Rate My Professor Nishant Agarwal

Nishant Agarwal is a Lecturer in Accounting at The University of Western Australia Business School, specifically within the Accounting and Finance department, aligning with the Business & Economics faculty. He earned his PhD from the Indian School of Business in 2018 and began his academic career as an Accounting Lecturer at UWA immediately following graduation, serving there for several years. His verified research interests, as listed on Google Scholar, encompass management accounting and financial accounting. Agarwal has made contributions to understanding corporate cost behaviors, financial disclosure effects, forecasting dynamics, and investor psychology in sustainable finance.

Key publications by Agarwal include 'Cost Stickiness and Stock Price Delay' published in the European Accounting Review in 2022; 'Growth Opportunities, Information Asymmetry, and Cost of Equity Capital' also in the European Accounting Review in 2021; 'Data breach notification laws and the cost of private debt' in the British Accounting Review in 2024; 'Analyst forecast accuracy during COVID-19' in the Asian Review of Accounting in 2023; 'Linking ESG-Investing Consciousness, Behavioral Biases, and Risk-Perception: Scale Validation with Specifics of Indian Retail Investors' in the European Journal of Business Science and Technology in 2023; and 'Institutional Theory and Hybrid Accounting and Control Systems' in the Journal of Management Accounting Research in 2024. His research has been prominently featured as lead author in UWA news articles, including 'How customer cost decisions shape supplier strategies' (March 2024), which draws on supplier-customer relationship data, and 'Data breach laws drive up private debt costs but being cyber-smart can help' (November 2024). Agarwal has contributed to academic service by co-supervising PhD students and coordinating the UWA Philip Brown Research Seminar. His professional email is publicly listed as nishant.agarwal@uwa.edu.au in multiple peer-reviewed publications.