Dr Helmi HAMMAMI

Senior Advisor to the Dean, Knowledge Transfer, Faculty Outreach & Full Professor

Pôle: Finance and Accounting

Nationalités:

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • Financial Accounting.
  • Managerial Accounting
  • Intermediate Accounting
  • Advanced Accounting
  • International Accounting
  • Financial Analysis
  • Fundamentals of Financial and Managerial Accounting

Graduate

  • International Accounting (IFRS)
  • Fraud Detection and Prevention
  • Artficial Intelligence in Accounting
  • Business Information Consulting
  • School Finance and Resource Management
  • Advanced Financial Analysis
  • Financial Statements Analysis

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. Business Administration (Accounting and Finance), Bocconi University, Italy (2007)
  • M.Sc. Accounting, ISCAE1 Tunisie (Institut Supérieur de Comptabilité et d’Administration des Entreprises) (2001)
  • B.Sc. Accounting, ISCAE Tunisia (1999)

Executive Education:

  • Financial Accounting and Reporting (CPA – US)
  • Introduction to Internal Control
  • Use Excel for Business Decision Making
  • Accounting for Non-Accountants

Certifications :

  • CertIFR (Certificate in International Financial Reporting), ACCA (UK) (2008)
  • General Degree Diploma, Collegio di Milano2, Italy (2006)
  • Certificate in Italian language Proficiency , Italian Cultural Center, Tunisia (2003)
  • Certificate in English Language Proficiency, Bourguiba Institute of Languages, Tunisia (1997)

Research interests

  • Accounting systems in developing countries (special interest in GCC and MENA countries)
  • Financial communication stratégies
  • Accounting education/Accounting history
  • Use of accounting information in decision making (Accounting Information Systems)
  • Alternative accounting systems

Work experience

Academic

  • Full Professor, Finance and Accounting Academic area, Rennes School of Business (September, 2020 – Present)
  • Academic Dean, Rennes School of Business (January 2020 – Aout 2021)
  • Senior Advisor to the Dean for Accreditations, Rennes School of Business (September 2018 – December 2019)
  • Associate Professor, Finance and Accounting Academic area, Rennes School of Business (September, 2017 – August 2020)
  • Assistant Professor, Finance and Accounting Academic area, Rennes School of Business (September, 2014 – August 2017)
  • Head of the Department of Finance and Accounting, Rennes School of Business (Sept 2016 – January 2019)
  • Head of the Department of Innovation and Strategy, Rennes School of Business (Sept 2015- Sept 2016)
  • Acting Head of the Supply Chain Management and IT Team, Rennes School of Business (October, 2014 – Sept 2015)
  • Chair, Department of Accounting and Information Systems – College of Business and Economics, Qatar University (2009 – 2014), Doha, Qatar.
  • Assistant Professor of Accounting., Qatar University (2006 – 2014), Doha, Qatar.
  • Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant., Bocconi University (2004 – 2006), Milan, Italy.
  • Instructor, University of jendouba (2002 – 2003), Jendouba, Tunisia.
  • Instructor, ISCAE Tunisia. (2001 – 2003), Tunis, Tunisia.
  • Visiting Research Fellow., ESA Grenoble (2001 – 2001), Grenoble, France.
  • Research Asssitant, ISCAE Tunisia. (2000 – 2001), Tunis, Tunisia.

Non-academic

  • Founding Member/Consultant, H3_Web_Factory (2012 – 2012), Tunis, Tunisia.
  • Consultant, C.C.F Tunisie (2003 – 2013), Tunis, Tunisia.
  • External Consultant, Ordre des Experts Comptables de Tunisie (2001 – 2002), Tunis, Tunisia.
  • Operations Manager and Coordintaor, SONABAT Construction (2000 – 2003), Tunis, Tunisia.
  • Accountant/Treasury Manager, CHA and CHT (Healthcare) (1996 – 2000), Tunis, Tunisia.

