Abeer Hassan

Background

About Abeer Hassan

Dr. Abeer Hassan is a Reader in Accounting. She joined West of Scotland University in December 2004 as a Lecturer in Accounting. Before that she had taught and researched accounting at Nottingham University and Keele University. Her teaching interests are in the following areas: Management Accounting, Financial Analysis, Financial Management, Social and Environmental Accounting, and Small and Medium Sizes (SMEs) with more focus on sources of finance available to them such as Private equity and Venture Capital. Before joining academia, Abeer worked as an auditor for 10 years at the National Authority of Auditing and Performance Evaluation. This evaluation involved investigating the companies’ financial accounts to make sure that they were prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in Egypt. She got her first degree in Accounting in 1986, awarded MSc in 1994 and PhD in 2003. She gained membership as Registered Practitioner at the Egyptian Society of Accountants and Auditors in Egypt in 2006. Additionally, she becomes a fellow in Higher Education Academy in 2009. Abeer has gained external funding from the Carnegie Trust and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland