Dr. Abdel Razaq Al Farah is an associate professor of accounting. He received his PhD degree in Accounting and Finance from Newcastle University, Australia, in 2007. He received his MBA degree with concentration on accounting from The University of Jordan, in 2001, and BA degree in accounting from Yarmouk University, in 1997. He is an outstanding lecturer, scholar, trainer and consultant in the area of Accounting. He lived, worked and was educated in Australia. He has over 8 years of teaching, research, and over 8 years of business consultancy, and work experience. Previously, he taught in Jordan as a full-time instructor at Al-Balqa’ Applied University, and as a part-time instructor at the University of Jordan, the German- Jordanian University, the World Islamic Sciences and Education University, and Yarmouk University. He also taught in Saudi Arabia- Al Riyadh at Al Yamamah University, Dar Al-Uloom University, and the Arab Open University.Professionally, he worked at the Amman Stock Exchange for almost eight years at different departments such as internal auditing, research and international relations, financial department, and surveillance department. He is a member of the Editorial Board at Journal of Empirical Studies, and Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review.
Research interests:
· Corporate Governance.
· Corporate Social Responsibility.
· Audit Expectation Gap.
· Voluntary Disclosure.
· Accounting Disclosure and Audit Technology.