Bassam Abu-Abbas is an Associate Professor at the Accounting & Information Systems Department, College of Business and Economics, Qatar University. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a tax-assessor in the Income Tax Department (ITD) in Amman-Jordan; financial manager in Ministry of Tourism, Amman, Jordan; and A-lAhliyya Irbid University, Irbid, Jordan. In addition to Qatar University, he worked at the following universities after he got his PhD: Al-Ahliyya Amman University, The Arab Academy for Banking & Financial Sciences, University of Bahrain, and Princess Sumaya University for Technology. He has contributed to a number of publications in international reviewed journal. His research interests are in Financial Accounting, International Accounting, Islamic Accounting, and Accounting Information Systems.