Mr Alastair Marais

Lecturer

Discipline

Managerial Accounting and Financial Management

maraisa@ukzn.ac.za

Pietermaritzburg

Commerce Building – Room 13

Biography

Mr Alastair Marais is a lecturer in the field of Managerial Accounting and Financial Management and a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA). He holds a Masters of Commerce degree. His research interests are in corporate governance, earnings management and accounting education.

Academic Qualifications

BCom (Accounting)
BCom Honours (Accounting)
MCom (Accounting)
Currently pursuing PhD

Professional Qualifications

CA(SA)

Professional Bodies and memberships

South African Institute of Chartered Accountings

Research Interests

Corporate governance
Corporate leadership
Earnings management
Accounting education

Publications

MARAIS, A., VERMAAK, C. AND SHEWELL, P. 2023. Predicting financial statement manipulation in South Africa: A comparison of the Beneish and Dechow models. Cogent Economics & Finance, 11(1): 2190215.
NYANDENI, A., MARAIS, A. AND MCCULLOUGH, K. (FORTHCOMING). Dividend announcements, share returns and trading volumes on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Afro-Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting, forthcoming.
MARAIS, A. AND JUGWANTH, T. 2021. Successful intervention or unnecessary hurdle: A newly introduced prerequisites impact on student performance in managerial accounting. Journal of African Education, 2(2): 87-107.
MARAIS, A. AND STRYDOM, B. 2018. Remuneration committee independence and CEO pay in the South African consumer and technology-related sectors. Southern African Journal of Accountability and Auditing Research, 20(2018): 43-55.
MASINGA, L., MYENDE, P., MARAIS, A., SINGH-PILLAY, A., KORTJASS, M., CHIRIKURE, T., AND MWELI, P. 2016. “Hear our voices”: A collective arts-based self-study of early career academics on our learning and growth in a research-intensive university. Educational Research for Social Change, 5(2): 117-135.
MARAIS, A., SONI, S. AND CHITAKUNYE, P. 2014. The ability of the Altman Z-score to predict the relative success of industrial companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Journal of Contemporary Management, 11(2014): 451-469.

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Mr Alastair Marais

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