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Name	Professor Michael Jones
Job title	Professor of Financial Reporting
Department	Department of Accounting and Finance University of Bristol
Contact details	This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations Office. To help us deal with your request, please mention the Directory of Experts when contacting the Public Relations Office. work+44 (0)117 331 8092 email: public-relations@bristol.ac.uk
Qualifications	MA(Oxon.), ACA(ICEAW)
Professional details
Keywords	accounting annual report content financial communication financial graphs impression management, fraud & creative accounting measuring research quality, bibliometrics social & environmental reporting and assurance, particularly accounting for biodiversity financial reporting; international financial accounting; accounting theory, scandals and standards
Areas of expertise	I am a Professor of Financial Reporting and the Head of the Department of Accounting and Finance. I am interested in accounting history, annual report content, financial graphs and financial communication. I also do research on impression management, fraud and creative accounting. Other areas of interest are measuring research quality and bibliometrics. Finally, I study social and environmental reporting and assurance, particularly accounting for biodiversity. I teach Financial Reporting at the undergraduate level and International Financial Accounting and Scandals and Standards at Master's level.