Dr Lorenzo Neri

Overview

Biography

Lorenzo is a Lecturer in Accounting in the department of Management at Birbeck University. Before joining Birkbeck he was senior lecturer in Financial and Management Accounting at Greenwich University from 2014 to 2017. He had been working from 2011 to 2014 at KPMG Italy as tax and business consultant with a focus on financial reporting; corporate and VAT consultancy to national and multinational industrial groups; GAAP principles; IFRS principles; due diligence in M&A.

He holds a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Florence, Italy where he was research fellow and adjunct professor. In 2009 he was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York. In 2008 was a visiting scholar at the NYU Stern School of Business in New York.

In 2004, Lorenzo graduated with a Magna Summa Cum Laude (first class honours)  Business Administration Degree. Since 2008 he is also Certified Public Accountant and Auditor in Italy.

Research

Research interests

• Corporate governance
• Earnings management
• Financial reporting
• Risk reporting
• Voluntary disclosure

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions within Birkbeck:

1

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in undertaking research in any of my areas of research interest

Current doctoral researchers

• STEPHEN KATAYA

  Nature of supervision:

  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2019 onwards

Teaching

Module convenor of the following courses:

Introduction to Accounting (level 4). 15 credits module.

Financial Reporting (level 5). 30 credits module.

Management Accounting & Decision Making 1 (level 7). 15 credits module.

Teaching modules

• Financial Reporting (BUMN133S5)
• Principles of Accounting (BUMN186H7)

Publications