Ana Isabel Lopes, Ph.D., is a full time Assistant Professor of the Accounting Department at Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) and integrated member of the researcher center BRU/UNIDE, in Lisbon (Portugal). She has experience in teaching in doctoral and master programs, executive education, and undergraduate programs, engaging in courses related with financial accounting and business reporting, management control in multinationals, and consolidated financial statements. Currently, she is Director of the MSc program in Accounting and she is the Executive Director of the post-graduation in Finance and Accounting Applied. She has an extensive experience in coordinating programs in high education institutions. She also supervises doctoral and master students' dissertations. She is active in presenting conference papers in national and international congresses (by submission or invitation). Her research interests cover international financial accounting and reporting, integrated and sustainability reporting, business combinations, and corporate governance. Ana Isabel has published in leading academic journals such as 'Australian Journal of Management', 'European Business Review', 'Accounting Education', 'Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting', 'Journal of Economics and Business', and 'Meditari Accountancy Research'.

Assistant professor at ISCTE-IUL since September 2012 in the financial accounting field. I got a PhD in Management with specialization on accounting in September of 2012. I am Professor of courses of financial accounting in undergraduate and master programs. My research fields interest are in earnings quality, auditing quality and value relevance.

Helena holds a PhD in Accounting and Finance from Lancaster University, UK. She is full professor of accounting at Iscte Business School in Lisbon, and previously worked at Bayes Business School in London. She had visiting positions at the University of Miami in the US, where she was a Fulbright Research Scholar, and at Sydney University in Australia. Her research interests are on financial markets, corporate governance and international financial reporting. Helena participates regularly in top international conferences such as meetings of the European Accounting Association, American Accounting Association, and European Finance Association. She is often invited to speak at seminars, conferences, and doctoral meetings of prestigious European and US universities. Helena's research has been published in top journals in accounting and finance, such as the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, European Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance, and Journal of Business Ethics. Her research findings have been used by international organizations dealing with corporate reporting issues, such as the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), the CFA Institute, and the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG). Helena serves the community taking roles in various committees of the European Accounting Association, as associated editor of the journals European Accounting Review and Accounting Business Research, and as a member of evaluation panels for recruitment and for PhD grants. During her career, Helena managed various research projects funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation FCT, participated in an European Training Network, and won several awards including Best European PhD thesis in Management by EDAMBA, best conference papers, and best reviewer. Helena has also been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to develop a one year research project at the University of Miami in the US.

Ilídio Tomás Lopes Nasceu a 18 de janeiro de 1966, no concelho de Abrantes. É atualmente professor do "Iscte Instituto Universitário de LIsboa" e membro associado a "Bru_iscte Business Research Unit" da mesma instituição. É também docente do Mestrado Executivo em Gestão Empresarial do "Iscte_Executive Education". Docente da Pós Graduação em Economia e Regulação de Instituições Financeiras do Ipps_iscte. É atualmente: Diretor do "Audax_iscte"; Membro do Conselho Fiscal da Novartis Farma - Produtos Farmacêuticos, SA. Presidente do Conselho Fiscal da "Associação Iscte Conhecimento e Inovação" e Membro do Conselho de Supervisão da OROC - Ordem dos Revisores Oficiais de Contas. Foi Administrador Não Executivo, Membro da Comissão de Auditoria e Membro do Comité de Governo da Sociedade, do Banco BIC Português, S.A. (EuroBic). Doutor em Gestão de Empresas, Especialidade em Contabilidade (Universidade de Coimbra, 2009), Mestre em Estatística e Gestão de Informação (ISEGI, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2001) e Licenciado em Organização e Gestão de Empresas (ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, 1990). Docente do ensino superior desde 1994, foi docente da Escola Superior de Gestão e Tecnologia do Instituto Politécnico de Santarém (1997 a 2013), tendo exercido nos últimos anos o cargo de diretor da referida instituição. Foi ainda docente em regime de colaboração da Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra (2006 a 2011). Atualmente responsável por diversas unidades curriculares entre as quais: Auditoria; Auditoria Financeira; Avaliação da Performance Financeira; Contabilidade Financeira II; Contabilidade Bancária. Desempenhou ainda cargos de gestão em diversas empresas multinacionais. Autor de várias publicações científicas, membro de diversos comités científicos nacionais e internacionais e revisor de artigos para revistas científicas nas áreas da Gestão e da Contabilidade. Autor dos livros "Controlo de Gestão: Uma Visão Integrada do Desempenho Empresarial" (Edições Almedina, 2019, 2020), "Contabilidade e Finanças para Gestores Não Financeiros" (Edições Almedina, 2020), "Auditoria Financeira: Do controlo Interno ao Controlo Externo Independente" (Edições Almedina, 2019, 2022), "Contabilidade Financeira: Preparação das Demonstrações Financeiras, sua Divulgação e Análise" (Escolar Editora, 2013, 2017, 2021), "A Gestão do Capital Intelectual e dos Intangíveis na Era do Conhecimento" (Escolar Editora, 2013) e "Contabilidade Financeira: Exercícios Resolvidos e Propostos" (Almedina Editores, 2017, 2019). Co-autor do livro "Das Sociedades: Aspetos Contabilísticos e Fiscais" (Escolar Editora, 2016), entre outros. Tem publicado em diversas revistas internacionais, entre as quais: Measuring Business Excellence; International Journal of Business Excellence; Contaduría y Administración; International Journal of Disclosure and Governance; International Journal of Business Performance Management; Business: Theory and Practice. As suas principais áreas de interesse são: 1. Contabilidade Financeira; 2. Governo das Sociedades; 3. Auditoria e Controlo Interno; 4. Gestão Financeira e Performance; 5. Avaliação do Risco e Compliance.

