Dr Omar Al Farooque
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Business Economics and Public Policy
Qualifications
B. Com (Hons), M. Com (Dhaka), M. Ec (Osaka), PhD (Wellington
Contact
| Email: | ofarooqu@une.edu.au |
| Room: | W42 410 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3920 (or +61 2 6773 3920 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3148 |
Affiliations
Member, NIA Australia;Member, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ);
Member, International Association for Accounting Education and Research.
Reviewer, International Journal of Corporate Governance, Geneva, Switzerland.
Reviewer, Journal of Higher Education Research & Development, New South Wales, Australia.
Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Information, Information Technology, and Organizations, Santa Rosa, California, USA.
Fast-track Review Board Member, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Oxford, UK and Malden, MA, USA.
Areas of Teaching
AFM 211 Financial Accounting 1 (Summer 2007)AFM 311 Advanced Financial Accounting (2008)
GSB 642 Corporate Accounting (2008)
GSB 641 Advanced Financial Accounting (2008)
Research interests
Corporate governance, Corporate finance, Financial disclosure and reporting, Investment, Capital market, Entrepreneurship, Economic aspects of corporate sector and financial services.
Publications
Journal Articles
Omar Al Farooque, Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan and AKM Waresul karim (2007). “Corporate Governance in Bangladesh: Link between Board Ownership and Financial Performance”. ‘Corporate Governance: An International Review’, Vol. 15 (6), PP 1453-1468.
Omar Al Farooque, Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan and AKM Waresul karim (2007). “Ownership Structure and Corporate Performance: Evidence from Bangladesh”. ‘Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics (APJAE)’, Vol. 14 (2), PP. 127-150.
Md. Kamal Uddin, Omar Al Farooque and Md. Rafiqul Islam (2000). “FDI, Endogenous Growth and Policy Adjustment: A Review of Some Theories and Models”. ‘Journal of Business Studies’, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Vol. 19, No.1, (ISBN-984-31-1397-2), pp.133-144.
Omar Al Farooque and Mohammad Jamal Uddin (2000). “Entrepreneurship as a Factor for Economic Development: A Study on Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL)”. ‘Thoughts on Economics’, Journal of Islamic Economics Research Bureau, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Vol. 10, No. 1 & 2, (ISSN 0256-8586), pp. 49-63.
Omar Al Farooque and Md. Abdul Hakim Bhuiyan (1999). “Improving Competitiveness: Roles and Skills of ‘Cost and Management Accountants’ in the 21st Century”. ‘Journal of Business Studies’, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Vol. 20, No.2, pp.95-108.
Omar Al Farooque (1999). “Economic Aspects of Japanese ‘Financial Keiretsu’ (Industrial/Corporate Group): A Review”. ‘D.U. Journal of Marketing’, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.81-101.
Omar Al Farooque, Mohammad Jamal Uddin and Md. Abu Sina (1998). “Patterns of Apartment Business in Dhaka City”. ‘Journal of Islamic University Studies (Part - C)’, Khustia, Bangladesh, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp.191-206.
Omar Al Farooque (1998). “The Economic Role of the Japanese ‘Main Bank’ System”. ‘Journal of Business Studies’, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Vol. 19, No.2, pp.175-202.
Omar Al Farooque, Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury and Md. Zakir Hossain Akhand (1998). “Deposit Mobilization Under the Islamic Banking System: The Case of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited”. ‘Finance and Banking’, Journal of the Department of Finance and Banking, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Vol. 4, No. 1 & 2, pp.113-125.
Conference Papers
“Factors Influencing Corporate Ownership Structure in an Emerging Market: Some Issues on Entrepreneurship”. The International Conference on Business and Information, July 2008, Seoul, South Korea.
"Co-deterministic Relationship between Concentration of Ownership and Corporate Value: Evidence from an Emerging Market". Jointly with Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan and AKM Waresul Karim. 31st European Accounting Association Congress, April 2008, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
“Determinants of Ownership Structure in an Emerging Market Economy”, The 7 International Business Research Conference, Sydney, December 2007.
Omar Al Farooque, Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan and Wares karim (2007). “Ownership Concentration and Firm Performance interactions in an Emerging Market Economy”. The XIX Asian Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, Kuala Lumpur, November 2007.
Omar Al Farooque, Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan and Wares karim (2007). “The Effect of Ownership Concentration on Firm Value and Corporate Governance in Bangladesh Listed Firms”. AFAANZ Annual Conference, Gold Coast, July 2007.
Omar Al Farooque, Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan and Wares karim (2006). “A Mono-directional Perspective of Board Ownership and Performance Relation in Bangladesh”. The XVIII Asian Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, Hawaii, October 2006 and The 29th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Dublin, Ireland, March 2006.
Omar Al Farooque, Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan and Wares karim (2006). “Non-Monotonic Relationship between Ownership Concentration and Performance in Bangladesh under Mono-directional Perspective”. AFAANZ Annual Conference, Wellington, July 2006.
Omar Al Farooque (2005). “Corporate governance in Bangladesh: Evidence on the link between Board Ownership and Financial Performance”. The Business and Government in Bangladesh in the 21st Century Conference, Melbourne, November 2005.
Omar Al Farooque, Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan and Wares karim (2005). “Bi-directional Relationship between Ownership Concentration and Performance in Bangladesh under Simultaneous Equations Approach”. The XVII Asian Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, Wellington, November 2005.
Omar Al Farooque, Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan and Wares karim (2005). “A Simultaneous Equations Approach to Analysing the Relation between Ownership Structure and Performance in Bangladesh”. AFAANZ Annual Conference, Melbourne, July 2005 and The Inaugural Asia-Pacific Corporate Governance Conference, Hong Kong, August 2005.
Working Paper
Farooque, O. A., T. van Zijl, K. Dunstan and AKM W. Karim (2005). A Simultaneous Equations Approach to Analysing the Relation between Ownership Structure and Performance in Bangladesh. Working Paper No. 35, Centre for Accounting, Governance and Taxation Research, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.