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
Teaching at Undergraduate Level
AFM 211 Financial Accounting 1 (Summer Semester, 2007)
AFM 311 Advanced Financial Accounting (Semester 1, 2008, 2009)
AFM 101 Introduction to Financial Accounting (Summer Semester, 2008)
AFM 211 (TOP) Financial Accounting 1 (Semester 1, 2009)
Teaching at Post-graduate Level (GSB)
GSB 642 Corporate Accounting (Trimester 2, 2008)
GSB 641 Advanced Financial Accounting (Trimester 3, 2008, 2009)
GSB 642 (ISBT) Corporate Accounting (Semester 2, 2009)
GSB 641 (ISBT) Advanced Financial Accounting (Semester 2, 2009)
Research interests
Corporate governance, Corporate finance, Financial disclosure, Environmental reporting, Capital market investment, 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
“Financial Reporting Harmonization on Selected Items: Evidence from Australia, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom”. Jointly with Leopold Bayerlein. 32nd European Accounting Association Congress, May 2009, Tampere, Finland.
“Unidirectional Non-monotonic Relationship between Managerial Ownership and Firm Performance: The Case of family Firms in Bangladesh”. 1st International Symposium on Corporate Governance in Privately Owned Firms, April 2009, Sydney, Australia.
“Additional Evidence on Foreign Direct Investment, International Accounting Standards and Governance Interactions”. Jointly with Subba Reddy Yarram. 1st International Symposium on Corporate Governance in Privately Owned Firms, April 2009, Sydney, Australia.
“Leadership Role and Entrepreneurial ability of Number One Shareholder in Improving Corporate Performance under the Governance Structure of an Emerging Market Economy”. 9th International Business Research Conference, November 2008, Melbourne, Australia.
“Factors Influencing Corporate Ownership Structure in an Emerging Market: Some Issues on Entrepreneurship”. International Conference on Business and Information, July 2008, Seoul, 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. Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conference, July 2008, Sydney, Australia.
“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”. 7th International Business Research Conference, December 2007, Sydney, Australia.
“Ownership Concentration and Firm Performance Interactions in an Emerging Market Economy”. Jointly with Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan and AKM Waresul Karim. 19th Asian Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, November 2007. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
“The Effect of Ownership Concentration on Firm Value and Corporate Governance in Bangladesh Listed Firms”. Jointly with Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan and AKM Waresul Karim, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conference, July 2007, Gold Coast, Australia.
“A Mono-directional Perspective of Board Ownership and Performance Relation in Bangladesh” Jointly with Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan and AKM Waresul Karim. 18th Asian Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, October 2006, Maui, Hawaii, USA.
“Non-monotonic Relationship between Ownership Concentration and Performance in Bangladesh under Mono-directional Perspective”. Jointly with, Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan and AKM Waresul Karim. Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conference, July 2006, Wellington, New Zealand.
“A Mono-directional Perspective of Board Ownership and Performance Relation in Bangladesh”. Jointly with Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan and AKM Waresul Karim. 29th European Accounting Association Congress, March 2006, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
"Bi-directional Relationship between Ownership Concentration and Performance in Bangladesh under Simultaneous Equations Approach". Jointly with Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan and AKM Waresul Karim. 17th Asian-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, November 2005, Wellington, New Zealand.
“Corporate governance in Bangladesh: Evidence on the link between Board Ownership and Financial Performance”. Business and Government in Bangladesh in the 21st Century Conference, November 2005, Melbourne, Australia.
“A Simultaneous Equations Approach to Analysing the Relation between Ownership Structure and Performance in Bangladesh”, Jointly with Tony van Zijl and Keitha Dunstan AKM Waresul Karim. The Inaugural Asia-Pacific Corporate Governance Conference, August 2005, Hong Kong.
“A Simultaneous Equations Approach to Analysing the Relation between Ownership Structure and Performance in Bangladesh”, Jointly with Tony van Zijl and Keitha Dunstan AKM Waresul Karim. Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conference, July 2005, Melbourne, Australia.
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.