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1. KWAME ODURO AMOAKO
PhD (Accounting, New Zealand), Fellow-Chartered Institute of Administrators and Management
Consultants (Ghana), MBA (Accounting, KNUST, Ghana), BBA (Accounting, VVU, Ghana), ICAG (Student
Member),
Dr. Kwame Oduro Amoako holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, an
MBA in Accounting from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana and A Bachelor
of Business Administration in Accounting from the Valley View University, Ghana. He is also a Fellow at the
Chartered Institute of Administrators and Management Consultants (Ghana), a member of the British
Academy of Management (UK) and a student member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana
(ICAG).
Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Accountancy and the Deputy Director for the Quality
Assurance and Academic Planning Directorate. He is a member of the Sunyani Technical University’s
Governing Council (Convocation Representative) and the Academic Board. Kwame has held several other
positions including the Head of the Department of Communication Studies at the Sunyani Technical
University, Ghana.
Kwame has over 13 years of teaching experience in Ghanaian universities and in some universities outside
Ghana, including the Coventry University, UK (Quest lecturer) and the University of Canterbury, New
Zealand. He has over 18 peer-reviewed publications with reputable publishers such as Emerald Insight,
Taylor and Francis, Elsevier, Springer, Inderscience and the World Scientific Publishing Company. Kwame
has presented several research papers at academic conferences in the UK, South Africa, China, New
Zealand and Ghana.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
 Research
Kwame has interest in sustainability and corporate social responsibility reporting, accounting for
extracting natural resources and their social and environmental impacts, auditing research, accounting
education, entrepreneurship and Small and Medium Size (SME) related issues and qualitative research
in accounting.
 Teaching

2. He has teaching experience and interest in Cost and Management Accounting, Audit and Assurance,
Business Research Methods, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Financial and Corporate
reporting, Sustainability reporting, Strategic management.
RECORDS OF RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
Amoako, K.O., Amoako, I.O., Tuffour, J. & Amaning, N. (2022). Contextualising Sustainability Reporting in
Host Communities: An Insight from a Mining Subsidiary in Ghana. In Omeihe, K.O. and Harrison,
C. (Ed.) The African Context of Business and Society: New Frontiers in African Business and Society,
(pp. 137-164). Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited.
Amoako, I. O., Maas, G., & Amoako, K. O. (2021). Entrepreneurship Education in the United Kingdom:
Traditional Teacher-Led Learning Approaches Versus the Experiential Team Academy Model.
In Vettraino, E. & Urzelai, B. (Ed.) Team Academy and Entrepreneurship Education (pp. 69-83).
New York, USA: Routledge Taylor and Francis.
Nyame-Asiamah, F., Amoako, K. O. & Kawalek, P. (2022). Cohered Emergent Theory for designing and
implementing multinational mining sustainability practices in Ghana. In David Crowther, D. & Seifi, S.
(Ed.) The Complexities of Sustainability. Science, Technology and Sustainability: Volume 1. London,
UK: World Scientific Publishing Company.
Journal Articles
Amoako, K.O., Lord, B.R. & Dixon, K. (2021). Narrative accounting for mining in Ghana: An old defence
against a new threat?, Resources Policy, 74, pp. 1-17.
Amoako, K. O., Marfo, E. O., Akwaa-Sekyi, E. K., Amaning, N., & Yankey, N. (2023). Stakeholder
perceptions of sustainability reporting on the websites of technical universities in
Ghana. Benchmarking: An International Journal, 30(2), pp 1-37.

3. Amoako, K.O., Amoako, I.O., Tuffour, J. & Marfo, E.O. (2021). Formal and informal sustainability reporting:
an insight from a mining company’s subsidiary in Ghana. Journal of Financial Reporting and
Accounting, 20(5), 897-925.
Amoako, K. O. (2023). Sustainability reporting on the websites of public and private universities in Ghana,
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 24(2), pp. 1-27.
Awuah, L. S., Amoako, K. O., Yeboah, S., Marfo, E. O., & Ansu-Mensah, P. (2021). Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR): Motivations and challenges of a Multinational Enterprise (MNE) subsidiary’s
engagement with host communities in Ghana, International Journal of Corporate Social
Responsibility, 6(1), 1-13.
Ansu-Mensah, P., Marfo, E.O., Awuah, L.S. & Amoako, K.O. (2021). Corporate social responsibility and
stakeholder engagement in Ghana’s mining sector: A case study of Newmont Ahafo Mines.
International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility, 6(1), pp. 1-22.
Marfo, E.O., Amoako, K.O., Amaning, N., Anim, R.O., & Owiredu-Ghorman, K. (2022). The impact of
accounting on the sustainability practices of small and medium size enterprises (SMES) in Ghana,
Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal, 26(6), 1-22.
Asigbetse, S., Arthur, J. L., Amoako, K. O., Marfo, E. O., & Arthur, S. D. (2022). An Empirical Assessment
of the Nexus between Sectoral Structure, Inflation, Exchange Rate and Economic Growth in
Ghana. Open Journal of Business and Management, 10(5), 2242-2275.
Amaning, N., Kuranchie, A., Amoako, K. O., Marfo, E. O., & Osei-Anim, R. (2022). Investigating the
Auditor’s Adopted Safeguards in Ensuring Audit Quality amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence
from an Emerging Market, East African Scholars Journal of Economics, Business and Management,
5(3), 81-96.
Amoako, K.O., Lord, B.R. and Dixon, K. (2017). Sustainability reporting: Insights from the websites of five
plants operated by Newmont Mining Corporation, Meditari Accountancy Research, 25(2), 186-
215. https://doi.org/10.1108/MEDAR-02-2016-0020

