Jacob Agyemang

Dr Jacob Agyemang serves as Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Essex's Essex Business School, teaching core courses including Management Accounting II (BE113) and Advanced Management Accounting (BE131). He rejoined Essex in 2016 after prior academic appointments at Queen Mary University of London, University of East London, and University of Suffolk, alongside industry experience at British Petroleum and retail firms.

His academic credentials include:

• BBA in Accounting (Ghana)
• MA in Accounting and Financial Management (Hertfordshire)
• PhD in Accounting (Essex)
• PGCHEP and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Research critically examines management accounting systems in developing economies through interdisciplinary lenses:

• MACS contextualization in African public/private sectors
• Entrepreneurship-development-MACS interconnections
• Corporate governance in mergers and acquisitions

His work emphasizes socio-political dimensions of accounting practices in less developed countries, particularly Ghana.

Recent publications (2019-2025) reveal consistent focus on African contexts—analyzing board governance, pandemic-era fiscal resilience, IFRS adoption impacts, and investment efficiency. Common threads include institutional theory applications, critical perspectives on calculative practices, and analysis of how socio-political factors mediate accounting system effectiveness in emerging economies.

Dr Agyemang has supervised three PhD completions (2020-2024) on topics including Islamic banking control systems and clinician accounting literacy. Current research is funded by:

• University of Essex QR Impact Fund (2023): Professional directors' certification framework for Africa
• University of Manchester: Novel calculative practices in productivity measurement