Professional memberships

  • American Accounting Association
  • Association Francophone de Comptabilité (Francophone Accounting Association)
  • Association Tunisienne de Comptabilité (Tunisian Accounting Association)
  • European Accounting Association
  • Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)
  • Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Gestion-Universite-Entreprise (LIGUE – Tunisie)
  • Scientific Accounting Association – Qatar

Intellectual contributions

Referred Articles – Basic or Discovery Scholarship

  • Hunjra. A, Kijkasiwat. P, Arunachalam. M, Hammami. H (2021) Covid-19 health policy intervention and volatility of Asian capital markets. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 169, 120169
  • Aziz, Saqib , Michael Dowling, Helmi Hammami, and Anke Piepenbrink (2021) Machine learning in finance: A topic modeling approach. European Financial Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/eufm.12326
  • Md Abubakar Siddique, Md Akhtaruzzaman, Afzalur Rashid, Helmi Hammami (2021) Carbon disclosure, carbon performance and financial performance: International evidence, International Review of Financial Analysis, Volume 75, 2021, 101734
  • Dowling. M, Hammami. H, Tawil. D, Ousayna.Z (2021), « Structuring energy economics research for impact »., The Energy Journal., Vol 42, N”, 3 (May), pp 29-52.
  • Ngo T, Hammami. H, Tripe. D, VO.D-T, (Accepted), “Ranking with a Euclidean Common Set of Weights in Data Envelopment Analysis: The case of the Eurozone Banking Sector”, Annals of Operations Research. ,
  • Akhtaruzzaman MD, Abdel-Qader W., Hammami. H, Shams S. (Accepted) “Is China a source of financial contagion?” Finance Research Letters
  • Khan H, Hammami. H, Li Hong Shen L. (Accepted), An Empirical Study of Lenders’ Perception of Chinese Online P2P Lending Platforms, Journal of alternative Investments
  • Hammami. H, Hammami. M, Coulibali. S, Marzouk. M (2020), « Determinants of FDI attractiveness: A MCI model approach », Economics Bulletin, Volume 40, Issue 2, pages 1033-1048
  • The Association between Intellectual Capital and Financial Performance in the Islamic Banking Industry: An Analysis of the GCC Banks. Ousama, A.A., Hammami, H., Abdulkarim, M. Published in:International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, Vol. 13 No. 1, pp. 75-93 Date:2020
  • Target costing: adoption and its relationships with competition intensity, intended strategy and firm siz Hammami, H., Al-omiri, M., Bouraoui, T., Ousama, A.A.Published in:Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal, Vol.14, Issue 3, pp 219-245 Date:2019
  • Measuring Internet Addiction in European Knowledge Based Societies: A Case Study of France Khan,H.U., Hammami, H. Published in:International Journal of Business Information Systems, Vol 32, Issue 2, 2019, pp. 199-218 Date:2019
  • Challenging the meaning of globalisation in Tunisian context: Social representation for public accountants Khlif, W., El Omari, S., and Hammami Helmi Published in:Society and Business Review, Volume 14, Issue 4, 2019, pp. 320-337 Date:2019
  • The Application of AAOIFI Accounting Standards: Preliminary Investigation of Islamic Banking Institutions in Qatar and Bahrai Al-Sulaiti, J., Osama, A.A., Hammami, H. Published in:Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, Vol. 9, Issue 4, pp. 549- 566 Date:2018
