About me
Dr Ali Sahin is a Senior Lecturer in accounting at Westminster Business School, and a Fellow of UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Ali holds PhD in Finance (Bayes Business School, City St George University London), MRes in Finance (Bayes Business School), MSc in Accounting and Finance (Essex Business School), BSc (Istanbul University).
Ali has also more than ten years of professional experience in banking sector as well as accountancy in the capacity of Senior Manager and Financial Analyst; In his professional career, Ali is specialised in financial analysis & valuation and corporate & Business lending (corporate, loans, business loans, project finance, foreign finance, working capital finance, property loans) with a delegated lending authority. He now shares his expertise with students.
Teaching
Ali teaches Accounting and finance subjects including Financial Accounting, Management accounting, Financial analysis, Asset Valuation, Corporate financial management.
In recent years, Ali has been voted twice as the best teacher by students, the personal tutor of the year in 2025 and received several staff appreciation awards with a performance of highly regarded student satisfaction rate.
Ali also lead the MSC Global Finance PG course and ACCA course more than four years
Research
Ali's research interest lies within the 'market based accounting research' category with special interest on the association between accounting information and stock returns, the effects of intangible investments on firm value (e.g., R&D, advertisement), valuation, stock market anomalies (e.g., B/P effect), analysts’ forecasts (target prices, earnings forecasts), accounting conservatism, earnings management, contractual role of accounting information and the effects of regulation.
Publication
Sahin, A. and Raonic, I. (2020), "Do analysts understand accruals’ persistence? Evidence revisited", Journal of Applied Accounting Research, Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 38-59. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAAR-07-2018-0103
Working Papers
‘Economic Consequences of Earnings and Analysts’ Forecasts Management for Multi-Segment Firms’ Working paper with Ivana Raonic;
‘Does unconditional accounting conservatism provide a rational explanation to B/P effect in stock returns?’ Working paper with Ivana Raonic;
Conferences/Events Ali has presented his works
The Institute of Accounting, Control and Auditing (ACA) Research Symposium St. Gallen, Switzerland,
The Accounting Workshop in the University of Lisbon, Portugal
The Annual Congress of European Accounting Association (EAA) Valencia, Spain
The F&A research seminar, Westminster Business School, London,
The Accounting and Regulation Conference by EIASM, Siena, Italy
The Talent Workshop of European Accounting Association (EAA), Madrid, Spain
The Annual Congress of European Accounting Association (EAA) Maastricht, Netherlands
The Accounting Workshop in Bocconi University, Milan
The Research Days, Cass Business School, London
Accounting research Conference, London
Publications
For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.