Andrew Stark

Andrew Stark is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester Alliance Manchester Business School, having held prior faculty positions at Yale School of Management (visiting), and the universities of Essex, Ulster, Maryland and Manchester. He joined the School on January 1, 1996 and retired on July 31, 2020. He was given the British Accounting and Finance Association Distinguished Academic Award in 2003 and was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2014. He is currently one of the senior editors of the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting and is a past joint-editor of The British Accounting Review. He is a past chairperson of the British Accounting and Finance Association. He was a member of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise Main Panel I and chairperson of Sub-Panel 35 (Accounting and Finance), having previously been on the Research Assessment Exercise Panels for Accounting and Finance in 1996 and 2001 and for Business and Management in 2001. He was chairperson of the Quality Assurance Agency Subject Benchmarking Group for accounting and finance for the most recent revision of the benchmarking statement, having chaired the original group for accounting.

Additional Information

Accounting and Corporate Valuation; the Relationship between Accounting Numbers and Stock Market Returns; the Disclosure of Non-Financial Information and Stock Market Consequences

Research interests

His current research interests include the estimation of accounting-based, cross-sectional, valuation models; accounting-based pricing anomalies; the stock market demand for, and consequences of, the disclosure of non-financial information; and empirical asset pricing. He has published numerous papers in these areas in refereed research journals.

Publications

• Advertising, Earnings Prediction and Market Value: An Analysis of Persistent UK Advertisers
  Shah, S. Z. A., Akbar, S., Ahmad, S. & Stark, A., Apr 2021, In: British Journal of Management. 32, 2, p. 283-305 23 p.

• On the Value Relevance of Information on Environmental and Social Activities and Performance – Some Evidence from the UK Stock Market
  Stark, A. & Bernardi, C., Aug 2018, In: Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. 37, 4, p. 282-299 18 p.

• Environmental, social and governance disclosure, integrated reporting, and the accuracy of analyst forecasts
  Stark, A. & Bernardi, C., 2018, In: British Accounting Review. 50, 1, p. 16-31 16 p.

• The value relevance and information content of cash and stock dividends in China
  Dedman, E., Jiang, W. & Stark, A. W., 2017, In: The European Journal of Finance. 23, (7–9):, p. 658–686 29 p.