Dr Ali Sahin

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). 

With a career spanning senior credit roles in banking and a university lectureship in accounting and finance, Dr Ali Sahin has a rare blend of hands‑on financial analysis skills, financial accounting and financial management knowledge and lending expertise with analytical rigour and has the ability to communicate complex financial insights with clarity.

Over ten years in a major bank, Ali evaluated and structured thousands of SME, commercial, and large‑corporate credit proposals—holding individual lending authority and managing £..m in exposures with an exceptionally low ..% default rate. His work included 363 in‑depth financial analysis reports for major investment and development loans (£2.5m–£80m), where he modelled cash flows, assessed business plans, and formed clear, defensible credit opinions for senior approvers.

Today, as a Senior Lecturer at Westminster Business School, Ali teaches financial accounting, financial analysis, valuation, and corporate financial management topics. This role keeps Ali deeply engaged with quantitative methods, financial modelling, and the evolving dynamics of capital markets—while also allowing him to coach and develop future finance professionals.

Ali is at his best in environments where enthusiastic learners/students and colleagues flourish, and where disciplined judgement, structured analysis, and collaborative problem‑solving drive long‑term outcomes. Whether assessing new transactions, monitoring risk, or guiding teams, Ali focuses on delivering clear insights and well‑reasoned decisions that strengthen the decision quality and support business growth.

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

For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.