Cardiff Business School

CBS Faculty

Qualifications:

• PhD Aberdeen University
• MSc International Accounting and Finance, London School of Economics
• BSc Warwick University
• Chartered Accountant (ICAEW)

Current Teaching Commitments:

• Financial Accounting (Undergraduate Year 3)
• International Accounting (Undergraduate Year 3)
• Accounting Theory and Practice (Undergraduate Year 3)
• MBA (Postgraduate)
• Introduction to Finance (Undergraduate Year 1)

Research Areas:

• Accounting history: professionalisation; race and gender issues; accountancy and Empire
• Financial Reporting for SMEs
• International Accounting

Representative Publications and Papers:

1. Sian, S. (2006). Inclusion, exclusion and control: The case of the Kenyan accounting professionalisation project. Accounting, Organisations and Society (31), p.295-322.
2. Sian, S. (2006). Reversing exclusion: The Africanisation of accountancy in Kenya, 1963-1970. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, p.1-42, forthcoming.
3. Sian, S. and Roberts, C. (2006). An investigation into the preparers, users and user information needs of micro-entity financial reports - Part 1 (pages 1-70). IFAC Consultation Paper, publication date December 2006.
4. Sian, S. - Operationalising closure in a colonial context: the Association of Accountants in East Africa, 1949-1963. Cardiff Accounting and Finance Working Paper A2006/2, Cardiff University.
5. Sian, S. – Patterns of prejudice: Social exclusion and racial demarcation in professional accountancy in Kenya. Winner of the Academy of Accounting Historians, Vangermeersch Manuscript Award, 2006.
6. Sian, S. and Roberts, C. (2003). AAT/United Nations Report: The applicability and usefulness of ISAR guidelines for level three enterprises (pages 1-72).
7. Contributor to UN/ISAR Research Report: The accounting needs of SME’s in developing countries. Presented at the United Nations ISAR Meeting, Geneva, in July 2000.
8. Sian, S. and Roberts, C. - An investigation into the preparers, users and user information needs of micro-entity financial reports - Part 2. IFAC Consultation Paper. Work in progress