  • Easy to read, easy to cite? Dowling, M., Hammami, H., Zreik, O. Published in:Economics Letters, Vol. 173, (2018), pp. 100–103 Date:2018
  • Does political Instability affects Exchange Rates in Arab Spring Countries? Bouraoui. T, Hammami. H, Published in:Applied Economics, Vol49, Issue 55, pp 5627-5637 Date:2017
  • Analysing the financial strength of Tunisia: An approach to estimate an Index of Financial Safety. Matkovskyy, R , Bouraoui, T, and Hammami, H Published in:Research in International Business and Finance 38 Date:2016
  • Do users in Qatar perceive intellectual capital information to be value relevant for decision making purposes? Abu Ghaida, Rania , Ousama Anaam, Helmi Hammami, and Obeid Shreim Published in:International Journal of Knowledge management Studies Date:2016
  • Corporate financial reporting in Qatar: a study of individual investors’ assessment of annual reports. Al-Malki, Idris, Helmi Hammami, and Ghassan H.Mardini Published in:Middle-East Journal of Management 2 Date:2015
  • The Determinants of Intention and Usage of DSS in the Academic Environment: A Cross Cultural Study. Alshare, Khaled , Helmi Hammami, and Paggy Lane Published in:International Journal of Services and Standards 10 Date:2015
  • The Use of Reported Cash Flows versus Earnings to Predict Cash Flows: Preliminary Evidence from Qatar Hammami, Helmi Published in:Business Systems Review 1 Date:2012
  • General Learning Approach for Event Extraction: Case of Management Change event. Elloumi, Samir , Ali Jaoua, Ferjani Fathi, Nasreddine Semmar, Helmi Hammami, Romanic. A, JAAM. J Published in:Journal of Information Science 39 Date:2013
  • Earnings Quality of the Qatar Exchange and the U.S. Stock Exchange: Empirical Evidence. Hammami, Helmi , JK Yun, and JJ Kim Published in:International Research journal of Applied Finance Date:2012
  • Accounting Narratives Characteristics and Firm Performance in the MD&As of Listed Italian Companies. Hammami, Helmi Published in:International Journal of Accounting and Finance 3 Date:2011
  • Index Funds in Small Emerging Markets: The Case of Qatar. Ben jelloun, Hichem , Khaled Shams, and Helmi Hammami Published in:International Research journal of Applied Finance 3. Date:2010
  • Perceptions of the Accountant Held By Business Students and Business Professionals in an Emerging Country: The Case of Qatar. Hammami, Helmi and Mohamad Hossain Published in:Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues 3 Date:2010
  • Accounting Education in Developing Countries: Can Expert Systems Be an Alternative/Support to Accounting Professors? Hammami, Helmi and Hassouna Fdhila Published in:Afro-Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting 1 Date:2009
  • Voluntary Disclosure in the Annual Reports of Qatari Companies: An Empirical Assessment. Hossain, Mohamad and Helmi Hammami Published in:Advances in Accounting 25 Date:2009
  • Accounting Education in Developing Countries: Can Expert Systems Be an Alternative/Support to Accounting Professors? Hammami, Helmi and Hassouna Fdhila Published in:Afro-Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting 1 Date:2009

