CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRICULUM VITAE
SERAINA C. ANAGNOSTOPOULOU
ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS-76 PATISSION ST 10434 ATHENS GREECE
TEL +30 210 8203413 E-MAIL [email protected]
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH
August 3rd 1979, Athens, Greece
EDUCATION
Oct. 2003-March 2007: Ph.D. - City University, Cass Business School, London, UK
 Ph.D. Thesis Title: ‘Accounting Valuation Issues on R&D’
Oct. 2001-June 2002: MSc - University of Reading, ICMA Centre, UK
 MSc in International Securities, Investment and Banking
Oct. 1997-June 2001: BA - Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
 BA in Economics
Sept. 1991-June 1997: Greek-French School ‘Saint Joseph’, Athens, Greece
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CFA Charterholder
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
July 2013-present: Assistant Professor of Accounting, Department of Accounting and Finance,
School of Business, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Sept. 2009-June 2013: Lecturer in Accounting (tenure-track), Department of Accounting and
Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Oct. 2009-Feb. 2013: External scientific collaborator, International Hellenic University (IHU),
Thessaloniki, Greece- supervision/marking of MSc and MBA dissertations
Oct. 2007-May 2012: Member of the teaching faculty of the Professional Seminar Series
organised by the Centre for Executive Training (KEK) of the Athens University of Economics
and Business
March 2007-August 2009: Adjunct lecturer in Accounting, Athens University of Economics
and Business, Greece
Sept. 2005-June 2006: Teaching Assistant, Cass Business School, City University, London, UK
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Accounting quality and earnings management
Market-based accounting research, financial statements analysis
Economic consequences of the adoption of International Financial Reporting
Standards (IFRS)
Intangible assets/R&D expenses and firm valuation
Financial analyst earnings’ forecasts
Financial management in private (unlisted) vs. public (listed) firms
Μergers and Acquisitions (M&As)
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PUBLICATIONS IN (REFEREED) ACADEMIC JOURNALS
1. Anagnostopoulou, S.C., and Tsekrekos, A.E. (2014) ‘Accounting Quality, Information
Risk and Implied Volatility around Earnings Announcements’, Journal of International
Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, in press, DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2014.10.006.
2. Anagnostopoulou, S.C., and Tsekrekos, A.E. (2014) ‘Earnings Management in Firms
Seeking to Be Acquired’, The British Accounting Review, in press, DOI:
10.1016/j.bar.2014.07.001.
3. Ferentinou, A.C., and Anagnostopoulou, SC. (2014) ‘Accrual-based and Real Earnings
Management Before and After IFRS Adoption: The Case of Greece’, Journal of Applied
Accounting Research, forthcoming.
4. Anagnostopoulou, S.C., and Tsekrekos, A.E. (2013) ‘Do Firms that Wish to Be Acquired
Manage their Earnings? Evidence from Major European Countries’, International
Review of Financial Analysis, Volume 30, pp. 57-68, DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2013.06.002.
5. Anagnostopoulou, S.C. (2013) ‘Cash Holdings: Determining Factors and Impact on
Future Operating Performance for Listed vs. Unlisted Firms’, Review of Pacific Basin
Financial Markets and Policies, Volume 16 (2), DOI: 10.1142/S0219091513500136.
6. Anagnostopoulou, S.C. (2014) ‘Analyst Forecast Dispersion, R&D and Stock Returns:
Evidence from the UK’, Advances in Financial Planning and Forecasting, forthcoming,
Volume 6 (Editor: Cheng F. Lee).
7. Anagnostopoulou, S.C. (2012) ‘Working Capital Management and Firm Listing Status’,
Multinational Finance Journal, Volume 16 (3/4), pp. 1-41.
8. Anagnostopoulou, S.C. (2010) ‘Does the Capitalization of Development Costs Improve
Analyst Forecast Accuracy?: Evidence from the UK’, Journal of International Financial
Management and Accounting, Volume 21 (1), pp. 62-83, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467646X.2009.01036.x.
