Juan Manuel García-Lara

Juan Manuel García Lara is Full Professor in the Department of Business Administration at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Accounting and Business Research.

Career

• Full Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid since 2016, having joined the university in 2005.
• Head of the Department of Business Administration (2017–2023), which comprises the areas of accounting, finance, management and marketing.
• PhD in Accounting from the University of Valencia.
• Previously, Lecturer at Lancaster University and Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Manchester.

Research

His research focuses on two main areas:

• Accounting conservatism and financial reporting quality: effects on the cost of capital and investment policies, and links with corporate governance, among others.
• Corporate Social Responsibility: gender issues in accounting and finance, and the analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility policies.

His research has been published in journals such as Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Abacus, European Accounting Review, Accounting and Business Research, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance and Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad.

Editorial and professional service

• Co-Editor-in-Chief of Accounting and Business Research since 2016.
• Editorial board member of Journal of Business Finance and Accounting and European Accounting Review.
• Member of the Management Committee of the European Accounting Association since 2021.

Teaching

His teaching experience includes Financial Accounting at various levels, Financial Statement Analysis, Accounting Theory and Accounting Research at the doctoral level. His former PhD students now hold faculty positions at leading international universities.