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Recent and upcoming courses

Spring 2025

• ACCT 515: Financial Statement Analysis
• ACCT 515G: Financial Statement Analysis
• ACCT 620: Management Accounting

Summer 2025

• ACCT 311: Intermediate Accounting I

Biography

Odunayo Olarewaju is resident at the Accounting department, Metro State University. She has more than 12 years of university/college teaching experience across Nigeria, South Africa, United Kingdom, and United States of America. She has been involved in extensive teaching, research, and community service activities. She has mentored or supervised undergraduate and graduate (masters, doctoral, and postdoctoral) students’ research on various research topics in Accounting and Finance to successful completion. To her credit, she has more than 75 publications (journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings) and she has successfully edited 4 books with diverse contributors from around the world.

Professionally, she is an associate member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants CPAs; a full member of American Accounting Association; a financial and managerial accounting associate (FMAA) under the Institute of Certified Management Accountants; a fellow chartered accountants—FCA under the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN); fellow higher education academy, under the Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom; a business accountant in practice under the Southern African Institute for Business Accountant (SAIBA); and a chartered management accountant and chartered global management accountant under the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

Recent Publications:

• Agoba, A.M. & Olarewaju, O.M. (2025). Foreign aid towards accelerated economic growth in Africa: the role of independent central banks, political institutions and monetary integration. African J. Economic and Sustainable Development, 10(1), 41–71.
• Nzama, S., & Olarewaju, O. M. (2025). Examining how corporate environmental strategies influence the management of plastic pollution in food and beverage firms. Asian Journal of Water, Environment and Pollution, 7089.
• Ganda, F., & Olarewaju, O. (2025). The Impact of Water and Energy Performance on Waste Performance in South African JSE‐Listed Companies. International Journal of Energy Research, 2025(1), 9642568.
• Msomi, T.S & Olarewaju, O. M. (2024). Evaluating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises’ Resilience in South Africa. Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia.
• Msomi, T. S., & Olarewaju, O. M. (2024). Navigating the Green Frontier and Sustainable Innovation in the Dynamic Business Landscape. In Waste Management and Life Cycle Assessment for Sustainable Business Practice (pp. 241-268). IGI Global Scientific Publishing.
• Nzama, S., & Olarewaju, O. M. (2024). Assessing the Impact of environmental information disclosure on plastic waste management in food and beverage firms. International Journal of Development and Sustainability,13(9), 827-851.
• Olarewaju, O. M. & Msomi, T.S (2024). Examining the Interface factors affecting Research Output of Accounting Academics in African Universities of Technology. Accounting and Financial Control Journal, 5(1), 93-108.
• Msomi, T. S., & Olarewaju, O. M. (2024). Navigating the Green Frontier and Sustainable Innovation in the Dynamic Business Landscape. In Waste Management and Life Cycle Assessment for Sustainable Business Practice (pp. 241-268). IGI Global Scientific Publishing.

• Nzama, S., Olarewaju, O. M., & Arise, O. A. (2023). Evaluating the Influence of Barriers to Environmental Sustainability on Environmental Management Accounting in the Food and Beverage Manufacturing Firms in Durban, South Africa. The Journal of Accounting and Management, 13(1), 79-88.

  Recent Presentations

• Exploring the Managerial Power Perspective on Agency Costs and Executive Compensation: Insights from North America's Food and Beverage Sector - College of Business & Management DBA research Day, April 5th 2025
• Managing Family – Book Launch at Bloomington, Minnesota, USA. October 26th 2024
• Journey to American Citizenship – Resident Organized against Racism (ROAR), Waconia, Minnesota, USA. October 24th, 2024.
• Advances in Management Accounting - Global FinTech Innovations, Durban University of Technology, South Africa. April 17th, 2024. Virtual
• Global FinTech Innovations: Transforming Management Accounting and Finance, Management College of Southern Africa (MANCOSA), Durban, South Africa. May 28th, 2024. Virtual

Recent Awards and Honors:

• Top Accountant under 40 under the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), May 4th, 2024.
• Outstanding Contribution in South Africa, CIMA Research Excellence Award 2021. CIMA - Excellence Awards (cimaglobal.com)

Research Focus

Financial management, financial policies, business finance, financial decisions and accounting theory, sustainability and environmental accounting, investment, and divestment decisions.