9. Anagnostopoulou, S.C., and Levis, M. (2008) ‘R&D and Performance Persistence:
Evidence from the UK’, International Journal of Accounting, Volume 43 (3), pp. 293320, DOI: 10.1016/j.intacc.2008.06.004.
10. Anagnostopoulou, S.C. (2008) ‘R&D Expenses and Firm Valuation: A Literature
Review’, International Journal of Accounting and Information Management, Volume 16
(1), pp. 5-24, DOI: 10.1108/18347640810887735.
BOOK REVIEWS (INVITED)
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Book review for ‘Mergers and Acquisitions: The Critical Role of Stakeholders’, by
Helén Anderson, Virpi Havila and Fredrik Nilsson, Routledge, 2012, ISBN: 978-0-41553652-3, published in the quarterly Newsletter of the European Accounting Association,
#43, Issue 3/2013, pp. 25-26, http://www.eaa-online.org/userfiles/file/EAA-NewsletterIssue43-2013.pdf.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES
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'The Impact of Research and Development Expenses on Analyst Forecast
Revisions', 2014, to appear in volume in honour of Prof. Dimitrios Papadopoulos,
University of Macedonia, Department of Accounting and Finance, Thessaloniki,
Greece.
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PRESENTATIONS AT (REFEREED) CONFERENCES WITH PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS
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Paper Title: ‘Accounting Quality, Information Risk and Implied Volatility around Earnings
Announcements’- with Andrianos Tsekrekos:
- 2nd International Conference on Futures and other Derivative Markets (ICFDM) 2013,
Renmin University, Beijing, China 11/2013 (presented by co-author)
- European Accounting Association 2014 Conference, Tallinn, Estonia
(also accepted for presentation at the British Accounting Association 2014 Conference,
London, UK)
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Paper Title: ‘Accrual-Based and Real Earnings Management before and after IFRS
Adoption: The Case of Greece’ - with Aikaterini Ferentinou: 12th Annual Conference of the
Hellenic Accounting and Finance Association (HFAA) 2013, University of Macedonia,
Thessaloniki, Greece (presented by co-author)
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Paper Title: ‘Earnings Management in Firms Seeking to Be Acquired’ - with Andrianos
Tsekrekos:
- European Financial Management Association 2013 Conference, Reading, UK
- European Accounting Association 2012 Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Multinational Finance Society 2011 Conference, Rome, Italy (presented by co-author)
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Paper Title: ‘The Effect of Financial Leverage on Real and Accrual-based Earnings
Management’ - with Andrianos Tsekrekos:
- European Accounting Association 2013 Conference, Paris, France
- American Accounting Association 2012 Conference, Washington D.C., USA
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Paper Title: ‘Tax Incentives as Determinants of Accounting for and Spending on R&D: An
International Analysis’ - with Apostolos Ballas:
- European Accounting Association 2013 Conference, Paris, France (presented by co-author)
- 4th International Conference in Accounting and Finance 2012, Corfu, Greece (presented by
co-author)
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Paper Title: ‘Cash Holdings: Determining Factors and Impact on Future Operating
Performance for Listed vs. Unlisted Firms’, 20th Annual Conference on Pacific Basin
Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Management 2012, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
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Paper Title: ‘Analyst Forecast Dispersion, R&D and Stock Returns: Evidence from the UK’:
- European Accounting Association 2011 Conference, Rome, Italy (presenter and discussant)
- Multinational Finance Society 2010 Conference, Barcelona, Spain (presenter and
discussant)
- European Financial Management Association 2009 Conference, Milan, Italy (presenter
and discussant)
(also accepted for presentation at the Financial Management Association 2009 European
Conference, Turin, Italy, and the VIII Workshop on Empirical Research in Financial
Accounting, Seville, Spain, 2011)
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Paper Title: ‘Does R&D Influence Revisions in Earnings’ Forecasts as it Does with Forecast
Errors?: Evidence from the UK’:
- European Accounting Association 2008 Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- European Financial Management Association 2008 Conference, Athens, Greece
(presenter and discussant)
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Paper Title: ‘R&D and Performance Persistence: Evidence from the UK’ - with Mario Levis: - 5th Annual Conference of the Hellenic Finance and Accounting Association (HFAA) 2006,
