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Chairman, Auditing Special Interest Group of British Accounting & Finance Association (BAFA)

Member of the Executive Committee of the BAFA

American Accounting Association - Auditing Section & Teaching Section 

British Accounting Association - Auditing Special Interest Group  European Accounting Association

European Auditing Research Network

Member of the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre for Business Management and Accountancy

The effect of non-audit fees and industry specialization on the prevalence and accuracy of auditor’s going-concern reporting decisions

Editorial: Special issue on the future of audit—A collection of personal reflections

Effects of the Big 4 national and city-level industry expertise on audit quality in the United Kingdom

Letter to the UK Parliament on the Future of Audit

Partner industry specialization and audit pricing in the United Kingdom

Financial Accounting: The Basics

Financial Accounting: A Practical Introduction

Dr Basioudis is senior lecturer/associate professor of Financial Accounting & Auditing in the Accounting Department at Aston Business School at which he is also the research convenor. 

He is the chairman of the Auditing Special Interest Group of the British Accounting and Finance Association (since 2006). 

Ilias is also fellow of the UK Academy of Higher Education and Certified Management & Business Educator (provided by CABS). 

He is also the interim editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Auditing. He has also been external examiner in various universities, currently in Portsmouth and Oxford Brookes.

Ilias was recently invited to an FRC workshop on audit market competition and in 2019 provided oral evidence to the UK Parliament, as an expert witness, to the BEIS Select Committee in their UK Parliamentary inquiry on the Future of Audit.

He is author of many research articles regarding audit quality, auditor reporting, auditor specialisation, and accounting education. 

He has chaired the organising scientific committee of the highly successful annual UK Audit & Assurance Conference since 2006 and has been co-organiser of the inaugural Audit & Assurance for Listed and Non-Listed Entities Conference in Melbourne Australia since 2020.

He moved to Aston University from Warwick Business School in 2000, having taught a variety of subjects from 1996, completing his PhD in 1999. 

He has been a member of various committees at Aston University (including being the director of the Higher Education in Learning and Management (HELM) Centre (2011-2014), and the director of the Accounting for Management (2002-2008)). 

Ilias has held short teaching and research visiting appointments at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in ALBA Greece, in RMIT, Australia and in Deakin University, Australia. 

He is a member of the editorial board of the Auditing: a Journal of Practice and Theory journal, and an ad-hoc reviewer of various academic journals and international conferences.

He teaches mainly financial accounting and auditing at graduate and undergraduate levels. His research interests lie primarily within the area of auditing and corporate governance and include the market for audit services in the private and public sectors, earnings quality and audit quality, corporate governance and audit committees, the regulation of accounting, the accounting profession.

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