Hairul Azlan bin Annuar obtained his BSc (Hon) degree from the University of East London UK, MBA degree with specialization in Islamic banking and finance from the International Islamic University Malaysia and PhD degree from Cardiff University, UK. Upon completion of his PhD he returned to Malaysia in February 2009 to continue serving the Department of Accounting, Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences as an Assistant Professor. He has published his work in a number of reputable journals such as the Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, Managerial Auditing Journal and the Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change among others as well as reviewing articles submitted for publication in such journals as Social Responsibility Journal and Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research. He is also actively involved in numerous research projects utilizing internal grants from the Research Management Center of the university as well as an external grant from the Ministry of Higher Education, in the area of Corporate Governance.

Presently, Dr. Hairul Azlan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Accounting since September 2014, where he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Corporate Governance and Management Accounting. His research interest lies in the area of corporate governance. He also holds the position of the Head of the Internationalization of the Kulliyyah. He had also gained valuable industry experience working in international firms such as Ericsson and IBM prior to becoming an academician in 2000.

• Economics, Business And Management ~ Economics, Business And Management ~ Accounting ~ Management Accounting (Including Strategic Management Accounting, Performance Management, Cost Management, Management Accounting Control System) - Management Accounting
• Economics, Business And Management ~ Economics, Business And Management ~ Accounting ~ Corporate Governance (Including Accountability, Ethics, Integrity) - Corporate Governance

MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING	2023/2024
USRAH IN ACTION 2	2023/2024

Completed

2022 - 2023	Quadruple Helix Network to Empower Youth & Single Mother for Sejahtera Community
2022 - 2023	YSM Agropreneurs Incubator Project
2022 - 2022	KAJIAN PASAR BERBANGUNAN / PUSAT PENJAJA DEWAN BANDARAYA KUALA LUMPUR (DBKL) TIDAK BERDAYA SAING
2021 - 2022	Importance of Islamic Social Capital Information: A Study of Baitul Mal Wat Tamwil Annual Reports in Indonesia
2021 - 2022	CAPACITY BUILDING THROUGH FINANCIAL LITERACY AND SKILLS TRANSFER PROGRAMME AMONG YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS & SINGLE MOTHERS IN RCE GREATER GOMBAK
2020 - 2022	Women on Boards and Firm Performance of Malaysian Listed Companies Post Implementation Period
2018 - 2019	Financial Sustainability of Islamic Saving, Credit Cooperative Society (SACCOS) in Tanzania
2017 - 2019	Governance Mechanism and Audit Fees in Islamic Banking Institutions in Malaysia
2015 - 2019	Governance of Malaysian Listed Companies
2014 - 2017	The Impact of the Reduction in Corporate Income Tax Rate on Firms' Value: The Role of Corporate Governance
2013 - 2015	Corporate Ownership Structure and Corporate Tax Aggressiveness : A Malaysian Evidence
2013 - 2014	Qualitative Investigation Into The Evolution of Management Accounting Tools in Malaysian Public Listed Companies
2010 - 2012	Corporate Strategy: Should Accountants be Involved

On-Going

2023 - Present	Corporate Governance: Concept and Practice
2023 - Present	Relationship of Corporate Governance on Directors' Remuneration of Listed Small and Medium-Scale Companies in Malaysia
2015 - Present	Board Diversity, Religiousity And Firms? Value: Analysis Of Shariah Approved Companies, Islamic Financial Instituition (Ifls)

