relationships with clients including Digicel Group Ltd and Seprod Group Ltd. She utilized ACL Analytics for journal entry testing, audited internal IT systems for security and access controls, obtained audit evidence for opinions, handled complex Excel data organization, and participated in SEC Form F-1 preparation for Digicel Group's NYSE IPO.

Since 2019, she has taught undergraduate courses at MSBM, including Financial Accounting I (ACCT2014) and Financial Accounting II (ACCT2015), updating outlines for ACCA alignment and IFRS emphasis, and Advanced Financial Accounting (ACCT3041) in 2019. Her research specializations are International Financial Reporting Standards, Small and Medium Size Enterprises, and Sustainability. A key publication is “The impact of strategy on performance in the face of a global crisis: Insight from the Miles and Snow typology” co-authored with Tolulope Bewaji in 2022. With over five years in external financial reporting, she integrates practical insights into her academic role.