University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- European Financial Management Association 2006 Conference, Madrid, Spain,
- British Accounting Association 2006 Conference, Portsmouth, UK
- European Accounting Association 2006 Conference, Dublin, Ireland
- 1st EIASM Workshop on Intangibles 2005, Ferrara, Italy
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Paper Title: ‘R&D, Dispersion of Forecasted Earnings and Subsequent Returns: Evidence
from the UK’ - with Mario Levis, European Accounting Association 2007 Conference,
Lisbon, Portugal
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Paper Title: ‘R&D, Volatility and Rate of Growth of Forecasted versus Realised Earnings:
Evidence from the UK’ - with Mario Levis, 1st International Conference in Accounting and
Finance 2006, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
CONFEENCE PRESENTATIONS (WITHOUT PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS)
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‘R&D and Performance Persistence: Evidence from the UK’, European Accounting
Association Doctoral Colloquium, Gullholmen, Sweden, 05/2005
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British Accounting Association Doctoral Colloquium, Edinburgh, UK, 03/2005
SCHOOL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
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2010-present: Editorial Board, International Journal of Accounting
Reviewer (ad hoc - 2008-present): International Journal of Accounting, European Journal
of Finance, Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, Applied
Financial Economics, International Journal of Accounting and Information Management,
Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Managerial Finance, Asia Pacific Management
Review, Corporate Governance, American Accounting Association 2012 Meeting, Hellenic
Finance and Accounting Association (HFAA) 2013 and 2014 Meetings
Principal Contact Person with the CFA Institute, with regard to the participation of the MSc
Programme in Accounting and Finance of the Athens University of Economics and
Business in the University Recognition Programme organised by the CFA Institute, 2014present
Faculty advisor - along with Associate Professor D. Giamouridis - of the university student
team which competed in the CFA Institute Global Investment Research Challenge in 2011,
2012, and 2013 (winners of the national competition in 2011 and 2013, and competitors in
the EMEA Region Challenge organised in Madrid, Spain, March 2011, and in London,
UK, April 2013)
Member of the Steering Committee of the MSc in Accounting and Finance of the Athens
University of Economics and Business, 2011-2014
Representative of the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University Senate,
2010-2011
Member of the Department of Accounting and Finance website committee, 2010- present
Co-organiser of the Department of Accounting and Finance Academic Seminar Series,
2009-2010
Ad hoc supervisor of students participating in the student work experience programme
(Athens University of Economics and Business), 2010-present (>30 students)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Postgraduate:
 Cost Accounting, MSc in Accounting and Finance (full-time) course, Athens University of
Economics and Business, 2014
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Management Accounting, MSc in Accounting and Finance (part-time) course, 2007-2014,
and MSc in Accounting and Finance (full-time) course, 2011-2014
Business Analysis and Valuation, MSc in Accounting and Finance (full-time) course,
Athens University of Economics and Business, 2008-2010
Dissertation guidance seminar, delivered to MSc in Accounting and Finance (with a
specialisation in Accounting) full-time and part-time students, 2014-today
Executive Seminar Series on IFRS organised by the Centre for Executive Training,
Athens University of Economics and Business, 2007-2012 (IAS 2, IAS 24, IAS 33, IAS
38, IAS 40 and IFRS 6)
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Supervision (>35 theses)-marking (> 60 theses) of MSc dissertations, MSc in Accounting
and Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2007-2014
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Supervision (3 theses)-marking (20 theses) of MSc dissertations, MSc in Banking and
Finance, MSc in Management, and EMBA, International Hellenic University,
Thessaloniki, 2009-2013
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Marking of MSc dissertations (8 theses), MSc Executive Programme in Applied
Economics and Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2009-2012
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Employed in the marking of exam scripts of university graduates in the civil servant
