ZEESHAN GHAFOOR
Associate Professor
Education
- CFA Level II Candidate On Going CFA Institute Charlottesville V.A USA
This is a Chartered Financial Analyst program, which is a world-class graduate-level Charter of Finance, located in Charlottesville V.A USA. I have registered for the Level 2 exam to be held in November 2023.
- PhD (Finance) “3.61 CGPA” Year 2019 C.U.S.T Islamabad
The title of the thesis is “Voluntary Disclosure, Enterprise Risk Management, Culture and Stock Price Synchronicity. I have been honored by the Dean’s Honor Roll for excellent performance in both consecutive semesters of course work.
- MS (Finance) “3.66 CGPA” Year 2012 Riphah Int’l University
My research thesis was on the topic ‘Financial Reporting and Decision-Making Perspective, which is in the domain of Issues in Financial Reporting.
- PGD (Ethics and Education) “3.05 CGPA” Year 2013 Riphah Int’l University
This is the Post-Graduate Diploma in Professional Ethics and Teaching Methodology, which is a formal training of Academia.
- MBA (Finance) “3.43 CGPA” Year 2007 Riphah Int’l University
- A (Stats & Economics) Year 2005 Punjab University
- Certificate in Islamic Capital Markets Year 2020 CIMA U.K
“This is a certificate in Islamic Capital Markets and Instruments offered by CIMA U.K”
- Professional Development Course in Islamic Finance ongoing Australian Centre for Islamic Finance
- Certificate in Financial Modelling Course Ongoing Udemy 365 Careers
Certificate in Islamic Insurance Year 2019 IRTIx
Publications
Publications
- Ahmed, I., Mehmood, O., Ghafoor, Z., Jamil, H., Majeed, A (2023). Corporate Governance and the Choice between Bank Debt and Public Debt. Corporate Governance, Impact Factor 5.6 as per Clarivate Analytics 2023. Scopus Q1 and ABS 2.
- Tabassum, S., Ghafoor, Z., & Shareef, A. (2023). Influence of CEO gender on corporate risk-taking and capital allocation efficiency. NUST Business Review, 5(1), 1-20
- Ahmed, W., Ghafoor, Z., & Majeed, A. (2023). Herding Because of Bayesian Learning/Informational Cascades or Social Pressure? An Experimental Study. UW Journal of Management Sciences, 7(1), 89-113
- Ahmed, I., Ghafoor, Z., Khan, M. A., Jamil, S. H., & Majeed, A. (2023). Financial Development and Firm Leverage in Pakistan: Conventional and Islamic perspective. Islamic Banking and Finance Review, 10(1), 69-108.
- Ghafoor, Z., Ahmed, I., & Hassan, A. (2022). Audit committee characteristics, enterprise risk management and stock price synchronicity. Managerial Auditing Journal, 37(1), 69-101. Impact Factor 1.96 as per Clarivate Analytics 2023. ABDC A & ABS 2.
- Ahmed, I., & Ghafoor, Z. (2022). Audit committee characteristics and debt choice: evidence from the S&P 500. Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting/Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad, 51(4), 505-528. Impact Factor 1.1 as per Clarivate Analytics 2023. ABDC B & ABS 1.
- Hashmi, S. D., Gulzar, S., Ghafoor, Z., & Naz, I. (2020). Sensitivity of firm size measures to practices of corporate finance: evidence from BRICS. Future Business Journal, 6(1), 1-19.
- Majeed, A., Ahmed, S., & Ghafoor, Z. (2018). Does Cultural Diversity of Board of Directors and Audit Committee Dynamics Affect Firm Performance? Evidence from Firms in Karachi Meezan Index. Journal of Islamic Business and Management, 8(2).
- Ghafoor, Z., & Hassan, A. (2018). Voluntary Disclosure, Enterprise Risk Management and Stock Price Synchronicity: Evidence from Shariah Compliant and Non-Shariah Compliant Companies. Journal of Islamic Business and Management, 8(1).
- Jaffari, A. A., & Ghafoor, Z. (2017). Predicting Corporate Bankruptcy in Pakistan A Comparative Study of Multiple Discriminant Analysis (MDA) and Logistic Regression. Research Journal of Finance and Accounting, 8(3), 81-100.