Renata Stenka
Associate Professor
Accounting
Henley Business School University of Reading
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr. Renata Stenka is currently an Associate Professor in Accounting at Henley Business School. She is a member of the School Management Board and a Programme Area Director for Postgraduate Studies in Accounting and is involved in the development and delivery of several postgraduate courses. She holds a visiting research position at the Institute of Finance at the University of Lugano in Switzerland and she has been involved in the delivery of the postgraduate accounting, finance and banking programmes. She completed her PhD in financial accounting at the University of Liverpool in the UK and prior to moving to Henley Business School she held her first academic position at Keele University, UK. Prior to that she studied at the University of Szczecin in Poland and the University of Odense in Denmark where she was awarded a national scholarship by the Danish government to proceed to her doctoral research. She has published in Accounting and Business Research and is a recipient of awards from the British Academy for her research projects.
Research Interest
Her current research interests consider convergence and compliance issues relevant to the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) worldwide with the specific focus on the political and institutional aspects of accounting change and regulation. Her work also explores rhetorical functions of the narrative and numerical aspects of financial disclosures. She is involved in a collaborative work with scholars from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
Publications
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Alexander, D. and Stenka, R. (2013)Capturing meaning construction in financial disclosure. In: Discourses Approach to Financial Communication, 2-6 February 2014, Ascona, Switzerland.
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Churyk. N, Stenka. R. Accounting for Complex Investment Transactions. Journal of Accounting Education, Vol. 32, Issue 4 (2014).
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Stenka, R. and Kokot, P. “Numbers in Motionâ€, Financial Reporting and Business Communication Annual Conference, Bristol, July 2015.
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Stenka, R. and Kokot, P. “The multidimensional character of accounting numbersâ€, Alternative Accounts Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada, April 2015.
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Stenka, R. and Grossi, G. “For the public without the publicâ€, International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK, March/April 2015.
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Stenka, R. and Kokot, P. “Accounting as interpretive framingâ€, British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Annual Conference, Manchester, UK, March 2015.
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Stenka, R. “Discourse in international accounting standard setting: legitimacy viewed through a Bourdieusian lensâ€, American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Conference, Atlanta, US August 2014
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Stenka, R. and Ormond, P. (2008) The impact of IFRS adoption in the UK: issues in group accounting. In: Venu , L. (ed.) Convergence to International Financial Reporting Standards – Country Perspectives. ICFAI University Press, pp. 117-141. ISBN 9788131415641
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Stenka, R. and Taylor, P. (2010) Setting UK standards on the concept of control: an analysis of lobbying behaviour. Accounting and Business Research, 40 (2). pp. 109-130. ISSN 2159-4260 doi: 10.1080/00014788.2010.9663387
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Churyk, N. T. and Stenka, R. (2014) Accounting for complex investment transactions. Journal of Accounting Education, 32 (4). pp. 58-70. ISSN 0748-5751 doi: 10.1016/j.jaccedu.2014.08.001 (Natalie Tatiana Churyk, Renata Stenka, Accounting for complex investment transactions,)
