Dr Chandres Tejura

Profile

Roles:

• Senior Lecturer in Accounting
• Member of the Department of Accounting and Financial Management

Biography:

Chandres is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting. Before joining QMUL, Chandres held the position of Senior Lecturer in Management Accounting and led two courses at London Metropolitan University, over a fourteen-year tenure.

At QMUL, he accomplished a part-time PhD, under the supervision of Professor McCartney, Dr Rai and Dr. Girardi, in 2022 His PhD area centres on Accounting and Ethics education and training. In 2002, he completed an MSc Financial Management at Middlesex University. He also holds a PGCE from The Institute of Education, University of London. He is on the Board of Directors at Drapers’ Multi Academy Trust and acts as Secretary with the South-East Area Group (affiliated to the British Accounting & Finance Association).

His research area is linked to his passion for Accounting and Ethics, more specifically, the role of Ethics in Accounting Education and Training. In 2015, with Dr. Girardi, he published a chapter in ‘Development- Orientated Corporate Social Responsibility: Volume 2’, and has since Chaired and presented at various conferences in the UK and abroad

Chandres is currently seeking PhD candidates to act as secondary Supervisor.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

• BUS106: Accounting for Business
• BUS216: Advanced Accounting for Business BUS022: Managerial Accounting

Postgraduate:

• Masters’ dissertation supervision- Accounting

In 2015 Chandres gained recognition as a lecturer by being awarded the Senior Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy.

Research

Public Engagement

Chandres is keen on public engagement and has presented at numerous conferences in the UK and abroad. He is a member of:

• The Academy of Management,
• Chartered Association of Business Schools
• British Accounting and Finance Association,
• Centre for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development,
• Net Impact,
• Association of International Accountants,
• Social Responsibility Review Network,
• Secretary of South East Area group (BAFA)
• On the Board of Director at Drapers’ MAT
• British Accounting Association and
• A regular attendee of Management Accounting Research Group and the British Academy of Management.

Outside work, he is a keen tennis player and enjoys travelling.

Scholarly Contributions

Centre and Group Membership:

• Affiliate Member of the Accounting & Accountability Research Group (AARG)

Pedagogic publications:

• Co-wrote CIMA paper 9: Management Accounting for Decision Making, Foulks Lynch Publications- 2002
• Drury, C.: Management and Cost Accounting. Technical reader and evaluator for 4th and 5th edition
• Horngren et al.: Management and Cost Accounting. Technical reader.
• Contributed to three chapters (editing and content analysis) in: ‘E-Business and E-Commerce Management’, Chaffey, D, 2004.
• ‘Divided we stand, United we fall: The inter-relationship between management accounting and marketing.’ American Academy of Accounting and Finance, conference paper, 2005, New Orleans.
• Managing, engaging and networking with students via Facebook.’ Published in Financial Management, CIMA, June, 2009
• Technical reader and editor of five chapters of Managerial Accounting by Balakrishnan, Sivaramakrishnan and Sprinkle, John Wiley, 2010.
• Technical reader and editor five chapters of Management Accounting by J. Burns et al, Jan 2013, McGraw-Hill.
• Contributed to entries in the ‘Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility’ S. Idowu, 2014, Springer.
• Chapter titled 'Accounting education and CSR in developing countries – the case of India.' This is a joint chapter written with Dr. Girardi. Book: 'Development-Oriented Corporate Social Responsibility: Locally-led Initiatives in Developing Economies.' Editors: Jamali, Karam and Blowfield. Greenleaf Publishing, 2015
• PhD titled: Accounting education/training is overly focused on profit/wealth at the expense of ethics and society. Research Question: What are the values being taught in accounting education/training from the perspective of final-year students (FYSs) and early career professionals (ECPs)? 2022
• Is there an overemphasis on profit and wealth maximisation in accounting education and training at the expense of ethics and society? Interview findings from UK early career professionals and final year business school students, under review with Social Responsibility Journal, 2023
• A Simple Strategy for Improving Student Attendance: Queen Mary University of London increases student attendance, interaction, and engagement through a Student of the Month initiative. AACSB, Insight, Dec. 2023
• In addition, numerous presentations and engagements at conferences in the UK and abroad, 2012-present