Inna Paiva (PhD) is Assistant Professor in the Instituto Univeritário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL).  She has experience in teaching in master’s programmes and programmes for executive education, and engages with courses related to financial accounting, business reporting and public accounting.  She also supervises master’s students’ dissertations and has made various presentations in in international scientific conferences and authored papers and book chapters. For several years, she was the director of the Master’s in Accounting and Taxation and the Bachelor’s Degree Course Accounting, Taxation and Auditing in the Universidade Lusófona. Her research interests lie in the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards, accounting quality and family firms. She has published her research in book chapters and in journals such as the Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, the  Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting, the Review of Accounting and Finance. She has also published a text book: Contabilidade Pública - As Novas Demonstrações para Relato em Sistema de Normalização Contabilística para as Administrações Públicas/ Public Accounting - The New Report Statements in the Accounting Normalization System for Public Administration  and she is the author of practical case studies in the text book Fundamentos de Contabilidade Financeira: teoria e casos/ Foundations of Financial Accounting: theory and case studies.

Isabel Lourenço é Professora Catedrática e Diretora do Departamento de Contabilidade do ISCTE-IUL. É doutora em Gestão (especialização em Contabilidade) pelo ISCTE-IUL. Tem cerca de 30 anos de experiência no ensino de temas de contabilidade em vários programas académicos (Licenciatura, Mestrado e Doutoramento) e programas de formação executiva no ISCTE-IUL. É professora visitante da Universidade de São Paulo, onde leciona regularmente nos programas de mestrado e doutorado em contabilidade. Tem também lecionado e realizado apresentações em seminários de outras universidades no Brasil e em universidades de outros países, incluindo a Universidade de Glasgow, a Universidade de Coventry e a Universidade de Lille. É Investigadora Integrada na Business Research Unit do ISCTE (BRU-IUL). Apresenta regularmente os resultados da sua investigação nas mais prestigiadas conferências científicas internacionais. É autora de vários artigos científicos publicados em revistas científicas de referência a nível internacional, incluindo, por exemplo, a European Accounting Review, Accounting and Business Research, Accounting Forum, Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies e Journal of Business Ethics. É também autora de mais de 10 livros de contabilidade. Tem desempenhado um papel importante nos órgãos que regulam a contabilidade em Portugal. É Coordenadora do Comité de Normalização Contabilística Empresarial da Comissão de Normalização Contabilística. É também membro do júri do Exame de Admissão à Ordem dos Revisores Oficiais de Contas. Atualmente, é também membro do Conselho Fiscal da Payshop e da IMGA.

Jonas Oliveira holds a PhD in Accounting from the School of Economics and Management, University of Minho, Portugal. He is an Associate Professor of Accounting at ISCTE-IUL Business School, Lisbon. He has previously worked at the University of Aveiro as Adjunct Professor of Accounting. His research interests are corporate risk reporting, enterprise risk management, corporate governance mechanisms, impression management strategies used in corporate reporting, sustainability and integrated reporting. He publishes academic articles regularly in some internationally well-recognized journals such as the Managerial Auditing Journal, Meditari Accountancy Research, Australian Accounting Review, Corporate Communications: an International Journal, European Business Review, and Journal of Risk. 

José Dias Curto is full professor at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL Business School, Quantitative Methods Departament) and investigator at Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal. He earned his PhD in Quantitative Methods for Management from the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), MA in Management from Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) and Bachellor's degree in Economics from Instituto Superior de Economia, Portugal. His primary research focuses statistics and econometrics with applications to finance, accounting and economics. List of journals where he published: Research in International Business and Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Annals of Economics and Finance, Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research Journal, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money, Statistical Papers, International Statistical Review, European Accounting Review, Australian Accounting Review.

Maria João Major (publication name, Maria Major) is Full Professor of Management Accounting and Control at ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon, Portugal). She holds a PhD from the University of Manchester, UK and a Post-doc from the Manchester Business School, UK. Maria João was visiting researcher fellow at Alliance Manchester Business School, UK in 2016 and at Griffith University, Australia in 2001. She has published in academic journals such as ‘Management Accounting Research’, ‘European Accounting Review’, ‘Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal’, ‘Accounting, Organizations and Society’, 'Financial Accountability & Management', ‘Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management’ and ‘Public Money and Management’, among others. Maria João is also the author or co-author of several books and international book chapters. She is on the editorial board of ‘Qualitative Research on Accounting and Management’, ‘Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change’, ‘Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management’ and earlier on the editorial board of the ‘European Accounting Review’. She is additionally active in refereeing articles for a number of leading accounting journals. Maria João has served as member of scientific committees in several international accounting conferences. She was the convenor of ‘Manufacturing Accounting Research (EIASM) 2016’ and of the ‘European Network for Research on Organizational and Accounting Change (ENROAC) 2011’ conferences. Aditionally, Maria João has received teaching awards as best professor. Prior to joining ISCTE-IUL she was Associate Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics where she taught in the PhD, Master, Bachelor and Executive Education programmes.    

Doutorado em Contabilidade e MBA em Gestão, pelo ISCTE-IUL, Pós-Graduado em Finanças, pelo CEMAF-ISCTE e Licenciado em Organização e Gestão de Empresas, pela UML. É coordenador das Unidades Curriculares de Fiscalidade, Fiscalidade Empresarial, Gestão Fiscal das Empresas, Princípios e Procedimentos de Contencioso Tributário e de Tributação de não Residentes. É Diretor do Mestrado em Gestão do ISCTE-IUL e Diretor da Pós-Graduação em Gestão Fiscal do INDEG-ISCTE.