29 Jul, 2011

IIUM Research, Invention and Innovation 2011 - IIUM

University

Article

2021	The influence of the SSB’s characteristics toward Sharia compliance of Islamic banks. Cogent Business & Management, 8 () pp. 1-20
2020	Difficulties in being responsible institutional investors: evidence from Malaysia. Social Responsibility Journal, 16 (4) pp. 507-520
2020	Difficulties in being responsible institutional investors: evidence from Malaysia. Social Responsibility Journal, 16 (4) pp. 507-520
2019	An investigation into the financial sustainability of Islamic Saving, Credit Cooperative Society (SACCOS) in Tanzania. International Journal of Ethics and Systems, 35 (2) pp. 242-259
2019	Overlapping memberships on the audit and other board committees: impacts on financial reporting quality. Asian Journal of Accounting Perspectives, 12 (1) pp. 49-77
2019	Women directors and firm performance: Malaysian evidence post policy announcement. Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences, () pp. 1-14
2018	Intellectual capital efficiency and corporate book value: evidence from Nigerian economy. Journal of Intellectual Capital, 19 (3 (Special Issue: Intellectual Capital of Africa: Issues, Programmes, Perspectives)) pp. 644-668
2018	Malaysian corporate tax rate and revenue: the application of Ibn Khaldun tax theory. ISRA International Journal of Islamic Finance, 10 () pp. 251-262
2018	Malaysian evidence supporting theoretical integration of roles of non-executive directors. Asian Journal of Accounting Research, 3 (1) pp. 2-14
2018	The impact of corporate governance on the financial, governance and social disclosures at Islamic banks in Malaysia. Journal of Islamic Finance, 7 (1) pp. 9-25
2017	Corporate governance effect on firms' performance - evidence from the UAE. Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences, 33 (1) pp. 66-80
2017	Determinant of human capital disclosure in the post IFRS regime: An examination of listed firms in Nigeria. Malaysian Accounting Review, 16 (1) pp. 1-20
2017	Disclosures and perceptions of practitioners on items of financial and social reporting index developed for Malaysian Islamic Banks. International Journal of Business in Society, 18 (3) pp. 563-578
2017	Intellectual capital disclosure and corporate market value: Does board diversity matter?. Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, 7 (3) pp. 369-398
2017	Managing the impact of international financial reporting standards on audit and non-audit fees: Some empirical findings and ethical discussions. International Journal Business Management, 2 (2) pp. 1-17
2017	The moderating effect of board homogeneity on the relationship between intellectual capital disclosure and corporate market value of listed firms in Nigeria. International Journal of Economics, Management and Accounting, 25 (1) pp. 71-103
2016	Intellectual capital and information asymmetry: recent evidence from Nigerian economy. Malaysian Journal of Business and Economics, 3 (2) pp. 61-77
2016	The formulation of financial, governance and social index of Malaysian Islamic Banks: an integrative approach. Risk governance & Control: Financial Markets & Institutions, 6 (1) pp. 64-70
2015	An investigation of the control role and effectiveness of independent non-executive directors in Malaysian public listed companies. Managerial Auditing Journal, 30 (6/7) pp. 582-609
2015	Changes in ownership forms and role of institutional investors in governing public companies in Malaysia: a research note. Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change, 11 (4) pp. 455-475
2015	Foreign investors’ interests and corporate tax avoidance: evidence from an emerging economy. Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics, 11 () pp. 138-147
2015	The effect of award on CSR disclosures in annual reports of Malaysian PLCs. Social Responsibility Journal, 11 (4) pp. 831-852
2014	Corporate ownership, governance and tax avoidance: an interactive effects. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 164 () pp. 150-160
2014	Implications of Shariah on the voluntary disclosure of Indonesian listed companies. Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting, 12 (1) pp. 76-98
2014	Independent non-executive directors strategic role - some evidence from Malaysia. Corporate Governance, 14 (3) pp. 339-351
2014	The involvement of accountants in corporate strategy in Malaysia: a stewardship theory perspective. Corporate Ownership & Control, 11 (3) pp. 130-143
2013	Measures of corporate tax avoidance: empirical evidence from an emerging economy. International Journal of Business and Society, 14 (3) pp. 412-427
2013	Social capital and selection criteria of independent non-executive directors: some evidence from Malaysia. International Journal of Behavioral Accounting and Finance, 4 (1) pp. 54-73
2012	Are there barriers to independent non-executive directors' effectiveness in performing their roles?. International Journal of Commerce and Management, 22 (4) pp. 258-271
2010	Issues on takaful affecting the choice of accounting policies: a case study of two takaful companies in Malaysia. International Business Research, 3 (3) pp. 187-193
2009	Some evidence of environmental reporting by Shari'ah compliant companies in Malaysia. IIUM Journal of Economics and Management Sciences, 17 (2) pp. 177-208
2005	Al Wakalah and Customers’ Preferences toward It: A Case Study of Two Takaful Companies in Malaysia. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 22 (1) pp. 28-49
2004	Al Wakalah and its impact on the growth and performance of Takaful companies: a Malaysian case. The European Journal of Management and Public Policy, 3 (1) pp. 82-117

