Prof. George Mickhai

Bryant University - Beijing Institute of Technology

Research Area:

Financial Statement Analysis; Management Accounting; Financial Risk; Management; Accounting; Financial Analysis

Brief introduction of your research experience:

Professor George Mickhail is a geopolitical risk analyst who fosters the interaction of business with academe, due to his hybrid educational and professional background in accounting, computer science, operations research and information systems. He is an alumnus of Ain Shams University, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences, The London School of Economics & Political Science, University of Wollongong, and a former Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) Scholar. His research on MetaCapitalism is focused on the geopolitical risks of financial networks. He is an eclectic published author in leading scholarly and professional practice journals. He has also won competitive research funding, fellowships and a former Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholar. In September 2018, he took up his appointment as Professor and Chair of Accounting at Bryant University partnership program with the Beijing Institute of Technology in Zhuhai after 30 years at the Universities of Sydney and Wollongong in Australia. Since 1995, he held visiting professorial and research fellowships at major AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS & IAE FRANCE accredited business schools in France and the United States. Prior to academe, he worked for international accounting firms, InfoTech consulting firms and Global 500 financial services institutions. He is actively involved with the profession, comments regularly on geopolitical economic affairs, and his research is cited in the global press.

Speech Title:

A MetaCapitalism Performance Evaluation Approach of Financial Innovation in the Greater Bay Area.

Abstract:

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an analytical performance evaluation approach of Financial Innovation in the Greater Bay Area.

Design/methodology/approach – The approach employed in this paper seeks to evaluate the corporate structural changes of corporations engaged in financial innovation within the Greater Bay Area.  The assessment of those structural changes involves the fundamentals analytics of the MetaCapitalism efficiency indicators and Earnings Management.  The purpose of the assessment is two-fold: (a) evaluate the sustainability of the structural efficiency changes, and (b) whether those efficiency changes are artificially manipulated to inflate performance or not.  A comparative analysis of those corporations from the Greater Bay Area to their counterparts in the Fortune 500, as well as the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges performance averages will be provided to demonstrate the approach.

Results/findings – It is the contention of this paper that finding a sustainable analytical balance between efficiency and fairness, which is one of the central precepts of Common Prosperity, is so fundamental to the performance evaluation of financial innovation.

Keywords: MetaCapitalism; efficiency measurement; performance evaluation.