Dr Sadaf Khan

Dr Sadaf Khan

  • Lecturer
Department of Economics & Finance
SDGs Focus

Biography

Dr. Sadaf Khan obtained her doctorate degree in Accounting and Finance from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). She has been awarded a doctorate fellowship from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She has been affiliated with the various faculty positions for 12 years in different national and international universities, including recent affiliation with Sunway University along with 3 years industry experience in a leading Bank.  She is more focused on students' engagement in research and has supervised post-Graduate thesis at MBA and MS level.  Her core expertise is not limited to Accounting and Finance domain, but her interest touches the boundaries of behavioural judgement and decision making and technological adaptation in these areas. She has renewed research contribution to her credit in national and international ranked journals and conference proceedings. She is an active member of Psychometric Society and Women Who Code Python. She has organized collaborative International Research Conferences between Universities in Pakistan and Malaysia.  She has been invited as a distinguish speaker at varied international platform. She is affiliated with the Mentor- Mente Matching program and serves as a regular judge in poster competition in United States of America.

Academic & Professional Qualifications

PhD in Accounting and Finance, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia (2018)

Research Interests

  • Audit Quality Assurance Practices
  • ESG Reporting - Sustainability Reporting
  • Assurance Issues
  • Corporate Finance
  • Behavioural Finance
  • Ethical Decision Making
  • Women who code Python

Teaching Areas

  • Finance
  • Auditing
  • Quantitative Research Methods
  • Econometrics

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Econometrics
  • Applied Time Series Econometrics

Notable Publications

  1. Rehman, M.A., Khan, S., Osman, I., Aziz, K., & Shams, G. (2021). Revisiting the corporate image through service quality and relationship marketing: empirical evidence from Malaysian and Saudi Arabian Takaful customers. Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research 2021, 12(6), 849-871. (SJR: Q3, ABDC: C)
  2. Mehmood, W., Khan, S., Saleh, T., Khan, J., Din, M., & Khan, S. (2022). Change-Oriented Leadership and Employee’s Participation in Decision Making. An empirical study of the Hospitals operating in KP, Pakistan Indian Journal of Economics and Business, 21(1), 169-185. (SJR: Q2).
  3. Jan, Fayaz A., Sadaf Khan Jehanzeb Khan Wajid Mehmood, and Farman Ullah. Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Job Autonomy. Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government Vol. 28, No. 03, 2022 WOS indexed.
  4. Sadaf Khan, Jahanzeb Khan, Mehmood, Aftab Khattak, Rafiq. Employees and Environmental Performance Approaches Toward a Green Revolution on Firms Sustainability. The Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Governance- 2021 Web of Science Indexed.
  5. Sadaf, Khan, Ubaid Rehman, (2021). Insider Trading Laws and Corporate Governance Impact on Investment Decision. iRASD Journal of Management, 3(2), 126-137 2021
  6. Sadaf Khan, Siti Aisyah binti Panatik, Miasarah Mohamed Saat, Dysfunctional Audit Behaviors: an exploratory study in Pakistan: Published Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology vol. 9(9) pp. 69-951 2015 (SJR: Q3). 

Achievements & Accolades

  1. Advisor – Undergraduate research paper competition at The International Research Competitions (IRC) Philippines 2023.
  2. Fellowship of Economic Psychology and Experimental Economics lab in Saratov Russia to study experimental economics at Laboratory of Economic Behavior of the Center of Psycho-Economic Research 2018.
  3. Best Paper Award at AFAP Conference on Business and Management, Training Centre, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Auditors’ Behavioral Intention towards Dysfunctional Audit Behavior, Applying Theory of Reasoned Action” 2015. 

Professional Associations

  1. Associations of Fraud Examiner
  2. Association of Chartered Certified Accountants 
  3. Psychometric Society