Vice President - Membership

Lesley Stainbank 
University of KwaZulu-Natal
School of Accounting
Durban 4041
SOUTH AFRICA
Email: stainbankl@ukzn.ac.za

Lesley Stainbank is a Professor of Financial Accounting in the School of Accounting, and is Dean of the Faculty of Management Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.   She teaches financial accounting mainly at the honours level. She is a co-author of the text book A Student’s Guide to International Financial Reporting which is prescribed by seven universities in South Africa at either the third year- or honours level. She has published in the SA Journal of Accounting Research, Meditari Accountancy Research and Accounting Education: An International Journal. She has presented papers at numerous overseas conferences. Her research interests include accounting education, differential reporting, employee reporting and professional accounting education programmes. She is currently collaborating on an international research project to develop an Accountancy Development Index. 
 
She is a past-president of the Southern African Accounting Association and has also served as the regional chairperson for KwaZulu-Natal.  Currently she is serving on the editorial boards of the SA Journal of Accounting Research and the African Journal of Accounting, Economic, Finance and Banking Research and she is an Editorial Adviser to Accounting Education: An International Journal.