Stefano Azzali

Full Professor in Accounting and Business Administration at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Parma, Italy. He is teaching Financial Accounting, International Accounting and Consolidated Financial Reporting courses at the Faculty of Economics of Parma. From 1988 to 2003 he worked (teaching and research) in Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.
He is Director of the PhD in “Accounting and Business Administration" (University of Parma).
He is scientific coordinator of several researches sponsored by Minister of Italian University and many other public and private sponsor in the area of “Financial accounting”, “International accounting” and “Consolidated Financial Reporting”, “Internal control over financial reporting”, “Finalcial reporting in public administration”.
The main research areas are focused on: 1. Earning quality; 2. Audit quality 3. Earning Management; 4. Groups Accounting and the Consolidated Financial Statement in Italy and at International level; 5. Internal control system over financial reporting; 6. Financial reporting in Public administration and in non profit organization. He published widely in these fields, both monographs and articles. Componet of the following scientific commettee: The annals of The Stefan Cel Mare University, University of Suceava (Romania); Rivista "Contabilitate expertiza si audited afacerilor", Corpul Expertilor Contabili si Contabililor, Bucarest (Romania); Knowledge Horizons, Legal and socio economic sciences, Editor: Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest, Romania