Joseph Y. Abekah
JOSEPH Y. ABEKAH, Professor and Associate Dean, joined the Faculty of Business Administration in 1991 and is a member of the Accounting/MIS area. He teaches Administration, Managerial Accounting, and Intermediate Accounting in the BBA program and Introductory Accounting and Managerial Accounting in the MBA program. He received the UNBF MBA Society's Professor Recognition Award in 2001.
Dr. Abekah was appointed to the position of Associate Dean, International Programs, in July 2011. He is responsible for the oversight and coordination of the Faculty's educational offerings in Egypt, Trinidad and Tobago, and Ukraine. His mandate includes staffing and maintenance of the academic standards of those programs, as well as ensurng that the programs are conducted in accordance with the Faculty's policies. He also supervises student exchange relationships with other universities.
His academic interest areas are financial and managerial accounting, securities markets, and the effects of accounting regulations. His articles have appeared in the Journal of the Academy of Business Administration, the Journal of African Finance and Economic Development, the Journal of Comparative International Management, and the Journal of Financial Management Analysis.
Learning and Pedagogical Scholarship
Conference Proceedings and Presentations:
Learning Styles and Business Learning Objects. Twenty-Ninth STLHE Annual Conference, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 2009.
Computer Simulations for Applying Business Concepts. Kaleidoscope, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 2007.
Books and Book Chapters:
Direct Investment and Economic Growth of Selected African and South American Countries. Alfred K. Eccles, ed. Miami, Florida: International Trade and Finance Association, 2007.
Discipline-Based Scholarship
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
Foreign Investment and Economic Growth of Africa. Atlantic Economic Journal, December (2007), 117-118.
Conference Presentations and Proceedings
Z Score Busters: Evidence from the Toronto Stock Exchange. Conference on Trends in Global Business, New Haven, Connecticut, 2008.
Contact Information
Joseph Y. Abekah
Professor, Accounting
Associate Dean, International Programs
Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Office Phone: (506) 458-7341
Office Location: 339 Tilley Hall
