Magdy Abdel-Kader is Professor of Management Accounting at the University of Bedfordshire. Before joining Bedfordshire, he worked at universities of Brunel, Essex and Exeter. Magdy is also a Visiting Fellow at Brunel University. He is a member of the American, European and British Academic Accounting Associations. He is the representative of the information systems section of the American Accounting Association in Europe. Magdy has been actively involved for several years in the Institute of Industrial Engineers, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences and Decision Sciences Institute.
Professor Abdel-Kader received his PhD from the University of the West of England, Bristol in 1997. He teaches Management Accounting at both undergraduate and graduate levels. His research interests include capital investment decisions, costing systems, fuzzy set theory, game theory, and management accounting systems and his articles and commentaries have been published in journals including Management Accounting Research, British Accounting Review, British Food Journal, Advances in Management Accounting, Financial Management, European Accounting Review, Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, Accounting Education and Journal of Applied Accounting Research. He is the principal author of a book on Investment Decision-Making in Advanced Manufacturing Technology and a book on new product development teams and co-author of books on enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation and management accounting change, non-financial performance measurement, and behavioural aspects of auditors’ evidence evaluation. Dr Abdel-Kader is the Editor-in-Chief of the World Journal of Financial Management (http://journals.wesro.org/index.php?code=wjfim).