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of Business and Finance by Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

Bahaaeddin Alareeni is an Professor of Accounting and Auditing. He did his PhD's thesis in Accounting and Auditing on the relative performance of auditors' going concern ¿opinions and statistical failure prediction models for listed companies in Jordan. His main research interests are in the ¿areas of Auditing, Accounting, the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Internal Audit, Financial ¿Accounting, and financial analysis. He has practical experience in the Accounting profession for more than ten years ¿in different organizations, e.g., banking, NGOs, government sector, and private institutions. He is currently working for the Middle ¿East Technical University (METU) in Turkey - Northern Cyprus Campus, which is one of the top 550 universities in ¿the world based on the QS ranking 2018. ¿

Rim El- Khoury is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Adnan Kassar School of Business at Lebanese American University, Lebanon, with a Ph.D. in International Finance from Sogang University, South Korea. Prior to joining Lebanese American University, she taught at Hanyang University in South Korea and American University of Technology and served as the Finance Discipline Coordinator and the chair of the assessment of the learning at Notre Dame University in Lebanon. She is the recipient of several awards such as the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (2009), Grand winner for Korea Times Magazine Economic Contest (2007), and The Academic Excellence Award from the Korean Government (2006). She is also a reviewer for several prestigious academic journals, including the International Journal of Emerging Markets, Journal of Applied Accounting Research, and Journal of Financial Innovation, among others. She has guest edited special issues for journals such as Strategic Marketing, Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, and Development and Learning in Organizations. She edited books, and she published several peer-reviewed articles in top-ranked academic journals such as Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Borsa Istanbul Review, Small Business Economics.