Dr Lutfa Ferdous is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Accounting at the University of Leicester. She received her Ph.D. in Accounting from La Trobe University in Australia. In before she completed her MPhil in Accounting and Auditing and PGCHE (Higher Education Teaching and Practice) from the University of Sydney Australia and also holds MBA in Finance. Her research interests cover several research streams in financial accounting including capital market, analysts, disclosure, earnings management, auditing, and the links of financial accounting with sustainability, climate risk, CSR disclosures, performance and assurance, corporate governance, and executive power. Dr Lutfa has experience working in both academia and industry. She is a professionally qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand (CAANZ) member and ACA, ICAEW, UK. Her teaching experience includes financial accounting, financial statement analysis, contemporary accounting issues, corporate governance, corporate financial reporting and analysis, research dissertations in accounting and finance, and auditing at both Undergraduate, Postgraduate and MBA levels. Prior to that, she worked at Charles Sturt University, La Trobe University, The University of Sydney, and the University of South Australia. She is an accomplished accounting and finance professional, equipped with 12+ years of experience working locally and internationally in fast-paced, dynamic enterprise industries, including Bank, NGOs, Research Institute, and Big4 audit firms.