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Bijan Hesni

Bijan HesniDepartment: Finance and Business Law (FBL), Westminster Business School

Position: Senior Lecturer

Contact:
+44 (0)20 7911 5000
hesnib@westminster.ac.uk

Education

MBA, University of Portsmouth
BA (Hons) in Accounting, University of Porstmouth

Professional memberships

Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW)
Member of Securities & Investment Institute (SII)
Member of Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

Biography

Bijan qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG and worked as a senior auditor before joining the WBS in August 1994 as a Senior Lecturer in Accounting. For many years, he was directly involved with the management of the MBA programm. He is and has been an external examiner on a number of BA and MBA programmes.

Teaching 

Bijan teaches a wide range of subjects including management accounting, financial management, corporate finance, personal financial planning, and auditing at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

In addition to being involved in the delivery of SII training courses since 2005, he also delivers training sessions to senior managers as well as regularly teaching on the residential programs for the University of Salzburg Business Schools MBA and MA in International Business & Management degrees. He has also been a visiting lecturer at the IHEC, University of Tunis.

Research

His research interest is in investigating trends and anomalies in stock market indices. He has presented a number of papers at both national and international conferences.

Consultancy and professional practice

Bijan has for many years been providing accounting, taxation and general business advice to small entities in the South of England on an adhoc basis.

Publications

Conferences

  • A paper entitled Shareholder Value Strategies: Value Creation or Value Destruction? was presented and included in the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Strategic Management, 16-17 January 2010, Tehran, Iran.
  • A paper entitled Linking Strategy to Operations: Challenges in Developing Financial Plans was presented at the 1st International Conference on Strategic Planning & Execution, 9th June 2009, Tehran, Iran.
  • A joint paper entitled Some Evidence on the Existence of Two New Market Anomalies: Christmas Effect & April Effect was presented and included in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference in Management, 19-21 December 2007, Tehran, Iran.
  • A joint paper entitled Testing the Efficient Market Hypothesis An Empirical Study of the UK Stock Market was presented and included in the proceedings of the 4th International Conference in Management, 20-22 December 2006, Tehran, Iran.
  • A joint paper entitled Active Portfolio Management Vs Index Tracking was presented at the 3rd International Conference in Management, 26-28 December 2005, Tehran, Iran.
  • A joint paper entitled Portfolio selection using Goal Programming with Genetic Algorithms was presented at the International conference on Mathematical Programming, 14-19 June 1999, Hammamet, Tunisia.
  • A joint paper entitled 'Optimal Portfolio Selection using Goal Programming'  was presented at the First International Conference in Multi-objectives and Goal Programming Theories and Applications, 1-3 June 1994, University of Portsmouth, and submitted for publication in the proceedings of the Conference.The Paper was also presented at the BAA-ICAEW Doctoral Colloquium at the University of West of England in April 1995.
  • A joint paper entitled A two-staged Goal Programming Application to Portfolio Selection and Analysis was presented at the Operational Research 37th Annual Conference, 12-14 Sept 1995, University of Kent, Canterbury.