Dr Julia Smith
Reader
Accounting and Finance
Personal statement
Dr Julia Smith started her academic career in the Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance and the Firm (CRIEFF), Department of Economics, University of St Andrews, in 1993, as a Research Assistant, Associate then Fellow. She worked on a number of research projects under the guidance of the Director of CRIEFF, Professor Gavin C Reid. She then went on to a Postdoctoral Research appointment with Professor James Foreman-Peck, at the Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford, where she was also a member of St Antony's College. From there, Dr Smith moved to Cardiff Business School, University of Wales Cardiff, where she was a Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in the Accounting & Finance Division. She has been a Reader in Accounting & Finance at the University of Strathclyde since 2006.
Dr Smith's research interests are in the area of management accounting, venture capital, and small business. She has worked on interdisciplinary projects with academics in accounting, finance and economics. Her current research covers work on management accounting in SMEs, venture capital decisions in high-technology investments, and entrepreneurial orientation in social enterprises. She has recently been funded by the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme DEA scheme (Paris) for visiting scholars, to develop research collaborations in France. She has also been awarded $13,850 from the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), New Jersey, for a project on 'Making the case for business investment'.
Dr Smith is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA), A Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) and was a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, manufactures and commerce (FRSA, 2000-23), and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her teaching interests are in management accounting, financial management, and accounting & financial management for smaller enterprises. Until March 2022 she was Director of Research for Accounting & Finance at Strathclyde, and on the Faculty and University Research Committees.
She was recently on research leave as an academic visitor at the University of Angers and Visiting Professor at ESSCA School of Management in Angers, France.
Prize And Awards
- Chartered Global Management Accountant
- Recipient
- 31/1/2012
- Article of Merit for distinguished contribution to management accounting
- Recipient
- 2002
- Chercheuse invitee du programme DEA
- Recipient
- 2022
- Articles of Merit Award Program for Distinguished Contribution to Management Accounting
- Recipient
- 2005
Publications
- Using accounting measures of (in)tangibility for organizational classifications
- Cardao-Pito Tiago, Smith Julia A, da Silva Ferreira Joao
- Quantitative Finance and Economics Vol 5, pp. 325-351 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.3934/QFE.2021015
- The impact of strategy, technology, size and business environment on the organizational form of small firms in China
- Reid Gavin, Smith Julia, Xu Zhibin
- Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting Vol 20, pp. 15-32 (2020)
- https://doi.org/10.9734/ajeba/2020/v20i430330
- Decision-support and visualising tools for making good accounting decisions
- Reid Gavin C, Smith Julia
- British Accounting & Finance Association Annual Conference with Doctoral Masterclasses 2024 (2024)
- Research Handbook on Accounting and Information Systems
- Smith Julia
- Research Handbooks in Accounting Research Handbooks in Accounting (2024)
- Visualizing tools for supporting accounting decisions : simplifying the complex
- Reid Gavin, Smith Julia
- 2024 Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting: Research Conference, IMA Doctoral Colloquium, and CGMA Teaching and Practice Symposium (2024)
- Decision-support for entrepreneurial firms : making the best business investments
- Reid Gavin, Smith Julia
- 2024 Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting: Research Conference, IMA Doctoral Colloquium, and CGMA Teaching and Practice Symposium (2024)
Teaching
Dr Smith's teaching interests are in: management accounting, financial management, and accounting & financial management for smaller enterprises. She is currently Director of the MSc in International Accounting & Finance (January intake) and responsible for PhD applications in Accounting at Strathclyde.
Professional Activities
- European Journal of Management Studies (Journal)
- Editorial board member
- 9/2021
- Institut Français d’Ecosse (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 8/2021
- British Accounting & Finance Association Annual Conference with Doctoral Masterclasses 2024
- Participant
- 8/4/2024
- 2024 Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting: Research Conference, IMA Doctoral Colloquium, and CGMA Teaching and Practice Symposium
- Participant
- 4/1/2024
- ESRC Peer Review College (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 2024
- External Examiner UG Programmes in Accounting - University of Edinburgh
- Examiner
- 2023
Projects
- Making the business case for investment in new technologies: a cost-benefit analysis
- Smith, Julia (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024
- Memorandum of Understanding between Center for Innovative FinTech Business Models, National Cheng Kung University Tainan, Taiwan and Centre for Financial Regulation and Innovation
- Smith, Julia (Principal Investigator)
- Based on the principles of mutual benefit, both institutions intend to explore opportunities for:
(a) Movement of research faculty, scholars and staff between two institutions;
(b) Research collaboration in the fields with mutual interest between research faculty, scholars and staff of both institutions;
(c) Exchange and sharing of academic and teaching materials, publications, reference and other pertinent FinTech information;
(d) All of the above with special reference to the cultural, economic, ethical, political and social implications of contemporary technology in the global context. - 29-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2024
- Applying the Stated Preference Approach to the Study of Financial Reports
- Smith, Julia (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2014 - 30-Jan-2014
- Accounting, Accountability and Entrepreneurial Thinking in the Third Sector: a UK case study
- Smith, Julia (Principal Investigator) Neal, Thomas (Post Grad Student)
- 01-Jan-2013 - 31-Jan-2016
- Transparency in the Valuation of Intangibles
- Smith, Julia (Principal Investigator) Cordina, Renzo (Post Grad Student)
- 01-Jan-2010 - 31-Jan-2014
- SEMINARS IN ACCOUNTING FINANCE AND ECONOMICS (SAFE)
- Smith, Julia (Principal Investigator) Reid, Gavin (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2006 - 31-Jan-2008