Presentations of Refereed Papers – International

  • Anam, Ousama, Helmi Hammami, and Mustafa Al-Kasih, 2014, Intellectual Capital and Islamic Banks Performance in the GCC., 6th European Conference on Intellectual Capital, 10-11 April 2014, Trnava, Slovak Republic
  • Omiri, Mohamad and Helmi Hammami, 2014, A Survey of The Adoption of Target Costing in KSA Manufacturing: An Empirical Study., European Accounting Association – 37 th Annual Congress, 21-23 May 2014, Tallinn, Estonia
  • R, Ghaida, Ousama Anam, and Helmi Hammami, 2014, Intellectual capital information: The case of Qatar., 014 Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Accounting Association (AAA), 24th -26th April, King of Prussia, USA, Philadephia
  • Ziagelmayer, Jennifer and Helmi Hammami, 2014, Factors affecting student adoption of microblogging tools: A test of competing models., 9th Annual Midwest Association for Information Systems Conference May 15-16, Iowa, USA, Iowa
  • Hammami, Helmi, 2013, Do faculty members perpetuate the stereotype of accountants?, Critical Studies in Accounting and Finance, 15 – 17 December,, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi
  • Al-Share, Khaled, Helmi Hammami, and L Peggy, 2012, The Usage of Decision Support Systems (DSS) in the Academic Environment: A Cross Cultural Study., South West Region – Decision Science Institute Annual Conference, 29 Feb – March 3, New Orleans, United States of America
  • Elloumi, S, Ali Jaoua, F Ferjani, J Jaam, and Helmi Hammami, 2012, A new generic approach for information extraction., Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum, DOHA, Qatar
  • Khlif, W, Helmi Hammami, and S Omari, 2012, Accountants Attitudes Towards Globalization: Content and Determinants of Tunisian Social Representation., XI International Conference on Social Representations, 25-28 June,, Evora, Portugal.
  • Hammami, Helmi and Moez Hammami, 2011, Pair Trading : Méthodes de séléction des séries présentant un retour à la moyenne., Association Française de Statistiques, 43eme Journees De Statistuque, JDS 2011, 23-27 May, Gammarth, Tunisia
  • Hammami, Helmi and Moez Hammami, 2011, Predicting Cash Flows: Reported Cash Flows versus Earnings – Empirical findings from Qatar., European Accounting Association – 34th Congress, 22-24 April, Rome, Italy
  • Jaoua, Ali, J Jaam, and Helmi Hammami, 2011, Information Extraction and NLP Processing in Financial Watch Alerting System., Qatar University Research Forum,31st October, DOHA, Qatar
  • Khlif, W, Helmi Hammami, and S Omari, 2011, Accountants Attitudes Towards Globalization: Content and Determinants of Tunisian Social Representation., Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference, 10-12 July, Florida, Florida, United States of America
  • Hammami, Helmi and M Hossain, 2010, Perceptions of the Accountant By Business Students and Business Professionals in an Emerging Country: The Case of Qatar., Qatar University Annual Research Forum, May 5,, Doha, Qatar
  • Jaoua, Ali, J Jaam, Helmi Hammami, F Ferjani, F Leban, SAMMAMR.N, ESSAFI.H, ELLOUMI.S, 2010, Conceptual Ascendant Feature Extraction of a Financial Corpus., EEE-2010 International Conference Progress in Informatics and Computing (PIC 2010), Dec10-12,, Shanghai, China
  • Jaoua, Ali, J Jaam, Helmi Hammami, F Ferjani, F Lebban, SAMMAMR.N, ESSAFI.H, 2010, Financial Event detection by Conceptual News categorization., EEE-10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems design and Applications (ISDA 2010), Nov 29-Dec 1, Cairo, Egypt
  • Jaoua, Ali, J Jaam, Helmi Hammami, F Ferjani, F Lebban, SAMMAMR.N, ESSAFI.H, 2010, Multilingual Financial Watch Alert System., Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum, Dec12-13, DOHA, Qatar
  • Jaoua, Ali, J Jaam, Helmi Hammami, F Ferjani, F Lebban, SAMMAMR.N, ESSAFI.H, 2010, A Conceptual Approach for Multi-Level Restructuring of Categorized Documents in Corpus., Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum, Dec12-13, Doha, Qatar.
  • Hammami, Helmi, 2009, Perceptions of THE Accountant by professionals and Business Students: A post Crisis Empirical Study from a Developing Country., European Accounting Association – 32nd Congress, Tampere, Finland.
  • Hossain, M and Helmi Hammami, 2009, Voluntary Disclosure in the Annual Reports of the Qatari Companies: An Empirical Assessment., 21st Asian pacific Conference, 22-25 November, Las Vegas, United States of America

Research Reports

  • Hammami, H. & Zramdini, O., 2007, La révaluation des immoblisations: Réferentiel international et étude du contexte Tunisien., submitted to Ordre des Experts Comptables de Tunisie.

Newspaper Articles or Columns

  • Hammami, H, 2014, Liquidity Management and Inflation in Qatar, AL Watan Newspaper – Economy, Nov 23
  • Hammami, H., 2014, How Could Social Networks enhance your business, AL Watan Newspaper – Economy, Nov 3
  • Hammami, H, 2014, Seize the Decade, AB Middle-East and South East Asia Special Edition
  • Hammami, H., 2013, Heat on for Qatar, Accountancy Futures (Publication of ACCA, Interview about Accounting Profession/Education in Qatar).
  • Hammami, H., 2008, Accounting in the world: An overview of accounting in Tunisia, Accounting News, N5, July (Publication of the Qatari Qatari Scientific Association)
  • Hammami, H., 2007, Luca Pacioli or the double entry book-keeping, Accounting News, N3, February (Publication of the Qatari Scientific Accounting Association)
  • Hammami, H., 2000, Importance des sources d’informations comptables pour l’investisseur en bourse Tunisien., La Presse Economique