Conference or Workshop Item

2020	Women on boards and firm performance in Malaysia - post implementation period. In: 6th International Conference on Accounting, Business and Economics 2020 (ICABEC),
2019	Directors’ remuneration in listed small and medium scale firms: does corporate governance matter?. In: 5th International Conference on Accounting and Finance 2019,
2018	Financial sustainability of Islamic saving, credit cooperative society (SACCOS) in Tanzania. In: International Conference on Religious, Culture, and Governance in the contemporary world (ICRCG 2018),
2018	Proposed governance principle and procedure for a university endowment fund. In: The 2nd Islamic Management Development Conference (IMDeC 2018) : The Evolution of Islamic Management,
2017	Corporate tax (CT)rate and CT revenue in Malaysia – Laffer curve: An autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach. In: FGIC 2107 1st Conference on Governance and Integrity,
2017	Disclosure of Shariah related information in Islamic cooperatives: a case study on Baitul Maal Wat Tamwil (BMT). In: 4th International Conference on Management and Muamalah 2017 (ICoMM 2017),
2017	The positive effect of Malaysia government corporate tax reduction initiative on public listed companies’ revenue: a longitudinal study. In: 4th International Conference on Management and Muamalah 2017 (ICoMM 2017),
2016	Governance mechanisms and disclosure among Malaysian Islamic banks. In: 11th International Conference on Islamic Economics and Finance (ICIEF),
2016	Women on boards and firm performance: Malaysian evidence. In: Putrajaya International Conference On Children, Women, Elderly And Disabled People,
2015	Government ownership and the association between corporate governance and CSR in the UAE. In: 9th International Conference on Business Management and Legal Studies (ICBMLS),
2014	Foreign investors' interests and corporate tax avoidance: evidence from an emerging economy. In: Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics (JCAE) Symposium 2014,
2014	Government ownership and corporate tax avoidance: empirical evidence from Malaysia. In: International Conference on Emerging Trends in Scientific Research,
2014	Management accounting practices in Malaysia: a qualitative enquiry. In: International Management Accounting Conference 7 (IMAC VII),
2013	Measuring corporate tax avoidance: An empirical evidence. In: 10th Asian Academy of Management International Conference 2013,
2013	Ownership structure and corporate tax aggressiveness: A conceptual approach. In: International Accounting Business Conference (IABC 2013),
2013	The impact of IFRS adoption on audit fees: Evidence from Malaysian listed companies. In: The 14th FourA (Asian Academic Accounting Association) Annual Conference 2013,
2012	Qualitative examination into the management accounting tools in use in petronas: evolutionary or traditionally steered?. In: International Management Accounting Conference 6 - Managing Innovation and Sustaining Excellence,,
2012	Quantitative examination into the involvement of accountants in corporate strategy in malaysian public listed companies: a stewardhsip theory perspective. In: 3rd Global Accounting And Organizational Change Conference 2012:,
2011	Voluntary disclosure and company characteristics of Indonesian listed company: comparison of Shariah and non-Shariah compliant company. In: 5th IIUM International Accounting Conference (INTAC V),
2010	Barriers to Independent Non-Executive Directors’ Effectiveness in Performing Their Roles. In: 2nd International Conference on Arab-Malaysian Islamic Global Business and Entrepreneurship,
2006	Role of non-executive directors in Malaysian public listed companies: background, literature, methodology and initial findings. In: 2nd International Conference on Business, Management and Economics,

Book Section

2022	The concept of Islamic brotherhood and “Silaturahim‟ as a catalyst of social entrepreneurship and unity of the Ummah.. In: Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences, ISBN: 978-967- 26219-5-9., pp. 81-89
2019	Disclosure of Shariah related information in Islamic cooperatives: a case study on Baitul Maal Wat Tamwil (BMT). In: USIM Press, ISBN: 9789674406660, pp. 362-466
2019	Effective board governance structure for a University Endowment Fund. In: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, ISBN: 978-981-13-7583-5, pp. 3-17

Monograph

2019	Governance mechanisms and audit fees in Islamic banking institutions in Malaysia. In: ,
2019	The impact of corporate governance on executive directors’ remuneration of listed small and medium scale firms in Malaysia. In: ,
2012	Corporate strategy: should accountants be involved. In: s.n,