4. Amoako, K. O., Amoako, I. O., & Marfo, E. O. (2018). Comparing sustainability disclosures on corporate
websites: a case study of Newmont Mining Corporation's plant sites in Ghana. International Journal
of Multinational Corporation Strategy, 2(3-4), 241-275.
Marfo, E. O., Amoako, K. O., Antwi, H. A., Ghansah, B., & Mohammed Baba, G. (2017). Corporate Social
Responsibility: Institutional Behavior Differences in Extractive Industry. International Journal of
Engineering Research in Africa, 33, 194-215.
Mensah, O. S., Asiedu-Appiah, F., Amoako, K. O., & Agyapong, J. (2018). The Relationship between
Agribusiness Development and Agricultural Growth: Time Series Data from PR China. American
Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 7(1), 2356-6191.
Amoako, K. O., Marfo, E. O., Gyabaah, E. N., & Owiredu-Ghorman, K. (2017). Achieving a Sustainable
Business: The Role of Environmental Management Accounting in Corporate Governance.
International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences,
7(4), 11-20.
Amoako, K. O., Marfo, E. O., Gyau, K. E., & Asamoah, F. O. (2013). Cash budget: An imperative element
of effective financial management. Canadian social science, 9(5), 188-191.
RESEARCH PAPERS PRESENTED AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
Akwaah-Sekyi, E., Marfo, E. O & Amoako, K.O. (2020). Women in entrepreneurship and regulatory
constraints: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, 2020 Virtual Global Development Finance
Conference, University of Cape Town (Virtual), 18-19 November,2020.
Amoako, K.O., Amoako, I.O., & Tuffour, J. (2020). Contextualizing sustainability reporting in host
communities: An insight from a mining subsidiary in Ghana, UK (Online), BAM Conference in the
Cloud, 2nd -4th September, 2020.
Amoako, K.O., Lord, B.R. & Dixon, K. (2018). Stakeholders’ perceptions about the connection between
Sustainability and Accounting Practices: Insights from mining in Ghana, University of Edinburgh, UK:
12th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, 11-13 July 2018.

5. Amoako, K.O., Lord, B.R. & Dixon, K. (2017). Stakeholders’ perceptions of sustainability and management
accounting in the mining sector: Evidence from Gold Fields Ghana. Christchurch, New Zealand: 11th
New Zealand Management Accounting Conference, 23-24 Nov 2017.
Amoako, K.O., Lord, B.R. & Dixon, K. (2016). Sustainability and environmental reports of a multinational
mining firm: A pilot study. University of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa: The Meditari
Accountancy Research Conference 2016, 28-30 June 2016.
Marfo, E.O &Amoako, K.O. (2013). The industrial Differences of Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting:
An empirical study of Listed Firms in Ghana, a paper presented at the Sino-conference for foreign
Post graduate students, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang-China, Nov 2013.
Amoako, K.O., Lord, B.R. & Dixon, K. (2018). Stakeholders’ perceptions on corporate sustainability
performance in the mining sector: A case study of a multinational mining company operating in
Ghana. University of Essex,Colchester, UK: 2018 Accounting and Accountability in Emerging
Economies (AAEE) Conference.28-29 June 2018.
Amoako, K.O. (2016). Environmental accounting and Decision making of mining industry in
Ghana. University of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa: The Meditari Accountancy
Research Conference-Doctoral Colloquium, 2016,28-30 June 2016.
Amoako, K.O., Lord, B.R. & Dixon, K. (2016). Sustainability and environmental reports of a mining firm in a
multinational mining firm: A pilot study. Christchurch, New Zealand, University of Canterbury ACIS
Postgraduate Students Research Conference 2016, 17-19 September, 2016.
Amoako, K.O. &Marfo, E.O. (2013). Environmental Accounting and The CEOs role in an organization, a
paper presented at the Sino- conference for foreign Post graduate students, Jiangsu University,
Zhenjiang-China, Nov. 2013.
Amoako, K.O., Lord, B.R. & Dixon, K. (2015). Sustainability and environmental reports of a mining firm in
Ghana: A pilot study. Lincoln, New Zealand: 9th New Zealand Accounting Conference, 19-20 Nov
2015.

6. Marfo, E.O & Amoako, K.O. (2013). The industrial Differences of Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting:
An empirical study of Listed Firms in Ghana, a paper presented at the Sino-conference for foreign
Post graduate students, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang-China, Nov 2013.