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Profile

College / Department
Teaching areas
Financial Accounting
Research areas
Accounting Reporting Quality, Corporate Governance, Capital Structure
Education
PhD, International Business / Accounting, The University of Texas, El Paso, United States, 2008
MS, Economics / Finance, The University of Texas, El Paso, United States, 1998
BA, Accounting, The University of Texas, El Paso, United States, 1993
Professional experience
Professor, Accounting, American University of Sharjah, 2023 - Present
Associate Professor, Accounting, American University of Sharjah, 2017 - 2023
Assistant Professor, Accounting, American University of Sharjah, 2008 - 2017
Contact
+971 6 515 2574
Dr. Mohamed Salama
Professor in Accounting
PhD, The University of Texas, El Paso, United States
Feras Salama teaches courses in financial accounting (Principles of Accounting I and Intermediate Accounting II). Prior to his academic career, he worked for CPA firms (performing tax services and working on audit assignments) and publicly traded companies (performing financial analyses). In addition to teaching at AUS, Dr. Salama is a limited partner at an accounting firm in the United States. Dr. Feras is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed from the State of Texas.
Publications
Hajar El Mouttaqui And Feras Salama. Corporate Diversification and Financial Statement Readability
Sarah Elkelani And Feras Salama. The Effect of Auditor Characteristics on the Quality of Segment Disclosures of Diversified Firms
Anis Samet, Kimberly Gleason, Feras Salama And Xi Ye. How did banks react to SVB collapse?, Journal Of Multinational Financial Management
Hajar El Mouttaqui, Kimberly Gleason, Pornsit Jiraporn And Feras Salama. How Does Corporate Diversification Affect Earnings Management? A Path Analysis Approach, International Review Of Economics & Finance
Hajar El Mouttaqui And Feras Salama. Organizational Form and Audit Pricing
Ashraf Khallaf, Feras Salama, Musa Darayseh And Eid Alotaibi. Cross-sectional Determinants of Analyst Coverage for R&D Firms, Risks (issn 2227-9091)
Feras Salama And Taisier Zoubi. Other Comprehensive Income and the Cost of Debt Capital, Corporate Ownership And Control, March 2022
Anis Samet And Feras Slama. The impact of CEO inside debt on the coinsurance effect and excess value of diversification, International Review Of Economics And Finance
Feras Salama, Mahmud Hossain And Mitra Santanu. Narrative disclosures, firm life cycle, and audit fees, International Journal Of Auditing, 22 November 2019
Abed Abdallah, Wissam Abdallah And Feras Salama. The Market Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in the European Insurance Industry, The Geneva Papers On Risk And Insurance-issues And Practice, 2018
Mustafa Ciftci, Feras Salama And . Stickiness in costs and voluntary disclosures: evidence from management earnings forecasts, Journal Of Management Accounting Research
Mahmud Hossain, Feras Salama, Santanu Mitra And . Enterprise Risk Management and Analysts’ Forecasts: Evidence from Insurance Companies, Advances In Quantitative Analysis Of Finance And Accounting
Mahmud Hossain And Feras Salama. Culture, Bank Supervision, and Investor Protection: Evidence from Financial Crisis, Multidisciplinary Academic Conference, 2016
Mahmud Hossain, Ashraf Khallaf And Feras Salama. Capital Punishment And Financial Reporting Fraud: Implications For Secular Countries, The Journal Of Developing Areas, 8 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2017
Taisier Zoubi, Feras Salama, Mahmud Hossain And Yass Alkafaji. The Value Relevance of Components of Other Comprehensive Income When Net Income Is Disaggregated, Review Of Pacific Basin Financial Markets And Policie, 13 December 2016
Feras Salama And Karl Putnam. Accounting conservatism, capital structure, and global diversification, Pacific Accounting Review, 2015
Feras Salama And Taisier Zoubi. DOES EFFECTIVE MONITORING BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AFFECT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GLOBAL DIVERSIFICATION AND FINANCIAL LEVERAGE?, Corporate Ownership & Control, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2015
Feras Salama And Karl Putnam. The impact of corporate governance on the financial outcomes of global diversification, The International Journal Of Accounting, 2013
George White, Iii, Janice Joplin And Feras M Salama. Contracts and conflict resolution strategies in foreign ventures: a transaction cost perspective, International Journal Of Conflict Management, 2007
Conference Presentations
Organizational Form and Audit Pricing, 2024 American Accounting Association (aaa) Annual Meeting, August 2024
Corporate diversification and earnings management: A path analysis approach, 2024 European Financial Management Association (efma) Annual Meeting, June 2024
Organizational form and earnings management, 2024 European Accounting Association (eaa) Annual Congress, May 2024
Corporate diversification and earnings management: A path analysis approach, 2024 Uae Graduate Student Research Conference (gsrc), April 2024
Organizational Form and Audit Pricing, 2024 Uae Graduate Student Research Conference (gsrc), April 2024
The Effect of Auditor Characteristics on the Quality of Segment Disclosures of Diversified Firms, 2024 Uae Graduate Student Research Conference (gsrc), April 2024
The coinsurance effect of diversification and earnings management, Joint Conference Of The Bafa Corporate Finance And Asset Pricing Sig And The Northern Area Group, December 2023
Organizational Form and Audit Pricing, 2023 International Symposium On Audit Research (isar), June 2023
The coinsurance effect of diversification and earnings management, 2023 Financial Management Association (fma) European Conference, June 2023
The Impact of Corporate Diversification on Audit Pricing: Complexity versus Coinsurance, American Accounting Association - Annual Meeting 2022, 1 August 2022
Culture, Bank Supervision, and Investor Protection: Evidence from Financial Crisis, Icitee 2019 Bahrain: International Conference On Innovation, Technology, Enterprise And Entrepreneurship, 24 November 2019
Grants and sponsorships
Grant, FRG23-E-B94, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2023 - 31 May 2024
Awards and Honors
2023 Researcher of the Year, American University of Sharjah, May 2023