recruitment examinations organised by the Greek Recruitment Board (ASEP), March-April
2007
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Excel I & II, Cass Business School MSc Courses Induction module, tutor, September 2005
Undergraduate:
 Cost and Management Accounting, Erasmus Programme course, Athens University of
Economics and Business, 2014
 Management Accounting, BSc in Accounting and Finance 3rd year course, Athens
University of Economics and Business, 2011-2014
 Financial Accounting, BSc in International and European Economic Studies 1st year
course, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2010-2014
 Accounting, BSc in Informatics 1st year undergraduate course, Athens University of
Economics and Business, 2008-2014
 Introduction to Computerised Accounting and Finance, BSc in Statistics 2nd year
course, Athens University of Economics and Business , 2010
 Cost Accounting, BSc in Accounting and Finance 2nd year course, Athens University of
Economics and Business, 2010
 Introduction to Accounting, BSc in International and European Economic Studies 1st year
course, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2007-2009
 Financial Accounting for Decision Makers, Erasmus Programme course, Athens
University of Economics and Business, 2008
 Principles of Financial Accounting, BSc in Accounting and Finance 1st year course,
Athens University of Economics and Business, 2007-2008
 Principles of Financial Accounting, BSc in Economics 1st year undergraduate course,
Athens University of Economics and Business, 2008
 Introduction to Financial and Management Accounting, Cass Business School 1st year
undergraduate course, teaching assistant, terms 1 & 2 - academic year 2005-2006 (module
leader: Professor Dylan Thomas)
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Principles of Finance, Cass Business School 2nd year undergraduate course, teaching
assistant, term 1 - academic year 2005-2006 (module leader: Professor Ian Marsh)
PHD COMMITTEES
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Roumpelaki, Nektaria, ‘Implications of Earnings Management (Provisional)’, Department of
Accounting and Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business, in progress
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(supervisor, 2013-today).
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Apostolidi, Maria, ‘The Macroeconomic Nature of Aggregate Accounting Profitability’,
Department of Accounting and Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business,
April 2014 (examiner).
WORK EXPERIENCE
 October 2006-April 2007: Alpha Bank, Athens, Greece
Financial Reporting Analyst
- Worked within the Financial Reporting Division (Banking supervision, Accounting and
Management Information Systems - MIS sub-divisions) as a financial analyst
 August 2002-September 2003: Alpha Bank, Athens, Greece
Corporate Treasury Sales Dealer
- Worked in the Dealing Room, within the Treasury Division, giving information on
the markets and negotiating repo, depo, loan, FX spot and forward rates with the bank’s big
corporate customers
LANGUAGES
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Greek: Native
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English: Cambridge Proficiency - 06/1993
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French: Sorbonne II and DALF - 05/1996
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Spanish: Diploma Superior de Español - 05/2004
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German: Zentrale Mittelstufenprüfung - 08/2000
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Italian: CELI 4-Università di Perugia - 06/2000
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
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CFA Charterholder since September 2009
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Awarded the certificate of the Client Advisor by the Athens Derivatives Exchange (ADEX),
January 2003 (Result: 98%)
ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP S
2003-2006 Awarded three-year doctoral bursary by the City University - Cass Business
School
1997
Awarded scholarship by the Greek state for coming 6th in the University access
Exams
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OTHER INFORMATION
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Passed the examination and awarded the Introductory Certificate in Teaching in Higher
Education by the City University Education and Training Centre in November 2005
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Member of the European Accounting Association and the CFA Institute
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GMAT score of 690 (Percentile 92-11/2000)
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