John McCallig

Background

About John McCallig

John McCallig is an Assistant Professor in the Accountancy Subject Area. He graduated with a PhD in Accountancy from the University of Lancaster in 2003. John worked as an Auditor with EY in Dublin and is a member of both Chartered Accountants Ireland and CIMA. He was director of the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School MAcc Programme from 2007-2010. He was head of the Accountancy Subject Area from 2019 to 2020 and is now Director of the MSc in Accounting and Financial Management. Teaching John teaches Financial Reporting and Financial Statement Analysis. John introduced SAP to the accounting curriculum at UCD in 2013. In 2016, he developed a module on credit-risk in aviation finance for the UCD MSc in Aviation Finance. He has been an external examiner at several universities. In 2017, John received a College of Business Excellence in Teaching Award. Research John’s research agenda concerns the relationship between stock market valuation, accounting numbers and non-financial information. He uses statistical methods to investigate this relationship. John has investigated how blockchain technology and advanced cryptography can be combined to design accounting systems that would enable transparent access to verifiable accounting information. John has also investigated the effect of using technology, such as short videos, on student learning. He is also interested in learning analytics and how student performance statistics can best be visualized to enable better faculty decision making. He has published in the European Journal of Marketing, Marketing Letters, the Corporate Finance Review and the Irish Accounting Review. Consultancy John has been a director of a UCITS, IFSC fund and has completed consultancy assignments for a number of Irish and international clients. He has taught at the Copenhagen Business School, the IMI and has designed programmes for organization such as ICTU.